King’s Temptress The rain gave way just in time for the jog this morning. All the horses that jogged were accepted but sadly Michael Pollard did not present Wonderful Will. Sandhills Tiger was held but
...» Read More!Good morning Eventing Nation and welcome to a rainy Sunday morning at Rolex. As miserable as the weather might be today, I’m very thankful that the rain waited through Saturday to show up again. If
...» Read More!Have I ever said before how much I love the internet? By the powers of the almighty interweb we can get on demand video replays of the Rolex cross-country for everyone who didn’t get to
...» Read More!As tempted as I am to make this post all about Mary, William and Oliver who all sit in the top 10 overnight after fantastic clear rounds, it’s actually about one of Eventing Nation’s sponsors,
...» Read More!Sinead Halpin confirmed the promise she’s been showing all spring, and in fact for the last few years, piloting her lovely french chestnut, Manoir de Carneville into 4th place overnight, the 2nd french horse in
...» Read More!Photo of Mary and Urco by Samantha Clark The cross-country was incredibly influential today and Mary King took advantage by adding just 8 penalties between two horses. Mary now leads Rolex aboard King’s Temptress behind
...» Read More!Experience showed when Mary King blazed round the cross country this morning on her homebred mare King’s Temptress, storming into the lead, and never let go as I write this. I caught up with her
...» Read More!Photo of Boyd and Remi by Samantha Clark Well, Rolex is not riding like a dressage competition, as they say. Just 8 out of 21 starters came home clear in the morning session at Rolex
...» Read More!The morning session has almost finished and the course has claimed it’s fair share of scalps. While I was out walking and watching, I bumped into Doug Payne pretty early on, and then I saw
...» Read More!Click on the map for a larger version Good morning Eventing Nation and welcome to cross-country day at Rolex. The first horse is on course at 10am, there’s a lunch break at 12pm and then
...» Read More!Buck Davidson is sitting well down the order after the dressage on Titanium, but as all the riders concur, Rolex 2011 is not going to be a dressage competition. As Buck proved with his 21st
...» Read More!Mary King and Fernhill Urco With a young talented rider topping the Rolex leader board in her second 4* and three British horses in the top 6, Rolex almost has the feel of Badminton a
...» Read More!William Fox-Pitt is not only undeniably one of the best riders in the world, but also one of the most popular, which means that he has hordes of fans who want to know everything about
...» Read More!Tiana and Finian Tiana and her exquisite gray gelding Ringwood Magister put together a beautiful test this morning to take the dressage lead with only 10 more pairs to compete this afternoon. Ringwood Magister looked
...» Read More!I was sitting in the grandstands finishing up my dressage recap post Thursday afternoon and I looked up to see a young man proposing to his girlfriend. It was quite the scene with water trucks
...» Read More!The Sunday Night Football NBC trucks are at Rolex Here are your Rolex Thursday links to all of the great coverage across the interweb: USEA Thursday Dressage Photos The Chronicle’s dressage report Derek di Grazia
...» Read More!I was very lucky to meet Clare this afternoon; she may possibly be one of the busiest girls here at Rolex 2011, but also one of the luckiest, and what a great ambassador for the
...» Read More!Peter Barry and Kilrodan Abbott of Canada At the beginning of the day if you looked at the Thursday lineup, Allison and Arthur stood out as the top dressage pair and the results showed that
...» Read More!Kristin Bachman and Gryffindor With only 12 riders on the schedule, dressage flew by Thursday morning here at the Kentucky Horse Park. The loyal fans who got out here nice and early today were rewarded
...» Read More!Reese Koffler-Stanfield got dressage underway at the Kentucky Horse Park, performing the test ride at the Rolex 2011 Three Day Event presented by Bridgestone. Reese is a popular local Grand Prix dressage rider who trains
...» Read More!Not supposed to be a water jump Greetings Eventing Nation! If only because we have all been soaking wet at least once today, the weather is on everyone’s mind here at the Kentucky Horse Park.
...» Read More!In a morning that had already seen every horse entered at Rolex evacuated to the Alltech Indoor Arena, the trot-up was delayed an hour, and then ran the gamut weather-wise, beginning in a downpour, and
...» Read More!Well friends, the Rolex course has just been officially opened. The riders will be trying to sneak out between predicted storms this afternoon to see as much of the course as they can, but Samantha
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