Me too, so long as I don’t have to scrub him. Kudos to his grooms.
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Irrelevant comment: can someone on the grounds please get a paint pen and put the apostrophe on the Trainers’ Stress Box sign?
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Bummer swap for Kate. She tried to hold him on it and he just stepped right.
Oh no, Clara! 
Oh goodness 
Clara was having a pretty nice round too.
That’s a lot of people coming into the ring and it looked like it hurt. I hope she’s okay.
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Are the riders using a longer stirrup in the EQ than they used to?
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A couple of them have looked a half hole or a hole long.
Blessedly fine and glad to see her pat the horse after, but I still would’ve liked to see her walk her own horse out instead of the groom.
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I noticed that at the Capital Challenge as well.
I thought the same, but for all I know the groom got hold of the horse and settled them before she was up and out of her vest and they just wanted to get everyone situated.
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I’d typically agree with you but she fell HARD. I’m just glad she got up and seems relatively uninjured. She seemed to handle a tough situation with grace - I’m not inclined to nitpick beyond that.
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I don’t love the Swedish oxer with the offset groundline. Stewards and schooling supervisors spend a lot of time in the schooling area telling people not to set offset groundlines…
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Can Ironman have a redo at that fence since he saw something in the stands? What a BUMMER.
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What an unfortunate spook, that was such a wonderful round otherwise!
That was a bummer for Blake - no idea what he saw down there. She handled it well, but her trip had her right in the mix.
That’s true and I probably wouldn’t have nitpicked either if the camera hadn’t followed the team whole way out of the arena. This was my visceral reaction.
It seems like there have been a bunch of uncharacteristic blips in the top 10.
This is seemingly anybody’s class today!
