[via Erika Bernsten]
Henley House Stables’ Remington has been added to the US Olympic Short List and will ship out with the other US horses for England at 3am Monday morning. The US based horses arrived at Newark Airport in New Jersey early this morning, where they were evaluated by the USEF vet team and then they moved into standard pre-flight quarantine and Newark. The selectors and relevant USEF selection committees then held a final series of meetings to evaluate any possible changes to the short list. No one has been removed from the short list to make room for Remi, meaning that 12 horses are now short listed and will compete to make the Olympic team at the Barbury Castle June 27 to July 1st. Your short list:
Phillip Dutton and Mystery Whisper
Phillip Dutton and Mighty Nice
Boyd Martin and Neville Bardos
Boyd Martin and Otis Barbotiere
Boyd Martin and Remington
Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville (already in England)
Karen O’Connor and Mr. Medicott
Will Coleman and Twizzel
Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen
Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister (already in England)
Allison Springer and Arthur
Will Faudree and Andromaque
The other nominated entry horses, Ballynoecastle RM, Fernhill Eagle, and Pawlow are all in quarantine as well just in case something unexpected happens to a short listed horse pre-flight. The horses will land in Stansted airport near London around 4pm Monday afternoon local time. Go Remi.
6:00pm Update: In response to a couple of questions we have received regarding all of the lists, the USEF named a short list, a nominated entry list, and reserves to the nominated entry list on June 11th. On June 11th, the short list contained 11 horses (Mystery, Nighty Nice, Neville, Otis, Manoir De Carneville, Mr. Medicott, Twizzel, Loughan Glen, Ringwood Magister, Arthur, and RF Rovano Rex). At that time, the nominated entry list contained the short list plus four additional horses (Andromaque, Remington, Fernhill Eagle, BallynoeCastle RM). Think of those four as the reserves for the short list. Pawlow and Can’t Fire Me were reserves for the nominated entry list. On June 14th, Marilyn Little-Meredith withdrew RF Rovano Rex from the short list (and therefore the nominated entry list as well). Andromaque was added to the short list (she was on the nominated entry list already) and Pawlow was moved into the vacant spot on the nominated entry list. Today Remington was simply added to the short list, making 12 short listers instead of 11. No change was made to the nominated entry list. The horses on the nominated entry list but not the short list are in Newark in quarantine right now just in case something happens to a short listed horse, in which case they would then be bumped up onto the short list. The nominated entry list contains up to 15 pairs and is due to the FEI on June 17th (today). A horse must be on the nominated entry to be on the short list. Only the short listed horses are traveling to England with a chance of competing at the Olympics. Clear as mud?
