Following the completion of Longines Luhmühlen this weekend, the German Olympic Equestrian Committee (DOKR) has named its final nominated list of competitors for the Paris Olympics in July. While the “Block 1” of rides is
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A big crowd gathered at Aspen Farms Horse Trials in Yelm, WA Saturday afternoon to watch the inaugural CCI4*-Short division take on the show jumping track designed by Chris Barnard of Florida. Supporters, sponsors, competitors,
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Talk about unsociable: despite last night’s party raging on until nearly three in the morning, and German party tunes still ringing in everyone’s ears, this morning’s duo of final horse inspections at Luhmühlen still, rather
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After the soggy excitement of the morning’s CCI5* cross-country at Luhmühlen, the afternoon’s sunny Meßmer Trophy CCI4*-S felt almost relaxed, despite a red-hot field vying for Olympic selection and a tough, technical track with a
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For the last eighteen months or so, I’ve felt my grasp on eventing journalism slacken in favour of something else – something I’d never planned. These days, I feel, I need to engage less and less
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Aspen Farms Horse Trials in Yelm, WA started with a full day of dressage competition under fair skies. More than 300 competitors from throughout United States Eventing Association Area VII and beyond are competing this
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And so we reach the midpoint of the 5* season – Adelaide, Kentucky and Badminton are in the rearview, and there’s just three more to come after this week. But right here, right now, Luhmühlen’s
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The competition is well underway at Luhmühlen, with the dressage done and dusted and the cross country looming large. Tom McEwen’s not a big lad, but says he struggled to fit through the skinnies himself,
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It’s very nearly cross-country day at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, and once again, course designer Mike Etherington-Smith has built two beautiful, horse-friendly, technical courses that are just as useful at developing inexperienced talent as
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Yesterday’s first day of dressage in Luhmühlen’s CCI5* saw none of the 21 initial riders clinch a sub-30 – and today, they were nearly as hard to come by. At the close of this phase, just
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The second day of the Meßmer CCI4*-S at Luhmühlen arrived with a bang – because today, many of the class’s heaviest hitters, and those vying the hardest for spots on their respective Olympic teams in
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Is this a touch of deja-vu we’re feeling here? Last year, we saw Laura Collett take the first-phase lead with London 52 in Luhmühlen’s five-star, and then hold it all the way through to take
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Just one year ago, then-21-year-old Anna Lena Schaaf made her debut in Luhmühlen’s CCI4*-S – a class which, as the host of the German National Championships, is one of the most prestigious in the country. And
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After Adelaide, Kentucky, and Badminton comes our hump-day CCI5* — Longines Luhmühlen! Much like our time ’round Kentucky this spring, we are seeing a few of our biggest names tackling the CCI4*-S Meßmer Trophy this
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Welcome to the fourth CCI5* of the 2024 season – and forgive us for a moment for a bit of wildly unprofessional total partiality, because the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials really is one of EN’s
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THE COMPETITION: There are two key competitions taking place this week: the Longines CCI5*-L, which is the fourth five-star of 2024, and the Meßmer Trophy CCI4*-S, which incorporates the German National Championship and is also, crucially,
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We won’t be seeing Oliver Townend’s 5* winner and Olympic team gold medal partner (Tokyo) Ballagmor Class lining up for the defending champion British this summer in Paris as the 17-year-old Irish gelding has been
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Horse Sport Ireland is delighted to nominate the athlete/horse combinations for consideration by the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) to represent Team Ireland in Eventing at the Paris Olympic Games. Eventing High Performance Director Dag
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The phone rang twice before I hear an accented “Hello?” on the other end. I could tell Ryan is somewhere active – the background noise brings an excitement and energy to the call. “Let me
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With the Paris Olympics just around the corner, Team Switzerland could prove a serious medal-contender if recent results are anything to go by. An experienced home-side took decisive win at the fourth leg of the
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It’s not every day you see a Connemara/Thoroughbred pinging around the upper levels of eventing, though of course there have been plenty of examples of this sturdy and athletic cross within our sport. This weekend,
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There are few riders in the modern sport of eventing that evoke its history quite as clearly as Harry Meade when he rides into an arena, wearing the long red hunting coat, baggy-thighed breeches, and red-topped
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After a short but sweet morning session of showjumping here at the Defender Bramham International Horse Trials, we’ve crowned our third winner of the week: overnight leader Emma Thomas become the British Under-25 National Champion
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