Great Article About Courageous Comet and Becky Holder in Blood Horse
This article about Courageous Comet was published in The Blood-Horse of Sept. 18, 2010
One of Becky Holder’s all-time favorite moments aboard her retired racehorse-turned-eventing star Courageous Comet was his elated reaction upon completing his dressage test at the Kentucky Horse Park’s 2008 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day event.
“It was in front of a capacity crowd in the new grandstand, and he scored 39 penalties (low scores are the best in eventing), so he took over the lead,” said Holder, 40, who ultimately placed second in that year’s competition aboard the big gray horse, stamping a ticket to that year’s Olympics (the equestrian games were held in Hong Kong). “He stopped at the end of the task, and I saluted, and the crowd just went crazy.”
Check out the rest of the article on BloodHorse.com
And be sure to check out the live scores at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games this weekend to find out how Courageous Comet (he and Becky are one of two individual U.S. competitors… Karen O’Connor and Mandiba are the second). The first horse inspection will take place tomorrow morning at 9AM, and then we’ll know when our U.S. competitors will be riding.
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