Ingenious!
Good evening Eventing Nation,
I come to you with an update from Dressage (and show jumping) day at Otter Creek Fall HT in case you didn’t read the title.
The USEA Area IV Championships (BN-P) are underway.
Scoring breakdown:
Tracy Gilman is leading the Preliminary Champ division with Nautilus 47 on a 35.7. The top 4 placings are separated by 3.4 points.
Sarah Hauschild is leading the Training Champ division with Padi’s Copper Flash on a 31.8.
Liz Lund on Rhine Maiden is leading the Novice Championship on a 24.5.
Heather Hornsby is leading the BN Championship with Buzz Lightyear III on a 28.00
The top 10 placings in the Jr Novice division are separated by 5.5 points. The kids are bringing it!
Megan Moore and Widespread Panic are leading the OI on a 36. She’s also tied for 3rd on The Grasshopper.
Jeanne Brose is leading the Novice on a 28. She won the BN division at Otter Summer.
Back in the barns, there was some concern over the judging being a little “funky” to say the least.The judges seemed to either love you or hate you, which is how it goes sometimes.
Lucy Lammer (my former teammate at Otter summer) was eliminated in the dressage because she carried a whip into the championship class. Very unfortunate way to end the week(end). Drop those whips, my friends!
Otter Creek was oversubscribed, and the Warners (and Betsy, the sec’y!) being so accommodating figured out a way to get everybody in by having the BN and Start divisions do show jumping today as well.
The cross country looks good for tomorrow. The course is similar to the Otter Summer track which was quite fair. The footing is always fabulous, so no one ever worries about that, which is nice. It wouldn’t be an event at Otter Creek without rain, but tomorrow’s outlook is mostly sunny. Here’s hoping!
There was talk about a Pennsylvania license plate being spotted.. If you trekked all the way out here from PA, kudos to you!
Go Otter Creek eventing.
