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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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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Look eventers, we get it. Life is tough out there. If you’re like most of us, you’re probably scraping together some pennies for entry fees or maxing out your credit card to pay off that
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Juliane Barth aka Julis Eventer (@julis_eventer) The First Horse Inspection has been and gone and we saw some very cool ‘fits on the Luhmühlen catwalk jog
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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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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Laura Collett MBE (@laura_collett) And so we find ourselves at the midpoint of the 5* season, with Adelaide, Kentucky and Badminton in the rearview and Luhmühlen
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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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If you ask Hollywood, x marks the Caribbean Islands as a place of adventure; a location on a map that’s shrouded in mystery, where pirates abound and mermaids lounge along the shores. Today, I want
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vittoria Panizzon (@panizzonvittoria) If you’ve ever wanted to take a riding holiday that also gives you some exposure to some quality instruction and training, look no
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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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I wanted to take a moment this morning to send a shout to those who go mostly unseen within our sport, though not at all unappreciated. This isn’t the best photo I’ve ever taken, but
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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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We’re doing a rain dance today as the storms move into Bromont for the final day of competition, though truthfully I’d probably rather show jump in the rain versus run a Formula 1 race, which
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Sunday morning at the Defender Bramham International Horse Trials is usually a bit of a tense affair – after battling the tough track and stamina-testing terrain of the day before, we generally see horses and
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