By the time two-phase leaders Laura Collett and London 52 cantered into the arena with their 6.5 penalty margin in hand, Luhmühlen’s CCI5* win could have felt like a foregone conclusion — but 41 rails had already
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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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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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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 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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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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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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It seems like these days we look at each other’s lives through the lens of a highlight reel. We get to see the incredible trips, the best jumps, and the moments that we’re proud enough
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We saw something rather unusual at the upper-levels today in the MARS Bromont CCI finale: all thirteen placings in CCI4*-L division remained completely unchanged between yesterday’s cross country and today’s show jumping. A few rails
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“I can’t tell you how special winning a big one is when you get to this stage,” says Pippa Funnell, who jumped a faultless round to retain her lead and secure the win in the
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The Under-25 CCI4*-L had scarcely started, and then it was all over — and there was little in the way of surprise when Bubby Upton took the win with Magic Roundabout IV, having led from the front on
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The final horse inspection at Bramham is always a bit of a tense ordeal: Saturday’s CCI4*-L cross-country challenge is arguably the toughest of its level, and with intense terrain across the course, too, horsemanship must
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It’s the Boyd Martin and Phillip Dutton show following a wonderful day of cross country at the MARS Bromont CCI after an exceptional showcase of riding and sport. Between the two Olympians, they lead all
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Though cross country day at Bramham started out inauspiciously – the first four competitors out of the start box came home clear and with negligible or no time penalties — it quickly gained in intensity, with
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14 months after the announcement of the selections, 28 pairs of riders and horses are already identified by the federal sports management team and accompanied by the FFE both on the sport side and on
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If you ask just about any top rider why they choose to come to Bromont each year, the answer is always similar: because it’s a true cross country test that sets horses up well with
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It was all change across the arenas in Bramham’s roster of four-star classes today, and the newly crowned leader of the feature CCI4*-L is a familiar pairing: Ros Canter and Izilot DHI now hold onto the top spot
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Despite smoke billowing south from the devastating wildfires still raging throughout Canada, the air quality remained clear in the little pocket to the east of Montreal that seems to have primarily escaped the windblown plumes.
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We are ready to move on to dressage following the First Horse Inspection at the MARS Bromont CCI, which will begin in earnest Thursday with dressage competition for the CCI2* through CCI4* divisions. The jog
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The 2023 Bramham International Horse Trials got off to an auspicious start with a rather eventful first horse inspection, held in front of the palatial seventeenth-century home at the heart of one of North Yorkshire’s
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