OCET says "Hi Eventing Nation!"
Friday was a gap day for the CIC3*, advanced, and CIC2* horses. Most of them spent the day grazing with probably a light stretchy flatwork and a couple of the horses had a short jump school. As always, it's about knowing what preparation is best for your horse.
Our world famous Worst Videos Ever series continues at Richland:
One story that I absolutely have to mention is that one rider told me they completely forgot to do the turn-on-the-haunches in their dressage test and not only did they not get whistled, but they received 7's and comments on both of the movements. Remember that the next time you get a questionable score on a movement.
Check out our interviews with Peter Atkins, Steph Bosch, and Doug Payne:
We will have a full preview of the XC from Hannah Burnett later, but the Ian Stark designed course is big and gallopy, which is what I would expect from an Ian Stark course. Go eventing.
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In some bad news on a Friday night, the Horse and Hound is reporting that a parade in Germany turned into a stampede of more than 100 horses, injuring up to 44 children.
I am floored by the missing dressage movement that was scored.
I'm a bit cynical right now about how things are running at Richland. I have heard of and personally witnessed some other, shall we say "inconsistencies, contradictions, irregularities", at Richland. Go get the thesaurus!
Is it due to the WEG selections? I would think that everyone would be crossing those t's and dotting those i's. How true are the other scores? Are people earning scores they don't deserve? What is the problem here?!?!