Oh no! Covert Rights also now sent to the hold.
I had heard from a friend who was volunteering there that the ground was quite hard but the turf was good. Wonder if that’s having an effect on the trot ups. Please keep the commentary coming!
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And KEC Zara sent to the hold too.
Omg Boyd is in a star spangled banner suit 
Thomas accepted!
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What in the actual F is Boyd wearing?!?! 
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I feel like this is an Oprah moment for the jog: “You get go to the hold! And YOU get to go to the hold! Everybody to the hold!” 
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Nerve wracking for the teams involved, but I’m glad to see the officials don’t mind sending a horse for a double check. I didn’t see anything obviously wrong for most of them.
Jollybo accepted upon representation! AP Prime has been spun 
he looks a little tired.
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I’m awful at seeing lameness, but AP Prime was just shuffling along the strip.
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Agreed. He didn’t seem to be very in it today.
Ya know, I hate social media in general. But when you compete at the most elite level of a sport, you are not on facebook in the evenings boo-hooing over the comment sections! The people I hate social media for are the pony clubbers, the novice eventers who think they did great finishing their level and then get blasted for getting left behind a jump or having unsteady hands.
When you play at the elite level, you are being televised worldwide and the stakes change. Sorry that is the price that these athletes pay along with celebrities.
As of last night, there was still no real update on Emporium from appropriate authorities (namely the event itself.) So the several hundred spectators who witnessed this horrific fall (unless they are on COTH) are left thinking the horse is dead. Not good PR in all honesty. It is not about being entitled to updates, it is about the black eye this sport already has and the people who want to see it disappear from the face of the earth. There is a huge thick line between minute by minute updates and a positive update on a horse almost a day after a horrific fall. It is called damage control and right now K3DE is failing at it miserably.
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Just wait until you see the nbc broadcast. They don’t even show much cross country, just have random interviews with people. It will be interesting how much they stream on Peacock.
And I doubt many people not familiar with the sport are going to a very specific website to watch.
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The Land Rover Kentucky Facebook page literally put out several statements both before xc concluded and through the evening saying Emporium was standing and being evaluated (aka okay!). We (the general public) don’t need to know more than that. The rider put out her own statement later with more details.
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CHICO’S MAN VDF Z sent to the hold
This is untrue. There were multiple updates on the official LRK3D facebook on both horses that had issues yesterday, Fleeceworks Royal and Emporium.
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Sedated and taken to Hagyard was the post I saw several times.
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My point was not comparing the type of competition in the two sports.
My point was that the NFL has more resources than almost every other sport in the US, from press coverage to medical staff to PR people.
If it sometimes takes them just as long to update us on the status of one of their human players, who are we to demand faster updates on a horse?
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Covert Rights accepted!
KEC Zara not accepted. I definitely saw some uneven steps there.
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Zoe’s KEC Zara was spun.
