THE ESSENTIALS Length: 6555m Optimum time: 11:30 Fences: 29 Speed: 570mpm “Last year, with hindsight,” I must have been insane,” laughs MARS Maryland 5 Star course designer Ian Stark, who has delivered us a new-look, considerably tougher track for
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Ian Stark’s second design here at the Maryland 5 Star has certainly upped the ante from its inaugural running in 2021. It was to be expected, for a designer doing his first 5* track on
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There’s a new Napravnik on top at the Thoroughbred Makeover! Retired Thoroughbred jockey Rosie Napravnik won the eventing division at the 2019 Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover with Sanimo, older sister Jazz won in 2020
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The weather conditions were drastically different on Friday as the 5-year-olds took to the center stage for the 2022 Dutta Corp. USEA Young Event Horse East (YEH) Coast Championships presented by Dubarry. With the sun
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The second day of dressage had lovely fall weather at the MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill presented by Brown Advisory, much different from Thursday’s rainy conditions. Hannah Sue Hollberg and Capitol HIM moved
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Yesterday’s MARS Maryland CCI5* leaders, Woods Baughman and C’est La Vie 135, had arguably the worst possible conditions to deal with for dressage, battling through driving sheets of rain that were so thick you could scarcely spot
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬 (@commonwealthsaddles) So you’ve purchased a new-to-you ex-racehorse (or, you’re shopping for one at this week’s Thoroughbred Makeover!) and are eager to get kicking along
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We’re well underway here at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, with the second batch of 5* riders yet to go this afternoon. Yesterday, we introduced you to the field of riders and now it’s time
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If you’re all dressage-d out today, you can watch another kind of magic with Elisa Wallace’s mustang demonstration! She uses relational horsemanship methods to train some amazing things with very little (or no) tack. Can
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It was a rainy, cloudy day at Fair Hill, but that didn’t stop the action of the first day of the 2022 Dutta Corp. USEA Young Event Horse East Coast Championships presented by Dubarry. Four-
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As we checked the weather radar with trepidation this morning, watching the buckets pour outside the media center, we held hope that the forecast would be correct: the worst of today’s rain was supposed to
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It’s been a short and sweet day at the MARS Maryland 5 Star — and at the very end of the day, in the most torrential weather of the day, we got ourselves an overnight
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As we move ahead to this afternoon’s start of 5* dressage here at MARS Maryland 5 Star, presented by Brown Advisory, we’ve dug into the numbers to introduce you to the 24-strong field competing this
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Getting to a CCI5* is an extraordinary accomplishment, and one that many riders will spend a lifetime working towards. Tens of thousands of hours; blood, sweat, tears; moments spent lying in the arena dirt wondering
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As Hurricane Ian made its turn to hit the west coast of Florida further south than originally anticipated — the first storm of its size to hit this side of the state in nearly 20
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Dressage begins! Honestly, I’m still not accustomed to the idea of a fall five-star in the US, but as only the second annual Fair Hill 5*, I think I’m excused. The weather this weekend looks
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Every course designer has a different set of priorities and a different modus operandi — and understanding your designer is key to unpacking what it is they’re looking for from your round. Lucinda Green explains
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We are through the first horse inspection here at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, presented by Brown Advisory, but the jog was not without its dramatics for the 5* horses. A total of 24 5*
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As is tradition here on EN, we love to nerd out ahead of a major competition and make our picks. For the MARS Maryland 5 Star, presented by Brown Advisory, it’s a small-but-mighty CCI5* field
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Founded in 2019, the MARS Bromont Rising U25 Program was initially created to assist up-and-coming riders under the age of 25 in North America who had not yet competed in a destination event, such as
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Eventing Nation is once again delighted to have collaborated with the Maryland 5 Star Event Committee to bring you the digital program and form guide for the MARS Maryland 5 Star presented by Brown Advisory.
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by USEF Network (@usefnetwork) Now here is a cool update from the Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search, in which junior jumping riders are challenged to develop
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Happy Ticket Tuesday! If you’ve been having Kentucky withdrawals, you can salve that wound right up by snagging your tickets for the 2023 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by MARS Equestrian, happening April 27-30,
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