Long Live the Long Format at Southern Eighths Farm, located in the middle of USEA Areas II & III on the North and South Carolina border in Chesterfield, SC, the Heart of the Carolinas Long Format Three-Day is the amateur rider’s “Rolex”. The place where Beginner Novice through Training level riders can ride their ultimate long format test in a recognized event. It is unlike any other horse trial.
The facility is designed to accommodate and maximize the long format experience. From its centrally located “holds” and “starts”, two steeplechase tracks and groomed “roads and tracks” to the special derby course used for show jumping, the Heart of the Carolinas event is the ultimate test. Whether it is testing your horse at speed on the Steeplechase or riding technically challenging cross country courses, this event will be memorable.
This is the opportunity of a life time for the amateur rider, the time where you, your horse and your support team all function as one to complete the traditional test of horsemanship. That moment where education and exhilaration meet.
To sign up for this great opportunity to participate in a rare USEA Recognized Training Three-Day, Novice Three-Day, and Beginner Novice Three-Day Long Format Event contact Foy Barksdale at (203) 605-5303 or email [email protected]
Classic Eventing programs are held at Southern Eighths Farm, a brand new state-of-the-art eventing facility that has been built with the pledge of educating the adult amateur. The 300-acre venue with pristine turf, boasts of two steeplechase tracks, hand-groomed trails for roads and tracks, and superior cross-country courses designed by Tremaine Cooper.
Heart of the Carolinas is the first SmartPak Equine/USEA Classic Series Event of 2011. For more information about the series visit the Classic page on the USEA website.
Riders in both the Cosequin Lexington CCI4*-S and the Defender Kentucky CCI5*-L are sharing similar sentiments about this year's cross-country courses: course designer Derek di Grazia didn't play around this year. Here is what some of the riders across both divisions had to say about the tracks they will aim to conquer on Saturday.
Off The Record decided not to let Michael Jung be the only record-breaking entry at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event this week and delivered a career-best score in the Cosequin Lexington CCI4*-S on Friday morning. He and Will Coleman delivered a test that received a score of 21.8, not only marking a personal best for the horse but also securing their position at the top of the leaderboard going into cross-country tomorrow.
Boyd Martin and the 12-year-old Holsteiner gelding Commando 3 were the last pair to go in the Defender Kentucky CCI5*-L field on Friday afternoon and were warmly greeted to the bluegrass with an impressive downpour that outshined anything the other horse and rider pairs had to combat throughout the day. But that didn’t stop this pair from putting their best foot forward and impressing the judges enough to earn them a score of 26.0, just 0.2 points ahead of second-place pair Tom McEwen (GBR) and Brookfield Quality.
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