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Apr 25, 2018
46 Horses Accepted at the 2018 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event First Horse Inspection
The start field for the 2018 edition of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event is even smaller following the first horse inspection as one horse was withdrawn from the hold and one wasn’t accepted.
Five horses were sent to the hold box and then accepted upon reinspection: Spring Easy (Caroline Martin), Paddy the Caddy (Erin Sylvester), Qorry Blue D’Argouges (Colleen Loach), Polaris (Sara Gumbiner), and Sound Prospect (Alexandra Knowles).
Johnny Royale, ridden by Joe Meyer, was sent to the hold box and Meyer decided to withdraw him from the competition. Mettraise, ridden by Erin Sylvester, was sent to the hold and then not accepted upon reinspection.
Two additional horses had withdrawn before the horse inspection; Pebbly Maximus, ridden by Caroline Martin, and Revitavet Capato, ridden by Jordan Linstedt. So, there will be 46 horses moving forward to dressage.
Dressage gets underway tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. with Buck Davidson and Park Trader. This will be the first four-star since the removal of the dressage multiplier. According to USEA’s partner, EquiRatings, “The result of the removal of the multiplier is that dressage scores will be more tightly bunched going into the jumping phases and at this level, cross-country will the most influential phase - with dressage just behind and then show jumping (dressage is still the main influencer when you look at the sport across all levels).”
“We are going to see much lower scores in the first phase, a 45 in the old system is a 30 now,” continued EquiRatings. “So expect those top horses to be scoring in the twenties. If you want to break a course record, you need to hit the TEENS in the first phase with Bettina Hoy’s 2009 score on Ringwood Cockatoo being translated to a 19.2 opening score in the new system. Big opening scores won’t be enough at this venue, it will be about finishing on that score. Make no mistake, this will be a test of who can add the least to their dressage score. Every second lost on the cross-country course, and every pole down, is likely to see snakes and ladders on the leader board that we are not used to. Even the day before it begins, the data is suggesting this promises to be one of the most dramatic Kentuckys in recent years.”
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Feb 19, 2020
Intercollegiate
Eventing at NC State Treasures Horsemanship and Friendship
Eventing at NC State was founded in 2016 and we currently have 18 undergraduate members as well as a supportive group of alumni riders. We are proud to be the first intercollegiate team in North Carolina located at the heart of the 1862 Land Grant Institution, NC State University. We have riders just beginning their eventing careers as well as those that are seasoned competitors, competing from Maiden through Training level.
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Instructors
Dibowski Wants You to Feel the Rhythm at the 2020 ICP Symposium
Yesterday Andreas Dibowski said that he was ready for the “fun stuff” and today he had the chance to share his knowledge of both show jumping and cross-country to a large audience who attended day two of the USEA Instructors’ Certification Program (ICP) Symposium. The morning started out in the ring at Barnstaple South with three groups of riders – Beginner Novice, Training, and Preliminary, and three groups of the same levels took to the cross-country in the afternoon. While the exercises and jumps got progressively harder throughout the day, the warm-ups and themes stayed the same.
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Education
Top 10 Tips for Introducing Your Horse to Cross-Country with Tim Bourke
A horse’s first steps out in the cross-country field determine the foundation upon which his entire cross-country education will be laid. How can you give your horse the best chance of success? What are some of the ways you can help teach your horse about cross-country jumping?
Feb 17, 2020
Instructors
Andreas Dibowski’s Words of Wisdom From Day 1 of the 2020 ICP Symposium
The USEA Educational Symposium is a unique opportunity each winter for eventers to gather together to soak in knowledge. The first two days of the 2020 Symposium focus on the USEA Instructors’ Certification Program (ICP) with attendees learning how to be better, more effective instructors. German Olympian and world-renowned rider Andreas Dibowski is this year’s guest instructor and he spent the first day dedicated to dressage with one Advanced show jumping group to wrap-up the day. Dibowski taught the instructors to teach using demo riders and horses from Beginner Novice to Advanced of all ages, breeds, and sizes.
