One FEI Yellow Warning Card was issued at Longines Luhmühlen in Germany this past weekend. Austrian Olympian Lea Siegl was handed down the penalty for “Abuse of Horse – Excessive use of whip, bit and/or
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Very nearly one year ago to the day, Ros Canter rode into the main arena at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials on her 2023 Pau champion Izilot DHI on as near to a sure thing
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Change is afoot in the top ten — and beyond — after the final horse inspection at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, held in front of the ground jury of Katrin Eichinger-Kniely, Merel Schurink, and
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Woe betide anybody who continues to repeat the tired opinion that Luhmühlen is a ‘soft’ CCI5*. Dimensionally? No, it’s not maxed out. Length-wise? It’s unlikely you’ll ever see a nearly thirteen minute course here. Terrain?
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We are devastated to bring you news of a horse death at Longines Luhmühlen’s CCI4*-s today following an incident on cross country. German rider Maj-Jonna Ziebell and Chiquita, a 13-year-old Polish mare, fell at the C
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Here we are at the halfway point of the season’s 5*s, on the best day – cross country day – and I’ll be with you right from the first “Gute fahrt” to the last. (Sorry
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Tomorrow’s cross-country course at the Longines Luhmühlen CCI5* has got everyone talking, with several riders reckoning the 11:08 optimum time will be near-on impossible to catch, even with just 28 numbered fences — and that
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Alliteration and repetition are the name of the game when discussions are had about the track at Luhmühlen. Twisty. Turny. Twists and turns. Piggy March elaborates: “Twisty, twisty, twisty all the way ‘til the end”.
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Yesterday’s first dressage day at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials was notable mostly for its harsh judging, with nobody across either the CCI4*-S or the feature CCI5* breaking into the 20s (and plenty, to their
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The eventing overlords giveth, and the eventing overlords taketh away: such is the feeling on day one of the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, anyway, where we were given so much – blazing sunshine, a sterling
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It’s time for another EN Form Guide, and this time we’ve got your passport to Germany for our next CCI5* of the season at Longines Luhmühlen. As we’ve done all season, we’ve populated this Luhmühlen
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There’s nothing, in our humble opinion, more restorative for the soul than a mid-season trip to the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials. It’s arguably the friendliest event in the world (upon arrival today, we were duly
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It’s time to get underway with the fourth CCI5* of our 2025 season, this time happening in Germany at Longines Luhmühlen. One of our favorite, most picturesque events to cover, it’s the perfect event to
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We’re rolling right into our next CCI5* event to round out this top half of 2025, and this time we’ll be journeying to Germany to visit Longines Luhmühlen, which will play host to some 55
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One of the curiosities of the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials is its scheduling: on Saturday and Sunday, the CCI5* class jumps first, and then, after all the excitement and whirlwind of emotions of that, it’s
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Sometimes, as an eventing journalist, every indicator of form, every number you crunch, every likelihood you put forth crumbles under the impact of a classic fairytale eventing day. It happened a few years ago in
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Talk about unsociable: despite last night’s party raging on until nearly three in the morning, and German party tunes still ringing in everyone’s ears, this morning’s duo of final horse inspections at Luhmühlen still, rather
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After the soggy excitement of the morning’s CCI5* cross-country at Luhmühlen, the afternoon’s sunny Meßmer Trophy CCI4*-S felt almost relaxed, despite a red-hot field vying for Olympic selection and a tough, technical track with a
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For the last eighteen months or so, I’ve felt my grasp on eventing journalism slacken in favour of something else – something I’d never planned. These days, I feel, I need to engage less and less
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And so we reach the midpoint of the 5* season – Adelaide, Kentucky and Badminton are in the rearview, and there’s just three more to come after this week. But right here, right now, Luhmühlen’s
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The competition is well underway at Luhmühlen, with the dressage done and dusted and the cross country looming large. Tom McEwen’s not a big lad, but says he struggled to fit through the skinnies himself,
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It’s very nearly cross-country day at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, and once again, course designer Mike Etherington-Smith has built two beautiful, horse-friendly, technical courses that are just as useful at developing inexperienced talent as
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Yesterday’s first day of dressage in Luhmühlen’s CCI5* saw none of the 21 initial riders clinch a sub-30 – and today, they were nearly as hard to come by. At the close of this phase, just
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