If it wasn’t obvious from my Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of the Jr. Beginner Novice Rider 14 & Under, BN is my favorite AEC level. Junior, Rider, Horse, Amateur, Master Amateur … I do not
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And so the 2019 Longines FEI European Championships came to an end, not with a bang, but nor with a whimper, but with the sound of several dozen speakers pumping out aggressive Euro-pop and many thousands
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View this post on Instagram So beyond proud of P this weekend!! We finished in 11th place! He felt fantastic in Dressage, was a champion on cross county, and jumped great last night only adding
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It’s 11:07 p.m. on Saturday night, and the top three finishers of the $60,000 Adequan USEA Advanced Final — Boyd Martin, 1st with Long Island T; Leslie Law, 2nd with Voltaire de Tre; and Phillip
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The Head of the Lake was, as it is on a certain Saturday in April, the best place for sightseeing today at the 2019 American Eventing Championships. This iconic complex, rumored by some to be
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View this post on Instagram Numbers in the thousands. And that’s how long AECs has been. A post shared by Jj (@skipperdoodlefritz) on Aug 31, 2019 at 1:42pm PDT For American eventers, the bluegrass lanes
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You eventers are a tough bunch. No matter what gets thrown at you, you just keep on kicking! While this latest edition of #EventerProblems may not win style points, we’ve officially awarded them all full points for effort.
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3, 2, 1 … Beginner Novice cross country is underway at the 2019 American Eventing Championships! They don’t call this the Beginner Novice Olympics for nothin’, and Derek di Grazia’s beefy track does not disappoint.
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Amidst the excitement of the American Eventing Championships and the FEI Eventing European Championships, we look northward to Jemseg, New Brunswick
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The week-long party that is the 2019 American Eventing Championships continued to thrill and excite on Friday at the Kentucky Horse Park. The day kicked off with Advanced cross country, followed by Novice; Training took
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Move over, Advanced, with your fancy dressage tailcoats and show-boaty jumps. For one glorious week each year, we shove the Big Name Riders out of the limelight and focus instead on the cutthroat ranks of
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When they build championship tracks, they really don’t mess around – and true to form, Mike Etherington-Smith has provided us with something truly special this week.
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Isn’t it nice when some unknown comes from nowhere, baffling the punters and confounding the form guide writers, to make their debut at a championship? Isn’t it even more magical when that unfamiliar face goes
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Competitors are facing off against the blue numbers bright and early Friday morning, with the first horse contesting $60,000 Adequan USEA Advanced Final sprinting from the start box at 8:46 a.m. You can follow along
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The first batch of 2019 American Eventing Championship crowns have been distributed! Thursday saw the coronation of Intermediate and Preliminary divisions, as well as cross country for Training and dressage for Novice and Advanced. I’d
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View this post on Instagram On course at the AEC’s-Ambassador Maren Hanson taking it all in. #breesepinband #eventinglife #safetyfirst#medicalidbracelet A post shared by Breese Pin Band (@breesepinband) on Aug 29, 2019 at 4:09am PDT Today
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The masses have converged on the Kentucky Horse Park and not only are things in full swing, the Intermediate and Prelim divisions actually wrap up today. An eye-popping number of starters means we have full action
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What would Luhmühlen be without a sudden and unscheduled downpour? That’s exactly how the day began, but to be quite frank, no one was complaining – yesterday, after all, had passed in a sweaty haze, with
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Gut check! Most horse owners know the struggle of battling ulcers and other gut problems. Sometimes, you just need a bit of extra support to help keep your horse’s hindgut comfortable and functioning well. This
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View this post on Instagram A new day, and a new list of current leaders 🔝 Open Intermediate Championship: Tamra Smith & En Vogue Preliminary Amateur Championship: Arden Wildasin & Watch Out Preliminary
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After the late withdrawals of four combinations – Austria’s Daniel Dunst and Loriot F, Belgium’s Joris Vanspringel and Imperial van de Holtakkers, the Netherlands’ Raf Kooremans and Henri Z, and Poland’s Mateusz Kiempa and Grand Supreme, a diminished field of 73 presented to the assembled ground jury of Martin Plewa
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View this post on Instagram Day one is done! Here are the current #AEC2019 leaders going into tomorrow’s XC phase: ▪️Open Intermediate: Tamra Smith & En Vogue ▪️Bates Prelim Amateur: Katherine
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Hark, you queens (and kings) of the surreptitious live-stream; you sneaky savants who can wield a dressage feed and a spreadsheet simultaneously with
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