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Apr 08, 2024
USEA Podcast #358: The Kiwis Have Come to Kentucky
The USEA Podcast gets a fresh new perspective from interim Host Rosie Russell as Nicole Brown takes some time to enjoy the newest addition to the family, a beautiful baby boy! The USEA sends all of our love and congratulations to Brown and her family.
In this week's episode, Russell chats with New Zealand riders Matthew Grayling and Monica Spencer, both of whom have spent the start of the year competing in the U.S. in preparations for Kentucky. Hear all about how Grayling balances a dairy operation and his eventing goals at the age of 60, why Spencer is now calling the U.S. her home base, and so much more in our Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event preview episode!
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Apr 29, 2024
Education
Fieldwork for Eventers
One of the important concepts that event riders of all levels should understand, and practice is how the dressage flatwork carries over into the show jumping and cross-country phases. Don’t forget, the word dressage, translated from French, literally means training.
Apr 28, 2024
Eventing News
Townend Takes His Fourth Defender Kentucky CCI5*-L Win on a Special Mare
While Oliver Townend and Cooley Rosalent started the weekend at the Defender Kentucky CCI5*-L a bit down the leaderboard in a tie for eighth after dressage, the world No. 1 can never be ruled out for a five-star win. Townend and “Rosie” climbed the leaderboard yesterday with just .4 time penalties on cross-country, and today they earned a nail-biting win after both the leader, fellow British rider Tom McEwen on JL Dublin, and second-placed Brit Yasmin Ingham on Banzai du Loir, had single rails over Steve Stephens’ show jumping course.
Apr 28, 2024
Competitions
It All Comes Together for Coleman and Diabolo in Kentucky Cosequin CCI4*-S
Will Coleman gets cold calls for horse sales all the time. So when he got an email from agent Sharon Ridgeway who was representing a horse in Australia, it almost went in the bin with the rest of them.
Apr 28, 2024
Eventing News
One Withdrawal in Final Horse Inspection of Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI5*-L
The Ground Jury was busy this morning assessing the 40 horses that presented in the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event Cosequin CCI4*-S and the remaining 25 pairs in the CCI5*-L.
