2024 Maclay Final Thread

With a track like this, they really have to have the horse right with them every single step of the way around the ring.

It’s so funny to compare the courses today to the occasional older course that pops up online from decades ago. They weren’t quite twice around the outside, but by comparison, it almost seems like it.

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Not Eleanor’s day, which is quite unfortunate. She just couldn’t get her pace right.

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What do you think of the pared down numbers this year? So far, I haven’t seen anyone who looks really out of their league.

I saw it and thought she did such a slick job reclaiming it through the rollback (I think) only to have a rail (or something went awry a little later) after all that.

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She SO good and such a hard worker. She rides as 15, so a few more chances!

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Oh good! Truly glad to hear that.

I like the fact that the course looks reasonably doable for just about everybody. The better riders will make it look smoother, as we have seen.

But I think we’ve only seen maybe one refusal so far after about 30 have gone, which I think is an encouraging sign. I don’t know if that would be any different if there were another 25 or 50 riders involved.

I do think it is a really tricky balancing act to build a course that will separate them all but still allow most people to get around.

I also feel like the relatively conventional jump construction this year might be helping with that. It looks pretty, the pictures will be nice, and some of the standards are very artistic.

But the jump components themselves are not terribly different from what the horses see the other 364 days of the year, which I like.

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That was lovely, Anna Markrow.

Wait, was fence 2 not put back up? Anna Donovan had a quite lovely round despite that!

No, it wasn’t! Nice round anyway.

Ariana looked great!

I hope Ariana goes to the top of the standby with that trip!

Lovely trip by Ariana. And a nice one by Quinn.

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Top 24:

ST # RIDER NAME R1 AV
1 40 ARIANA MARNELL 92.5
2 19 VIOLET TATUM 86.5
3 33 KAITLYN LINCK 86
4 42 QUINN HUNTER 85.75
5 21 MADISON RAMSEY 85
6 36 ANNA MARKCROW 83.75
7 5 VIVIAN GOLDEN 83
8 29 AVA BARNES 81.5
9 34 KATHARINE REUTER 81.25
10 45 PARKER PEACOCK 80.375
11 38 ANNA DONOVAN 77.375
12 31 SOPHIA DELELLIS 77.25
13 26 EVA MACKENZIE 76.25
14 43 ASHLEIGH COLANTUONI 76.125
15 10 LOGAN THOMAS 76
16 15 LILY KOSAL 75.5
17 2 CAMILLA JERNG 75
18 27 SOPHIA SEGESMAN 74.875
19 6 CAMPBELL BROWN 72
20 37 CAPRI TRUESDALE 71.875
21 32 LILA KIMREY 71.75
22 41 ISABELLA SALAS 71.125
23 22 CECILIA CHATTERJEE 71.05
24 25 MADDIE FIGGIE 71.005

Found here with all scores so far: https://maclay.stallinfo.net/dl/da19fa

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Can someone share the link to the live feed? The link on the first post of this thread takes me to the beginning of the broadcast and won’t let me fast forward to live. Thanks!!

And Clip My Horse craps out again…

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Hmm. That seems odd. Is this any better?

It should come as no surprise that my stream is no longer working…

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Did the screen freeze for everybody else?

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