Peter Barry and Kilrodan Abbott of Canada getting some air
It has been a morning of ups and downs here at Eventing Nation. Despite the heartbreaking news of Jon Holling withdrawing from the Pan Am team we have had a great morning of dressage here at Fair Hill. Karen O’Connor and Veronica performed a lovely test just as the sun started to peek through the clouds here at Fair Hill to seize the lead in the CCI3*. Veronica took a two point lead in front of Jan Byyny and Inmidair who also rode this morning. The lovely R-Star from California didn’t disappoint with a 51.0 to move into 4th behind overnight leaders Phillip Dutton and Ben. So far today’s pairs have been really impressive and they occupy 5 of the top 7 CCI3* spots on the current leader board. There are 13 horses still to go in the CCI3* and I expect four or five of them to jump into the top 10.
EN’s good friend Courtney Cooper and Who’s a Star are leading the CCI2* at lunch time after scoring 45.8 this morning. Overnight leaders Andrea Leatherman and Mystic My are holding on to second.
Fan favorites Peter Atkins and Henny had a great CCI3* test that I felt deserved a better score than the 61.0 that they received. We’ll hear more from Peter shortly, but I think that Henny’s dressage work this year really showed in their performance today.
Doug Payne and Royal Tribute won the 5 year old Young Event Horse division. The four year olds were delayed by a thunderstorm that showed up just before lunchtime and left as quickly as it arrived.
Go eventing.
