Photo by Erin Gilmore Photography.
Exciting news for all of you AEC competitors: your photo galleries are now online thanks to the hard work of the Erin Gilmore Photography team! The shot above is one of the most epic shots from the “Starter Olympics”, which gave riders the opportunity to ride on the hallowed grounds of the Kentucky 5* and get shots such as this one in front of the Rolex Stadium. You can shop for your gallery of photos here.
U.S. Weekend Events
Five Points H.T. (NC): [Website] [Entries / Ride Times] [Scoring] [Volunteer]
Flora Lea Fall H.T. (NJ): [Website] [Entries / Ride Times] [Volunteer]
CDCTA Fall H.T. (VA): [Website] [Entries] [Volunteer] [Scoring]
Major International Events
Defender Burghley: [Website] [Entries] [Timing & Scoring] [Burghley TV] [Tickets] [EN’s Coverage]
Friday News & Reading
It’s important to know your horse’s body condition, as nutrition is a vital part of keeping our horses healthy for whatever their path in life is. But scoring a body condition can be challenging for untrained eyes. This primer from The Horse might help.
If you ask an eventing fan, they can probably name a handful of Thoroughbreds that can hang with the warmbloods on the first day of eventing competition. Can the Thoroughbred breed “measure up” to the warmbloods in both eventing dressage and pure dressage? One judge thinks so (and we agree!). Read more here.
Speaking of Thoroughbreds, one of them danced their way to a low 30s score yesterday at Burghley, and that’s one plucky OTTB named Phelps. Read up on he and Mia Farley’s journey to Burghley here.
Making a show like the AECs run without a hitch is no small feat, just ask any organizer. This is a great breakdown of what goes into organizing a massive event like this. Bottom line: organizers deserve all of our kudos and respect (and on time entries!).
We are wishing Zoe Archer all the best after she was seriously injured in a fall while trying a horse on cross country earlier this week. “Yesterday when trying a horse XC, we had a very unlucky rotational fall resulting in me breaking my nose, lacerating my liver and my lung partially collapsing with a pneumothorax,” Zoe, who rides for Barbados and competed in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2018 and 2023, wrote on Instagram. “I am extremely lucky to be here today and I am so grateful for the protection my body protector and my helmet provided me with.”
Sponsor Corner: Stable View
Stable View’s Oktoberfest is just around the corner! You can always find some great food, vendors, and activities on site at one of our favorite venues in Aiken, and Oktoberfest is their opportunity to really pull out the stops. Learn more and get those entries in here.
Video Break
Ride around the Training course at AECs!
