As the US selectors work their way through picking our Squad, check out a few videos from around the wide world of eventing. You can see Boyd’s tumble above. As Boyd described, they just arrived at a half stride and Neville couldn’t quite get out of the way. Neville and Boyd have been perfect on the cross-country for a long time and I just write the tumble off as a bit of bad luck. One fall doesn’t change the fact that this pair is one of the best cross-country pairs in the world, maybe one of the best ever. My feeling is the selectors were already leaning towards Otis, but we’ll know for sure who makes the team later today.
Barbury XC montage:
Clayton’s save already has 10,000+ views after less than 24 hours on Youtube. Here it is if you missed it:
Oli Townend in the ROR (Retraining of Racehorses) class:
And now for a video from the USA. The Canadian eventing team is preparing for the Olympics by riding out of coach David O’Connor’s home base in Virginia. The Canadians attended a dressage show on Sunday morning to prepare for the Olympic dressage test. We’ll have more on this later from Lisa, but here’s Jessica Phoenix and Exponential riding their test:
Go eventing.
