It’s been a picture perfect California weekend at Copper Meadows, a fitting wrap up for Area VI’s last FEI event of the spring season. But it isn’t the ribbons that brings everyone out, weekend after
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All week long, the suspense has been killing us: Who was going to win the most Canadian trophy of them all? In the end — actually, all the way from the beginning — it was
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Beau Guimond and Filibuster ST grabbed the Bromont CCI1* dressage lead and never let go, besting a field of 32 horses with a final score of 42.4. The 20-year-old from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into show
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The first order of business, of course, is who passed and who didn’t. So we’ll run through that quickly and then get down to real talk, including but not limited to the fact that Waylon
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In 1976 Oswaldo Mendez was a 19-year-old kid on a 6-year-old horse representing his home country of Guatemala in the Olympics. He was competing in show jumping, which that year was held in Bromont and
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Could it have been a more magical day for horse sport? I’m still in disbelief that a real live Triple Crown winner is walking the earth. Like the Bromont eventers we surveyed yesterday, I was
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Who cares that his name is misspelled? We don’t. The scientists couldn’t correctly predict that American Pharoah would end the 37-year Triple Crown drought, but we don’t need to put our a’s before o’s to
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Yesterday’s Bromont CCI1* dressage leaders didn’t budge an inch during today’s cross-country competition. The top three pairs — Beau Guimond on Filibuster ST, Will Coleman on Butch Cassidy, and Lucia Strini on My Royal Cooley
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When it comes to “floaty-boat” warmbloods, to revisit the made-up adjective I used to describe Marilyn Little’s RF Overdressed on Thursday, you just never know. Sometimes the springs in the dressage ring translate into mad
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The new Hugh Lochore designed Copper Meadows cross country course seemed to produce either a great round or a not-so-good one. Time, as always, played a factor out on course, with no double clears on
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Double-clear cross-country rounds are gold here at Bromont and Emily Beshear produced one of only three of them with Shame on the Moon in the CCI3* today. Emily told us yesterday that she came here
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Morning came early for the riders in the upper divisions at Copper Meadows. While the CIC1* completed both dressage and stadium yesterday, the remaining FEI and horse trials divisions shifted schedules to show jump early in
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Everyone knows that it’s terrible idea to hang one’s hopes and dreams on a horse — especially a 3-year-old, kinda-broke thoroughbred that would rather be playing grab-tail with his buddies in a field than getting
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Copper Meadows proved once again yesterday why it is a favorite of eventers of the West, despite the sometimes very long drive! Those coming from Northern California often drive approximately 10 hours to reach the
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Cross-country morning has dawned early and bright here at Bromont International. It’s a beautiful day here in Quebec — the horses will appreciate the cool breeze, and everyone will enjoy the sunshine. I love cross-country
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In what may be the most bizarre EN cross-country preview since John’s infamously nauseating course run videos of yesteryear, we sent Le Chinch off to test-ride the Bromont CCI3* course. He reported back that the
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Welcome back to Ramona, California, where Area VI is wrapping up their spring FEI season at Copper Meadows. It’s Friday out west, which means it’s a beautiful day for dressage! The atmosphere at Copper is
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CIC 3* Coursewalk With Hugh Lochore Copper Meadows June 2015 Frankie Thieriot and Ride On Video have teamed up again this weekend to bring us some great video coverage from Copper Meadows. Frankie chatted with
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Canadian Jessica Phoenix won the CCI3* here last year and now teammate Selena O’Hanlon is doing her part to ensure that the crown stays on home turf. She and Foxwood High laid down a seamless
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At this point in the season, we are probably getting a sneak preview of the pairs who might be contesting the inaugural CCI3* at Rebecca Farm, as Copper Meadows is the last Advanced and three-star
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Entries closed this week for the inaugural Great Meadow International CIC3*, and we have a very exciting lineup of horses and riders slated to compete June 19-21 in The Plains, Virginia. In addition to the
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Ryan Wood had a pretty solid Thursday. He and Woodstock Bennett set the pace in the CCI2*, sharing the lead with Sharon White throughout the morning and ending up tied for fifth at the end
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Like seriously, I think the horse has springs on its feet. RF Overdressed is a fresh-off-the-boat German-bred Hannoverian, the sort of floaty-boat warmblood that puts you in a trance when it enters the ring. Video
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