View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mia Farley (@_miafarley) YES! After their standout clear and inside the time cross country rounds at their very first two five-stars, this is some news I
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We shared this video a few days ago in News & Notes, but it’s worth a share on its own, to be honest! By now most of you probably know at least some of the
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At the end of an exciting weekend at Aspen Farms Horse Trials in Yelm, WA, Karen O’Neal and Clooney 14 (pictured above), a 10-year-old Westphalian gelding owned by Annika Asling, sealed the win in the
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William Fox-Pitt hinted that Amanda Gould’s competitive CCI5* horse, Grafennacht (Birkhof’s Grafenstolz – Nachtigall, by Narew) would move to another rider on his retirement from competition at the top level of eventing at Badminton this
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lara de Liedekerke (@laradke_x) I feel a little shift in the eventing world … Within the past year and half or so we’ve had some really
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One of the curiosities of the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials is its scheduling: on Saturday and Sunday, the CCI5* class jumps first, and then, after all the excitement and whirlwind of emotions of that, it’s
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Sometimes, as an eventing journalist, every indicator of form, every number you crunch, every likelihood you put forth crumbles under the impact of a classic fairytale eventing day. It happened a few years ago in
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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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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lara de Liedekerke (@laradke_x) Say it ain’t so — we’ve reached the end of our last 5* before that horse show in Paris happening next month.
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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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Adamstown, Md. – The countdown to The Maryland International & Horse Trials hosted at Loch Moy Farm in Adamstown, Maryland on July 5th through the 7th has begun. With competition for all FEI divisions from
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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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Let’s raise our morning brews to another day of five-star cross country and as always, we wish for safe and speedy rides for all! The link to watch Luhmühlen live on H&C TV can be
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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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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Laura Collett MBE (@laura_collett) They led the style stakes in Wednesday’s trot up (in my humble opinion, anyway), and after Day One of Dressage, they are
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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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