After the WEGs and Fair Hill, eventing in the US will calm down a bit this weekend with just five registered events. The Midsouth three-day and team challenge is one of my favorite events each year and it will be the first chance to ride at the Kentucky Horse Park following the WEGs. The other US three-day of the weekend is the training three-day at Waredaca. Today’s news and notes are all about the blogs.
Sinead reports that the Boekelo horses have arrived back in the states. Be sure to join Sinead and Hannah Burnett for a live blog here on EN tonight at 7:00pm ET. Shameless plug: check.
One story that I have heard from Boekelo that is not getting much coverage is that a Swedish rider had three refusals, the last of which was at 12a, but she carried on and had a nasty fall at fence 15. A statement from the Boekelo TD seems to suggest that the responsibility is on the rider to stop after three refusals, which is certainly true, but there are situations where a rider might not know whether the officials are counting them with one of the refusals (a close crossing of the tracks call, for example). In this case, the officials need to let the rider know whether they have been eliminated and then make sure they stop, which seems to have happened too late in this situation. Of course, we will see the Swedish rider in the next FEI yellow card report.
Lainey Ashker talks about her preparations for Pau in her latest blog entry. One of the things I learned over the weekend at Fair Hill that I hadn’t realized is that the journey for the horses to Pau is around three days long. They make the flight over to Amsterdam and then a two day drive to get to Pau. The US horses will be with a top-notch travel team, but that is still a stressful journey.
Rumor is that Ketie Lindsay has written another one of her humorous and unflattering fake interviews and this time it is about yours truly. We will post that either later today or tomorrow so get excited.
Midsouth ride times are posted here
Because I know everyone cares, last night’s Terrell Owens photo was from when T.O. visited Zenyatta
Today’s TOTD items are irideon tees–only available until noon Wednesday
Finally, please enjoy German eventing’s Boekelo video:
