Take a Virtual Walk Around Mike Etherington-Smith’s CCI5* Track at Longines Luhmühlen

Photo by Tilly Berendt.

On Thursday, we shared a drone flyover of Mike Etherington-Smith’s CCI5* track – which has riders labeling it one of the biggest and best tracks they’ve seen here at Longines Luhmühlen in recent years – and now we’ve got a bit of a closer look at the questions the competitors will be answering tomorrow.

Cross country kicks off in the wee hours of the morning here in the U.S., with the first rider out on course at 4 a.m. EST / 10 a.m. local time. For the early riders who want to follow along with the action, the live stream is provided by H&C, and H&C+ members can access the live stream options with German and English commentary. To view the broadcast schedule, click here. An H&C+ membership costs just $9.99 per month and comes with no contract. Members receive access to all upcoming live streams and H&C’s extensive, Netflix-like library of videos are also available for $99.99 per year. CCI5* ride times can be found here.

We have two U.S. riders competing in the CCI5* this weekend: Ariel Grald and Leamore Master Plan will be first out of the two, running cross country at 4:32 a.m. EST / 10:32 a.m. local time. Jennie Brannigan and Stella Artois will leave the start box at 5:32 a.m. EST / 11:32 a.m. local time. Dressage leaders Mollie Summerland and Charly van ter Heiden will go out right after Jennie and Stella Artois at 5:36 a.m. / 11:36 a.m. local time. I will also be providing live updates for anyone unable to tune in in real-time, and H&C+ members will have access to the cross country replay once it’s available.

The CCI5* course this year has 31 numbered fences with 45 total jumping efforts running across 6,270 meters. The time allowed is 11 minutes on the nose.

You can do a click-through tour of each question on the track using this site plan, which has renderings of each fence along with a short description.

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