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With limited context to work with, I’m going to give you this gem of a photo to start your Thursday off right: it’s Mariah Carey, babyyyy, and her daughter Monroe, who appears to be a newly-confirmed horse girl and I am HERE FOR IT. Now we just need to get the Elusive Chanteuse on a horse.
US Weekend Preview:
Champagne Run at the Park H.T. (Lexington, KY): Website | Scoring | Entry Status & Ride Times
The Maryland Horse Trials at Loch Moy Farm (Adamstown, MD): Website | Scoring | Ride Times | Entry Status
Larkin Hill H.T. (NY): Website | Scoring
News From Around the Globe:
So often, simplicity is the key to great riding. Simplicity and – you guessed it! – great basics. That was the name of the game on day two of the EA21 West clinic, which took place in Washington state and focussed much of its attentions on the quality of the canter. Here’s what the participants learned, and some great inspiration for your weekend jump school.
We’re not the only people obsessed with Aachen. In Andrew Nicholson’s latest op-ed for Horse & Hound, the former winner espouses the event as the ideal showcase of our sport to a wider audience, and we couldn’t agree more. As an aside, it’s always a funny little thrill of sorts to bump into this absolute legend of the sport at the media centre coffee machine in the morning before he heads off on coaching duties. We’ll let it slide that he nicks our beverages, because he does write rather well.
Rich Fellers has pleaded guilty to being Not A Great Dude, Actually, and will likely serve four years in prison. While that seems like a pretty short sentence for a sexual abuse charge, it’s still heartening to see a case of this kind actually yielding some kind of punishment. Unrelatedly, this week, disgraced US Gymnastics ‘doctor’ Larry Nassar had a very bad time in prison after telling his fellow inmates that he wished the women’s tennis match at Wimbledon, which they were watching together, was being played by girls. Oh dear.
Watch This:
Time for a classic rewatch – this time, from 2009, where a baby-faced Michi Jung made his 5* debut at Luhmühlen with La Biosthetique Sam…and won it.
