The second day of the Meßmer CCI4*-S at Luhmühlen arrived with a bang – because today, many of the class’s heaviest hitters, and those vying the hardest for spots on their respective Olympic teams in
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Is this a touch of deja-vu we’re feeling here? Last year, we saw Laura Collett take the first-phase lead with London 52 in Luhmühlen’s five-star, and then hold it all the way through to take
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Just one year ago, then-21-year-old Anna Lena Schaaf made her debut in Luhmühlen’s CCI4*-S – a class which, as the host of the German National Championships, is one of the most prestigious in the country. And
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After Adelaide, Kentucky, and Badminton comes our hump-day CCI5* — Longines Luhmühlen! Much like our time ’round Kentucky this spring, we are seeing a few of our biggest names tackling the CCI4*-S Meßmer Trophy this
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Welcome to the fourth CCI5* of the 2024 season – and forgive us for a moment for a bit of wildly unprofessional total partiality, because the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials really is one of EN’s
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THE COMPETITION: There are two key competitions taking place this week: the Longines CCI5*-L, which is the fourth five-star of 2024, and the Meßmer Trophy CCI4*-S, which incorporates the German National Championship and is also, crucially,
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The phone rang twice before I hear an accented “Hello?” on the other end. I could tell Ryan is somewhere active – the background noise brings an excitement and energy to the call. “Let me
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When we think about the final stepping stones to the Olympic Games, a couple of key competitions come to mind – and chief among those, both for its perfect final-prep dates and its convenient Northern
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Boyd Martin (@boydmartineventing) Can’t see the embedded Instagram post above? Click here to watch the video directly on Instagram. You don’t *really* know if you have
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The week or so after an event is always full of a special kind of chaos — the chaos that is unloading memory cards, which will have been filled to bursting throughout the competition but
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hickstead (@hicksteadevents) If you’ve been following EN for any period of time, you’re probably familiar by now with the infamous footage of Andrew Nicholson vaulting his
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We’re devastated to report that Tamie Smith‘s Luhmühlen mount, Solaguayre California, has been euthanised following a freak injury to her knee while jumping through the first water complex at the German five-star, which was her debut at the
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As Olympic individual gold medallist Julia Krajewski entered the arena as the final competitor of the day in Luhmühlen’s CCI4*-S, the writing was already on the wall: she was the newly minted German Champion, no matter what
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By the time two-phase leaders Laura Collett and London 52 cantered into the arena with their 6.5 penalty margin in hand, Luhmühlen’s CCI5* win could have felt like a foregone conclusion — but 41 rails had already
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It’s the Sunday of a big three-day, which means the only activity I want to be doing is reliving all the highlights from the weekend. If you share this enthusiasm (depraved obsession?), I’ve got just
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It’s time to find out who’s going to take the spoils at this year’s Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials! Show jumping will kick off at 4:30 a.m. EST (that’s 10:30 a.m. in Germany), and I’ll be
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All 29 horses that completed yesterday’s cross-country were presented to the ground jury, comprised of president Nick Burton, Dr Joachim Dimmek, and Katrin Eichinger-Kniely, and all were accepted into the final phase of the competition — eventually. Two
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And so we come to the end of cross-country day at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, the world’s ‘soft-option’ five-star; one that’s just really easy and like, doesn’t even count as a five-star. (Seriously, though, where’s the
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For much of German rider Arne Bergendahl’s career, making it to the pinnacle level — CCI5* — wasn’t really a part of the plan. Sure, he enjoyed riding and grew up in a family that
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Gooooood morning to you, fellow insane eventing fans! It’s just before 1 a.m. here in Northern California and I’ve had a bit of an early-evening nap and a weird-feeling latte to get me back up
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It’s nearly time for our favorite kind of Saturday here at EN – 5* cross country day. The Longines Luhmühlen course has been walked, the riders have studied their maps – then studied them again…
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Laura Collett will be your Longines Luhmühlen CCI5* leader going into tomorrow’s cross-country phase, after a foot-perfect test with her Olympic gold medallist and Badminton winner London 52 (Landos x Vernante, by Quinar Z). They delivered
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It’s nearly cross-country day here at the Longines Luhmühlen CCI5*, and this unique venue plays host to not only a seriously good field of entries, it also has a seriously interesting, and hugely academic, course
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