It was a tie for Chelan’s best dressed award at Galway’s Thursday jogs
The Galway horse trials and CIC three-day starts competition today with dressage and show jumping for the CIC divisions. As a quick jog report from Thursday afternoon, Chelan said that there were no holds in the CIC3* and 14 riders move on to the dressage. The WEG pair of Hawley Bennet-Awad and Ginny lead a great group of competitors today in California eventing. Chelan will keep us posted from Galway on the ground and we will have complete recaps each day and link to the best Galway coverage throughout the interweb.
[Galway live scores, Thursday press release]
Now for some quick news and notes:
Morning update: Boyd Martin fancies a feline
Ben Hobday’s latest Badminton blog
–In addition to Galway, there are 4 other USEA events this weekend. The Feather Creek horse trials in Oklahoma start today, and the link to live scores is below. Area 2 gets back into action with the Morven Park spring horse trials. FENCE horse trials in South Carolina and Rocking Horse in FL round out the weekend’s schedule. Most of the 3* and 4* horses have the weekend off waiting for The Fork next weekend.
—“‘Horsey’ makes your bicycle look like a horse”…and you look like a tool [via @carrotsandbute]
–People who know me know that I am not exactly a bark-wearing naturalist, but I love animals and also simple solutions to problems. TheHorse.com has a cool post about installing bird houses and using Swallows to control the insect population in your barn. Cheap, natural, animal friendly–I like it. [TheHorse.com]
–Buck Davidson Texas clinic report [USEA]
–Dressage rider Simone Stanzel-Kunze tragically took her own life Friday, March 25th near her home in Bad Nauheim. At 42 years old, Simone was one of Germany’s most successful small tour dressage riders. [Eurodressage via B]
–Mary King and her daughter are on ERS this week. [ERS]
—Best of the Blogs: Bringing the horse back to *work after rest*
How to catch a hard to catch…mini (?):
–Good luck to all of the competitors around the world of eventing today. Have fun and keep the hoof side down. Stay tuned throughout the day for Galway updates and all of your other eventing news, commentary, and ridiculousness. As always, wherever you may be, thanks for making Eventing Nation part of your day.
