I thoroughly enjoyed the USEF coverage and all of the comments on here. For me, the terrain was deceptive watching it on TV. It didn’t look all that hilly to me.
Loved seeing William in his final 5* run. He is one of my favorites.
I can’t wait until next year - I’m about to start planning a trip. 
I agree. It’s great to find something that works for your horse, but it’s not really fair to be angry that you weren’t allowed special accommodations and had to warm up the same way everyone else did.
The judge ringing the bell early sounds weird though … had that person never judged at a big FEI event before? Did someone pee in his/her cornflakes that morning? Were the time slots scheduled unusually short so that someone felt that was necessary?
Full disclosure: I don’t know who the film company was.
But I have a friend who works in this business and does filming/livestream of sporting events, including equestrian events. He is not a sports savvy person; he was a film major. He doesn’t know horses. Figure skating is his company’s bread and butter, yet he doesn’t figure skate. He gets production notes from the organizers on what needs to be featured and that info gets shared with his whole crew.
I don’t know if that’s the situation for this event, but I imagine most of the people running the cameras are not horse people and it’s hard to coordinate a lot of camera switches between riders.
Not an excuse! I’m just offering a possible explanation why XC livestreams are so frustrating for viewers. I feel like every major event we are all screaming at the screen saying “why aren’t you showing so and so’s ride!?!” 
is anyone watching the jog? I am disappointed in EN for this event. Usually, they are up on everything, but today, not so much. and I must confess, I use them as a passthru for most of the live feed, scoring, but this time, they have deleted the scoring! I have only found thru this thread. I can’t even find scoring on Maryland 5* site. I am somewhat tech challenged, but this is ridiculous. Overall, I am pleased with the competition, and hope that participation will grow.
On the Maryland 5star website go to competition, the results and order of go are there, tho they are hard to sort through on a phone … wish the jog was lovestreamed somewhere, i haven’t found it. https://www.maryland5star.us/ and here for results page https://results.hippo-server.net/2022/2181/html/us/hippodata/index.html
agree. I give her tons of credit for producing this horse and keeping him sound for years at this level. She needs to shut up or hire a social media censor to protect her interests, and focus on the future.
I remember Allyson and Arthur, after being left of the US Olympic team, went on to compete at Burghley and finish close to the top. there was a 2nd US rider also left off the team who did very well at Burghley, whose name I have forgotten. they clearly expressed their disappointment at being left off the team, but responded by proving their worth at one of the toughest events on the planet.
Seems like the request to warm up outside of the normal procedure and time a lot shouldn’t have been approved in the first place.
FULL SP and results;
https://rechenstelle.de/en/agenda/2022/elkton-md/
Prouction Co.; https://www.carrhughestv.com/
Just catching up on this topic so I’m sorry if this has already been addressed! Question: how did the 5* xc go from being hard to easy (maybe even too hard to too easy) between the time of the course walk and the time of completion? I’m truly confused as to why, given the riders’ read of the course, there were so many completions within time - though thrilled about lack of injuries
I think the issue was he had this all pre approved, and then they caused chaos for him right before he went in.
I believe he didn’t get any time in the warm up close to the ring, because they were too busy deciding what to do. That is not good.
Why? Horses aren’t robots, I think it’s wonderful they accommodate to make things better for the horses and how they work individually. If that is they actually went through with the agreement lol
I think the issue is the change in position.
I don’t personally think it’s unreasonable to ask ‘this routine works for this particular horse, could you please accommodate?’ nor is it unreasonable for the venue to say ‘unfortunately due to scheduling/timing/fairness we can’t facilitate that’ - at least then the rider can do what they can to prepare beforehand or make the choice that the expense of flying across the Atlantic may not be worth it.
The problem is (or at least this is the impression I’ve got from the HHO article and Harry’s interviews) that he was told that his warmup routine could be accommodated then this was either not communicated to the warm-up stewards etc or someone changed their minds so once he’d started to warm up was told he couldn’t follow the routine agreed. In this case I think that’s deeply unfair to him, and obviously disadvantaged his dressage score.
Anyone got trot up news/ results?
I didn’t see the bell issue but in the horse and hound article, it said that he had asked for permission to do his 10 minute warmup around the ring at a different time and then someone complained. I see both sides of it but part of the deal is that everyone has to do the same thing. Kind of weird for him to get special permission to do something that nobody else gets the privilege of doing.
I love Ian’s comments in the Horse and Hound article. And you can’t look at the leader board shake up and say that XC wasn’t influencing.
To me, what he did here was amazing for the sport. It rewarded bold riding, but did it safely. After Badminton this year I was basically done with 5* XC. I didn’t want to watch it real time anymore.
I think he will end up being one of the best and most respected in the industry.
That was interesting, thank you. But does generous time explain the lack of problems over the entire course? Do you think a 10-second lower time would have led to more penalties?
I agree with all of this 100%
I am here at Maryland and can speak to two things.
Harry was given permission to use his 10 mins in the white boards during a break. It did not interfere with anyone else’s time within the boards. A rider complained and it was a lot of drama getting it sorted. I think it could have been handled differently.
In terms of the bell ringing “early” I witnessed several of these being riders that were coming up late from the warm up. The riders that were given ample time around the arena were up at the entrance in plenty of time.
Just hopping in to say there is a speciific range for speed and distance that the course designer has to adhere to. For a 5star the distance has to be between 6270-6840 meters and the speed is 570 with time allowed between 11:00-12:00
the official length of this course was 6555 meters and the opt time was 11:30 Fair Hill is very hilly terrain too.
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