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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We’re into the second and final day of dressage at Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, where we’ll see the final bunch of CCI5* riders this afternoon (if you’re in Germany) to close out the first phase
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We can’t wait to get underway with the action in Germany this week at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, which feature the fourth CCI5* event of the season as well as a competitive CCI4*-S that
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There’s something to be said for the wave of confidence that comes hot on the tail of a great result — and of the power that it can have to bring on further bouts of
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We’re pretty sure there’s nothing sweeter than a sunny day at Luhmühlen, which is, we reckon, the world’s happiest event. Seriously: everyone on site at this place is always smiling, always chatting, always ready to stop for a
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One of our favourite traditions here at EN is putting our pocket change where our mouth is and doing some serious claim-staking on five-star fields. Luhmühlen is no different, and between us, we have all the
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It’s time to get the party started at the next CCI5* on the 2023 calendar: Longines Luhmühlen, which takes place just to the south of Hamburg in the north part of Germany. This staple on
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Eventing fans will be eagerly anticipating the official unveiling of Mike Etherington-Smith’s cross country designs at this year’s Longines Luhmühlen CCI5* and CCI4*-S. The designer here since 2017, Mike E-S knows this piece of property
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Welcome to sunny Lower Saxony, in the north of Germany, where an exceptional batch of horses and riders representing twelve nations — and featuring three previous CCI5* winners in Felix Vogg and Colero (here, last year), Pippa Funnell and MGH Grafton Street (Burghley,
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We’re gearing up for a busy month of June in eventing-land, with Luhmühlen’s CCI5* looming large in addition to key CCI4*-L events in Canada, Great Britain, and Poland to name just a few. Ahead of
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Hold onto your hats, CCI5* season is just getting underway! Next up on the 2023 5* tour is the German stop, Longinues Lumühlen Horse Trials, located in northern Germany just to the south of Hamburg.
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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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