Big name riders aside, five-star debutante Mollie Summerland had one of the most impressive rides of the day across Pierre Michelet’s cross country track at Pau CCI5* — the only five-star of 2020. At just 22 years of age
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There are a few things that are certain in life: death, taxes, and a extraordinarily tough showjumping course at Les 5 Etoiles de Pau. Of all six CCI5* events in the world, it produces the
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View this post on Instagram Will there be a shake-up at the top? We can’t watch. 🙈 Show jumping kicks off in a few hours at @5etoilesdepau. Watch live on @horseandcountrytv 😬 .
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There’s been some drama at this afternoon’s final horse inspection at Les 5 Etoiles de Pau, for which 35 horse-and-rider combinations presented after five overnight withdrawals. Among those absent from proceedings was best-placed French rider Jean Lou Bigot,
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The sun shone down on Pau course designer Pierre Michelet today — probably because if it hadn’t, he’d have given it 20 penalties and a yellow card — offering up a scorcher of a day, a first return
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Welcome to the most frightening depths of the mind of Pierre Michelet, a man who we always imagine tenting his fingers in his nuclear powerplant and cackling away in a French accent. There’s a rumour that
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It would have been easy to become complacent in this morning’s tiny final dressage session, which saw just 15 of the 47 entered combinations come forward — after all, we saw the venue record smashed twice
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32 of the 2020 Les 5 Etoiles de Pau field came forward for dressage yesterday while just a mere 15 remain to perform their tests in Friday’s session — but if you think that means there’s
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You don’t quite think of the first phase as being the battlefield for a ferocious head-to-head, but that’s exactly what it became this afternoon as day one’s batch of competitors came forward at Les 5
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Welcome to Thursday at Pau, where we’re looking ahead to a truly colossal afternoon of dressage. Colossal in talent, that is — we’ve all enjoyed a leisurely lie-in while the arena was taken over by
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Can’t make it down to the south of France because of, you know, pesky pandemics, quarantine regulations, and the world going a bit topsy-turvy all around us? No matter: there are plenty of ways you
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You’ve met the riders of Pau — now it’s time to get to grips with the 48 horses they’ll be strutting their stuff with throughout this week at the world’s only CCI5* of 2020. From
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If there’s one thing that floats Pau’s boat more than anything else, it’s embracing #SpookySeason and holding the trot-up basically as close to midnight as the FEI will let them. Okay, okay, we’re exaggerating a bit, but
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There’s plenty of excitement in the world of eventing with the first – and only – CCI5* competition of the year happening at Les Etoiles de Pau in France this week and New Zealand have
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Welcome to sunny Pau, where the palm trees and the beachy arenas certainly aren’t the hottest thing about this year’s competition. We’re looking at a compact but absolutely world-class field, featuring an absolutely dribble-worthy line-up
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We’re sure if you read between the lines enough there’s a bit somewhere in The Killers’ Mr Brightside (a wholly overrated bop at this point, let’s be honest) about coming out your cave and doing just
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Bonsoir, readers, and welcome to the dark side. I’ve been seeing the word ‘blog’ chucked around like a searing bit of weaponry lately, and as is my wont, I’ve decided to embrace that which is
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Did we ever, truly, think we’d make it to this point? Probably not — but from the rubble of the 2020 calendar rises Les 5 Etoiles de Pau, the one and only CCI5* of this
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For those in need of a glimmer of hope in these funny old times, look no further – we come bearing the happy news that Les 5 Etoiles de Pau, France’s autumn CCI5*, is still
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It would be tempting, when writing about Toledo de Kerser and Tom McEwen‘s first CCI5* victory at Pau today, to suggest that it’s been rather a long time coming. But Tom is quick to dispel that notion
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We’re devastated to report that Archie Rocks, ridden by Switzerland’s Felix Vogg, has been euthanised following a fall late on course at Les 5 Etoiles de Pau yesterday. The pair had enjoyed a clear round up until the final
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If you’ve been following along with Les 5 Etoiles de Pau – or, indeed, have nipped onto social media over the last 24 hours – it’s likely you’ve come across a widely-shared video of an incident
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And so the final battle commences, but not before Sunday’s horse inspection – and true to Pau form, that, too, brought its fair share of drama. After the overnight withdrawal of Gemma Tattersall‘s two rides, Jalapeno and Chilli Knight,
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