The beginner novice through training divisions at the AECs started their competition on Thursday, and some of the training and novice divisions even do cross-country on Thursday. Not surprisingly, almost all of the leading scores are in the 20’s.
The AECs are the pride of the USEA and the great USEA crew will be taking literally thousands of photos over the weekend. I have heard that the mission is to photograph every single rider and I don’t doubt that they will succeed. Click here for Wednesday’s photos.
Boyd had a run-in with the law on his way to Georgia. Fortunately it was only an animal health inspector checking Boyd’s Coggins, and the Coggins for Boyd’s horses, which were all in order apparently. I want to give a shout out to the member of the Boyd Martin Eventing crew whose first move after being pulled over by the cops was to pull out the cell phone and take a picture–a true member of Eventing Nation.
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Meanwhile, in England, the Blenheim CCI3* dressage started on Thursday. The only US rider to compete today was British-based Julian Stiller, who scored a 66 on Salsa. All the other US riders do dressage on Friday. I realized that I forgot to mention earlier this week that Will Coleman and Nevada Bay are competing at Blenheim for the US along with Sharon White on Rafferty’s Rules, Madeline Blackman on Gordonstown, and UK based riders Julian Stiller and Aimee Chambers. Nevada Bay is one of my favorite young advanced horses and to make my omission up to Will, he is featured in both of the videos below.
Link: Blenheim scores
As always, Will’s groom did a great job of turning out both Nevada Bay and Will.
Patricia at Ecogold was kind enough to walk the Blenheim course with her video camera. While the footage is choppy, our female readers will at least enjoy watching Will walk around from behind.
Go eventing.
