The first water in Luhmühlen’s CCI5* track is also one of its biggest challenges. After jumping three straightforward single fences, without much in the way of spectators around, horses and riders travel for a long
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“It’s absolutely crazy — crazy, crazy crazy.” Those are the words Swiss Olympian Felix Vogg uses to describe his first reaction to winning a 5* for his country — the first Swiss win of its
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One of the best ways to relive an event (besides rewatching the live stream, of course) is to flip through the photos. While everyone and their second cousin seems to own a “fancy” camera these
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There’s a real risk that comes with entering an event that falls on your birthday: either you get very lucky and have a good week, probably culminating in a sweaty, sleepy beer in a tent
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After an exciting and influential cross-country day in yesterday’s soaring temperatures, today’s horse inspection was always going to be an interesting one — and it certainly turned out that way, with our field of 24
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Woe betide anyone who dismisses Luhmühlen as a ‘soft’ five-star, because it certainly isn’t that — and today’s cross-country action, which was run over a course that was largely the same as last year’s, once
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Welcome to cross country day at the Longines Luhmühlen 5*! I always love watching Luhmühlen cross country — to this point in the season, our 5* events have been the big, bold, beefy type. This
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Nobody could usurp our first day one-two, though plenty gave it a jolly good go today — but as we look ahead to tomorrow’s cross-country, it’s 23-year-old Brit Bubby Upton who reigns supreme with her former show
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We can’t be certain, but we’d be willing to be that right now, there’s a representative from the German Equestrian Federation at the embassy, begging the staff there to blacklist Will Coleman from the visa list. After
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Earlier this week, we introduced you to the field of horses here to contest the 5* at Luhmühlen — now let’s get to know the riders! Who’s making their debut at the level, who’s won
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We might be distracted by shiny 5* horses and their dapper riders…but let’s be honest, the real cross country action at Longines Luhmühlen, the spring’s German 5* event, happened today during the dressage break. Leadline
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We might be biased, but last year’s fairytale Luhmühlen victory by young Brit Mollie Summerland and her Charly van ter Heiden set an enormously high standard for the sort of heartstring-puller of a story we
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We’re truly in the thick of five-star season now, and all eyes this week are on Germany’s Luhmühlen Horse Trials, which takes place in the very pretty Lüneberger Heide area of Lower Saxony (sort of near Hamburg,
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We’re delighted to be back on site at Germany’s Luhmühlen CCI5* this week, where 36 horses and riders from 13 countries have come forward to tackle this sunny, merry mid-summer fixture. Before the competition gets going in
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Is it terribly dull of us if we schedule in a quick panic right now about just how quickly time is passing? It feels like just yesterday that we left Turniergelande Luhmühlen, battered, bruised, a wee bit
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Somehow, Luhmühlen week is already upon us again, and Germany’s showpiece event brings with it two hugely competitive classes: the CCI5*, one of just two in continental Europe, and the packed CCI4*-S, which also incorporates
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Horse & Country (@horseandcountrytv) Get excited for the final CCI5* event of the front half of 2022! The Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials begins in earnest Wednesday,
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We are proud to be American Horse Publications members, and earlier this year we learned that Tilly Berendt’s Luhmühlen Tour Diaries series had been named as a finalist it the Equine-related Editorial Series division. The
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Hot off of two back-to-back 5* events in April and May, our attentions now turn to Germany, where the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials are set to commence on June 16. Entries for both the 5*
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The 2022 Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials (June 16-19, 2022) are planning to run with spectators, the event announced in a press release today. Due to the pandemic, the event was canceled in 2020 and took take
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Each day between now and the New Year we’re counting down the top 20 most popular videos shared on EN in 2021. The #17 spot goes to this video, which garnered 1,396 views when it was
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Getting to a CCI5* is always an enormous undertaking — but never more so than in a pandemic year. Our own Tilly Berendt is on the road to Luhmühlen with Great Britain’s Mollie Summerland and
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