Madeline Parisan, 13 yo from Rising Sun MD, competing in her first Prelim division at Pine Top with her 18 yo TB Hope to Star. Thanks to Kim Parisan for sending in the photo.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Eventing Nation! In true American tradition, today we take the birthday of another country’s patron saint and celebrate it by consuming mass amounts of alcohol. Here are a few notes for your weekend reading pleasure:
Competitions:
Pine Top Spring Horse Trials (GA) [Live scores and times]
Phillip Dutton and The Foreman are tied for the lead in the open prelim at Pine Top, which is running preliminary through beginner novice this weekend. It’s great to see “Chip” out again and although he has nothing left to prove it would be great to see a nice little run of compeitions from him this spring. I’ve had the honor of hacking Chip a couple of times and he’s my favorite of all of Phillips rides. Canadian Ian Roberts is tied with Phillip and Chip aboard Faolan. Josh Barnacle
and Victor lead the prelim horse division. Elizabeth Mudge
and Catch Me
had one of just two double-clears in the prelim rider show jumping to move up from 3rd to 1st. Andi Lawrence
and Armani IV
lead the JYOP division going into the cross-country. Cross-country runs on Sunday.
Meadowcreek Park (TX) [Live scores]
Julie Wolfert and Buenos Aires of Kansas lead the Meadowcreek open prelim. Julie is also tied for the lead with Amanda Merritt and Flagmount’s Allstar in the open training. Nicole Baronne and Double Rivers Spinnaker are leading the training rider by 0.9 points.
The Event at Three Day Ranch (CA) [Scores]
Frankie Thieriot was kind enough to send us a couple of videos from California:
At Three Day Ranch, Bunnie Sexton and Rise Against are leading the advanced/intermediate division with the only double-clear XC ride of Saturday. The developing pair Mackenna Shea
and Landioso picked up 24 time penalties to add to their dressage score of 30.3 in the intermediate. Kim Liddell
and Masters Choice moved all the way up from 5th after the dressage to take the lead with the only double-clear in that division. Show jumping for all divisions starts Sunday morning. Thank you for the videos Frankie!
Helmet Cams: Visionaire, Samantha, and ESJ have done a great job staying on top of the developing helmet cam story. Few things have done more to connect eventing with new fans over the past year than the growing popularity of helmet cams at all levels. The 155,000 people who have watched the Henny WEG video have been treated to an exciting look at eventing at its best. Putting any restriction on the use of helmet cams seems to deprive eventing of a great opportunity to spread the awesomeness. I understand that there are potentially some safety and TV rights concerns. However, until the FEI makes every rider wear helmets at all times when mounted I’m not sure they have too much of a right to complain about helmet cam safety.
The mythical server switch: The platform and server switch has taken way longer than expected and all I will say is that it is hopefully coming very soon, as in the next few days very soon. There are several weeks of my life that I will never get back related to this conversion, but such is life…
Ali will be along later with your links post written exclusively in a phonetic Irish accent. If you are going out tonight be sure to stay safe and have fun. Remember, don’t drink and drive and don’t drink and ride your horse. Go eventing.
