I’m very bummed that I couldn’t make it this year in person bc my puppy and I had a great time last year, but thrilled that MPT gave us live coverage all 4 days (even if I could only watch 2 of them) and (more importantly) that everyone made it around safely! I thought the XC course did a great job of shaking the standings up and completely agree with Ian’s statement: “I would much rather see 10 get inside the time than five on the floor.” Hopefully the puppy and I will make it next year!
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As a vendor and a spectator I feel like things were vastly improved from last year. The most important part for us as the vendor was everyone was funneled through the vendor area on their way to XC unlike last year when it was a ghost town all day Saturday. Much more food and port a potties AND shuttles. Nothing is ever perfect but they seemed to learn from their mistakes from last year and actually changed for the better.
Thanks to all of you who stopped by our boutique and said hello, it was fun meeting you all.
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I’m very impressed that they took so much feedback, listened, and actually made improvements. As a volunteer, admission was so much easier vs needing to be on a list that half of us weren’t on and therefore did not get admission despite volunteering 5 or more days…
Food lines were still long at times, they always were. At least there were more than 3 trucks and on cross country day I was able to walk up to one place with no line. So much better than last year!
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I wasn’t thinking age (in fact until the commentators referred to her as the galloping granny, i guessed that she was in her 30s).
She has two solid top level horses. I have no idea what she or others have in their string coming up, but I think it has been a long time since anyone other than Boyd or Phillip were sitting on enough talented horses to be very competitive at WEG and a 5* in the same season.
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She’s literally a grandmother though!
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While everyone is on a 5* high….Kentucky tickets are now on sale 
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I did not mean to suggest anything negative.
it was just the way the commentators described her as the galloping granny, that struck me as cute and that she was probably 10 years older than I assumed.
Phillip Dutton is almost 60. Tamie is a grandmother, that’s why they called her that.
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I have to agree with her there. Especially if there was a rule the bell could be rung twice.
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Prize money distribution is show here https://results.hippodata.de/2022/2181/docs/20220_010_ersprges-1_abst.fr3-2.pdf?style=maryland
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Thank you! Big pay day for all!
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@punchy I didn’t know she was a literal grandmother!
Lauren’s post was very tactful and gracious. Hopefully in future there will be greater awareness of the rule (that a second bell is allowed at the judge’s discretion), although it won’t help her, sadly.
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I tried to say hi several times and kept catching your daughter!
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Oh shoot, sorry I missed you!
Quite the pay cut for Lauren though… Also for Harry if his dressage had kept to previous form.
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I haven’t seen any commentary or photos of Jump 21, the brush keyhole. It looks like a very small space, and I would love to see how horses jumped it!
On a positive note, after Badminton this XC course was a relief to watch. Perhaps the time allowed being a little more attainable had a positive influence on the safety of entries!
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Hi! Do you mean the owl brush fence 20? That was an option for the corners and I think the only one who jumped it was Woods as he missed one of the open corners. The corners were the direct route and no one would really do the owls unless they missed the corners.
