This is what a family photo of eventers looks like:
Riding Rutledges! Ciana, Colleen and Cassie. Photo by Brian Rutledge.
Colleen Rutledge, mom and 5* rider, competed last weekend at Fair Hill International on C Me Fly (20th in 3*) and one of the top event horses in America, her own Covert Rights (18th in 4* with one of the very few double clear show jumping rounds of the competition). And with Global Absolute, Colleen was 7th in the Young Event Horse championship for 5-year-olds.
And here she is, this week, with her two daughters Ciana and Cassie, ready for the Classic Three-Day Event trot-up at Waredaca Horse Trials on Thursday.
(I think no adult in the Rutledge household needs any sleep at all. And I do not want to see what their laundry pile looks like on Monday morning, either.)
Ciana, 11, is riding Daybreak in the Novice Classic Three-Day Event. Colleen is riding Castaway in the Training Classic, and Cassie, 17, is riding Connect The Dots in the Training Classic.
On Saturday, Colleen will lead off the Endurance Day competition at 8:30 a.m. in the Training division, with Cassie scheduled for a 9:18 a.m. start, and Ciana begins at 10 a.m. in the Novice division.
Good luck, ladies!
Holiday: National Mule Day
Major Events:
5 Etoiles de Pau: Website, Entries, Form Guide, Live Scores, Live Stream, EN’s Coverage, EN’s Twitter, EN’s Instagram
U.S. Weekend Preview:
Waredaca 3DE & H.T. [Website] [HT Entry Status] [3DE Entry Status] [HT Ride Times] [3DE Ride Times] [Live Scores]
Windermere Run H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times/Live Scores]
Chattahoochee Hills H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Scores]
Holly Hill H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Scores]
Saturday Links:
Tributes paid to amateur eventer who died after schooling fall
Jonty Evans to inspire others as a speaker, a year after leaving hospital
Reassurance over equine joint injections after human study raises concerns
A Glimpse into the ICP Faculty Teaching Days
USEA Events A-Z: Sundance Farm Horse Trials
Featured Video: We’ve officially sucked Jumper Nation editor Meagan DeLisle over to the dark side. Here she is at Hagyard Midsouth H.T. with her tail-less wonder horse, Chasin Tail, tackling Beginner Novice last weekend.
