Doug Payne can typically be spotted out on cross country tracks wearing his slim, low-profile Cambox helmet cam and he’s already put up some highlights from his run yesterday with Vandiver, who jetted up from
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All 45 horses remaining in the CCI5* at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by MARS equestrian, trotted up this morning before the ground jury of Christina Klingspor, Peter Gray and Bobby Stevenson. A
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As usual, the cross country course at the The Kentucky Horse Park will be dotted with a number of new dandelions after yesterday’s test. We heard rider after rider say that it was one of
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I received a text a couple of hours ago that plaintively asked, “is it normal to feel hungover after watching eventing?” And the answer, of course, is yes: even if there isn’t any booze involved,
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then we might have hit the jackpot with this gallery. There’s magic all around the Kentucky Horse Park on one of the last Saturdays in April each
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The cross country gods certainly make sure they made up for lost time today, as a very dramatic cross country shuffled both the CCI5* and the CCI4*-S leaderboards. As the day ends, the top four
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Okay, folks, hands up if you’ve had butterflies since approximately 6 p.m. EST yesterday, couldn’t sleep for most of the night, and have been a frantic little weirdo all morning preparing for the #BestWeekendAllYear. I
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eventing Nation (@goeventing) On Thursday I promised Will Coleman, a well-established jam band nerd, that if he finished Off The Record (one of two
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It is cross-country day! By all accounts the courses today are beefy and tight for the time, and with the rain supposed to start by noon today, we’re in for an action-packed day. The action starts
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I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like an emotional wreck after today’s dressage. So much pressure! Such tight margins! Such extraordinary moments of joy and crushing disappointments! How on earth am I
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I know I’m supposed to be paying attention to things like contact and straightness and whether or not the flying changes were clean, but I can’t help but treat the dressage as a bit of
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With two full days of dressage, there’s just so much to unpack here. You can find the meat and potatoes in our five-star dressage report, but there’s still so many cute stories and reflections. Find your
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It’s not often that a horse waltzes into the arena in its five-star debut and throws down what’s not far off from the record for a debut in terms of score. But most horses aren’t Mai
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Tamie Smith will lead CCI4*-S heading into cross country tomorrow with En Vogue, one of her three rides in the division — she’s also tied for third with Danito and nicked the top 20 with
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Fancy prancing: activated. Tilly Berendt on duty here from sunny London to chat through all the goings-on in day two of dressage. You have now entered DISCOURSE INFERNO. We’ll be looking at a seriously jam-packed
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Welcome to the 2021 edition of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event! Yesterday we had the first half of the field kick off the competition, with some truly exciting results. Today, the action is non-stop once
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In a year when the entire competition feels different, it’s nice to have a few things that feel the same, like Marilyn Little skipping to the top of the leaderboard. But of course, some things
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Pinch me! I can’t believe we are actually on site at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. Thursday dressage is Rolex Stadium is normally quiet as spectators trickle in, but today was a different kind
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And they’re off! The first day of dressage at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event yielded up a hefty helping of arena-based excellence, leaving us with a three-way tie for the lead in the CCI4*-S and
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Marilyn Little wasn’t sure how the colder temperatures this afternoon would affect RF Scandalous, who is definitely a Florida girl who prefers not to experience being cold (I can relate to that, Kitty) – but
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2021 marks Vandiver’s fifth crack at the Kentucky Three-Day Event. The now 17-year-old Trakehner’s first go-round was in 2015 with former rider Werner Geven; he finished 22nd in 2016 with Doug Payne, at the second
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The CCI4*-S field is a stacked one and that fact was made evident by the competition we’ve seen right out of the gate. Many of these horses competing here are younger or newer to the
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Welcome to day one of dressage here at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by MARS Equestrian! It’s rather strange not to be opening up our live updates first thing in the morning, but
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