After cross country, Michael Jung is leading the Luhmühlen CCI4* on fischerRocana FST, a 9-year-old mare contesting her first four-star, not that this should surprise any of us. He set out looking very determined to go double
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What a day! At the conclusion of cross country at Luhmühlen, Phillip Dutton is sitting in the top five with Mighty Nice, and Boyd Martin is sitting seventh with Shamwari 4 and 17th with Otis Barbotiere
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Luhmühlen officials have confirmed that Liberal, a 15-year-old gelding owned by Clare and David Comey and ridden by Tom Crisp, died following a presumed aortic rupture after fence 7. After the jump, the horse appeared to
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Guten morgen from Luhmühlen! We’re about 30 minutes out from the start of cross country, and it’s a brisk, chilly morning with a light drizzle falling on and off — perfect conditions for the horses. Kai
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1. The spectators practically rushed the judges’ boxes when Andrew Hoy’s score was mistakenly posted as a 41.0 on the board — much too low considering poor Rutherglen nervously pranced his way through the test. It
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Six riders wore helmets in the CCI4* dressage yesterday at Luhmühlen, and an addional six donned their crash hats today: Kate Wood of New Zealand; Wills Goodhew of Great Britain; our own Boyd Martin and Phillip Dutton;
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Lucinda Fredericks and Flying Finish have posted a score in the 30s in each of the four-stars they’ve contested as a pair, and they continued the trend today with a 38.7 to hold the overnight lead at Luhmühlen.
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With Mr. Medicott out of World Equestrian Games contention, Phillip Dutton needed to make a strong statement to the selectors at Luhmühlen today with Mighty Nice. They had to follow Lucinda Fredericks and Flying Finish, who
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Now that’s more like it! Boyd Martin shook off yesterday’s rocky test with Otis Barbotiere to deliver under the pressure of impressing the selectors, scoring 47.8 with Shamwari 4 for seventh place with one group left to go
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Gillian Rolton, Ernst Topp and Alain James are already feeling more generous on the second day of dressage at Luhmühlen. The judges didn’t award a single 9 yesterday, and they’ve already posted two today in the first
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Guten tag from the second day of dressage at Luhmühlen. We had beautiful weather yesterday, but our good luck finally ran out when the skies opened up this morning. So Chinch and I hunkered down in the
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The German edition of the CCI4* events kicked off yesterday with the first horse inspection, where all horses were successfully moved on to the dressage portion of competition. While Boyd was still favoring his mending
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That’s a wrap on the first day of dressage here at Luhmühlen. There’s a lot that goes unsaid when I’m manically typing reports and snapping photos all day — not to mention shooting the shakiest video since
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The times they are a-changin’. Five years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single helmet on dressage day at an FEI competition. Now more and more big-name riders are strapping on their crash hats
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I said in my report from earlier today that the judges were in for a real treat with Elaine Pen and Vira, and this pair did not disappoint, scoring 43.2 to ultimately hold the overnight lead
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Boyd Martin and Otis Barbotiere were fourth out this afternoon at the start of the first day of dressage here at Luhmühlen, scoring 58.5. That’s fairly marked, as you’ll see in the video of the
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It’s another beautiful day at Luhmühlen, and with CCI4* dressage not starting until 1:30 p.m. local time, Team USA took advantage of the lovely morning to get in some dressage schooling. Boyd Martin was first out
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After the FEI provisionally lifted the competition bans on Jock Paget and Kevin McNab following a tribunal meeting, Kevin McNab has been added to the list of riders on the Luhmühlen start list. Kevin will
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As we reported earlier today, all 53 horses that presented at the first horse inspection at Luhmühlen passed. We already awarded Best Dressed as a tie between Jonelle Price and Ingrid Klimke and the Best Ermahgerd Face
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Boyd Martin said earlier today while walking the Luhmühlen cross-country course that he intended to jog Shamwari 4 and Otis Barbotiere at the first horse inspection this afternoon. But his leg is still not quite 100
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Guten tag from Luhmühlen! Chinch and I landed in Hamburg early this morning and came straight to the event to hit the ground running on covering the final selection trial before the U.S. selectors name the World Equestrian
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Luhmühlen week is here, and the competition is especially fierce this year. With many pairs re-routing from the muddy conditions at Badminton, the entry list is positively stacked with top competitors. Combine that with the fact
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The final selection trial to determine the U.S. team for the World Equestrian Games is almost upon us in Germany, where Boyd Martin and Phillip Dutton will be making their best case for a spot
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