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U.S. Weekend Preview:
Alhambra Fall Event (Alberta, Canada): [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Aspen Farms International H.T. (Yelm, Wa.): [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Flying Cross Farm H.T. (Lexington, Ky.): [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
GMHA September H.T. (South Woodstock, Vt.): [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times]
MeadowCreek Park H.T. (Kosse, Tx.): [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times]
Otter Creek Fall H.T. (Wheeler, Wi.): [Website] [Entry Status]
Stone Gate Farm H.T. (Hanoverton, Oh.): [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Unionville CCI4*-S (Unionville, Pa.): [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times]
The Event at Skyline (Mount Pleasant, Ut.): [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times]
Major International Events:
CHIO Aachen CCIO4*-S (Aachen, Germany): [Website] [Schedule and Scoring] [Entries] [Live Stream] [EN’s Coverage]
Blenheim Palace International CCI4*-L/CCI4*-S (Oxfordshire, UK): [Website] [Entries] [Live Scores] [Live Stream] [EN’s Coverage]
News From Around the Globe:
Tamie Smith hasn’t seen much of her home in California this year. She left in mid-February to campaign a string horses on the East Coast eventing circuit in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympic Games. After a brief trip home, she was selected as a Tokyo alternate for the U.S. Eventing Team with her top horse Mai Baum. That selection sent her back east for a mandatory outing, then on to Aachen, Germany, for training and quarantine before heading to Tokyo as the team’s traveling alternate. Since then, she’s been back and forth to California and Europe with more horses, including Danito and Solaguayre California. Now she’s representing Team USA at Aachen with Mai Baum. [Ringside Chat with Tamie Smith]
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Just 15 Super Satisfying Horse Care Videos
Horses don’t sleep much, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need it. Horses that don’t get enough deep sleep—the kind that requires lying down with the whole body or at least the head against the ground—can collapse from fatigue. Horses spend about six hours sleeping every 24 hours, and most of that sleep happens during the night. All equids have a soft tissue “stay apparatus” that locks their legs so they can sleep standing up, but that only allows a light, slow-wave sleep, Houpt said. Horses also spend about 25% of their sleeping time in rapid eye movement (REM) or dream sleep—around an hour and a half a day in many short bouts, she added. When they enter REM sleep, they need to be lying down, because all their muscles—including the stay apparatus—relax. [What Happens To Sleep Deprived Horses?]
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