Off topic, but this is very much still that sport. Just happened to me this weekend, as a perfect stranger gave me a head’s up about a slippery spot on course as I headed down to the box.
It is still that sport!
Seeing asterix’s comment on the frangible pin thread
Off topic, but this is very much still that sport. Just happened to me this weekend, as a perfect stranger gave me a head’s up about a slippery spot on course as I headed down to the box.
I have to totally agree. For me, a huge reminder was when I did my preliminary move-up last August. From my blog:
I got off and got Keegan situated with Brigitte’s help and then went up to watch a bit of the jumping. I saw Sally jump the stadium, which was perfect. Just do it like that and all will be good (positive visualization is helpful, really!). I chatted a bit with Sally about the cross-country course. She told me to really stay upright and slip my reins over that table at 9 as it was quite a drop. I chatted with Jennie Brannigan who told me it would all be fine and that the corner to brush was a nice three if you pushed to the corner. Steph Butts let me know how her ride went as well. I headed back down less worried about 9, but still concerned about the Trakhner.
Brigitte had Keegan studded up for me, so we got him and me the rest of the way ready and I got on. Missy put sticky spray on my boots (first time I’d ever tried it - was this a good idea on event day - oh well too late to change that now). I was also riding cross country in my brand new saddle for the first time. It is a Ryder Saddlery custom monoflap. Very nice and a really great price. Ask me about going this route if you are saddle shopping.
I got up to the warm-up which wasn’t too busy. Bruce Davidson was setting fences for a student, so there was a good progression and Erin Sylvester was there and pictched in to remind me to keep my leg on and told me I looked set after a nice forward trip over the oxer. The stadium round went great. There was counter cantering as I had predicted in a COTH forum thread on the subject of lead changes in eventing, but it didn’t seem to matter. We came away with one rail (the out on the one stride where I pushed a little too hard for the longish distance). Even better, it all felt really easy. I’m sure I looked like a drunken primate, but it felt great.
Then over to cross country. Sally’s mom checked my girth and noseband for me (eventers are just so the best, despite the schedule not allowing Missy to help at the jumping, I felt like I had plenty of support) and after jumping the solid obstacle twice, I felt pretty ready. And off we went:
http://seema-thefloridachronicles.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-which-keegan-moves-up-and-rocks-on.html
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No. This is about making rules that make sense. This rule doesn’t.
‘You-break-it-you-buy-it’ might work for Pottery Barn, but on XC in eventing? There are hard rubs galore at the ULs, even various knocks and whacks that result in a crew of shirtless guys with power tools making repairs. This is part of the sport – the fences don’t come down (at least not until the frangible pin), and we accept that a horse might slither over a fence.
The frangible pin was designed as a safety device, not as a scoring element.
