Word on the street is the courses are large and scary for the level.
Trying to find some coursewalks, but google is not being my friend.
Any links? I’d love to see. Stuck at home this year.
Yes, I would be interested to see as well, though I thought at least for P and below the courses would be similar to the PC champs?
I would expect maxed out courses.
PC champs were pretty maxed out
Here’s a virtual coursewalk: http://eventingconnect.today/2016/08/30/take-a-virtual-advanced-cross-country-course-walk-at-the-aecs/
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Here’s a virtual coursewalk: http://eventingconnect.today/2016/08/30/take-a-virtual-advanced-cross-country-course-walk-at-the-aecs/[/QUOTE]
I saw this, but was looking for the lower level courses. Thank you!
umm…wheres the XC?? Seriously…a bunch of huge tables, flat faced corners and skinnies on flat manicured grass. Why don’t riders just do show jumping derbies instead, they would probably be winning a lot more money.
If this is the future of eventing I give it two thumbs down.
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Here’s a virtual coursewalk: http://eventingconnect.today/2016/08/30/take-a-virtual-advanced-cross-country-course-walk-at-the-aecs/[/QUOTE]
I was amused by the random photo of the running creek in the middle. It is not an obstacle, you are just going to ride by it. Did it really need to be tossed in there, “oh look at the pretty scenery you get to gallop by”?
I totally agree with Jealoushe. This is simply the Wellington showcase, perhaps on steroids, but not XC at all. The PTBs ought to, even if money is involved, put their collective feet down. How can the USEA still sponsor the T3D events for their value in training horses to go XC and then allow its championships to be THIS?
Maybe it’s an illusion in the photos, but that grass looks slick… More like a golfing green than galloping turf.
oh my god the shotgun jump[s]… L O L… i don’t know whether to laugh because it’s so absurd or just shake my head…
no but seriously, no one should have expected terrain and hills – this is Tyron, flat as a pancake; I expect illustrious CMP has maxed the height and technicality to cover for that… from the looks of the coursewalk, i’m not wrong.
i like the beehive fence. many of the fences look very forward and inviting - let’s just hope they are not all squished into the same tiny field like they were for the PC champs…
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umm…wheres the XC?? Seriously…a bunch of huge tables, flat faced corners and skinnies on flat manicured grass. Why don’t riders just do show jumping derbies instead, they would probably be winning a lot more money.
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Yes. :no:
The course looks like some sort of theme park.
As it was put to me by a long recognized organizer and TD welcome to ‘urban eventing.’ And she insisted that this is the economic reality; that we have to cater to the urban rider, to make things friendly for them to maintain their ‘business.’ So that was her opinion.
My opinion is that the above course looks plastic, and like a paved over parking lot covered with artificial turf.
Is it just the angles of the photos or do the vast majority of those fences have vertical or nearly vertical faces?
It’s so … Artificial looking. While having a couple cabins and such on a course is cute, that course just looks like you’re jumping through a damn theme park or something.
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no but seriously, no one should have expected terrain and hills – this is Tyron, flat as a pancake; I expect illustrious CMP has maxed the height and technicality to cover for that… from the looks of the coursewalk, i’m not wrong.[/QUOTE]
From the “A First Look At The Tryon AEC Track” article (COTH, June 2016)…
“They carved the last bits of track out of the side of the mountain at the beginning of this month,” said Phillips. “It’s not like any other track or venue in the United States in that you’ve got areas that are quite intensive and then quite long gallops in between on a track—quite a lot of it is based in the derby field, and then a lot of it is based down by the river. There is a lot of terrain. Horses will need to be fit when they go there. There’s more terrain here than any other course in North America.”
:lol:
:rolleyes::sigh:
http://coursemap.useventing.com/maps/advance.html
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From the “A First Look At The Tryon AEC Track” article (COTH, June 2016)…
“They carved the last bits of track out of the side of the mountain at the beginning of this month,” said Phillips. “It’s not like any other track or venue in the United States in that you’ve got areas that are quite intensive and then quite long gallops in between on a track—quite a lot of it is based in the derby field, and then a lot of it is based down by the river. There is a lot of terrain. Horses will need to be fit when they go there. There’s more terrain here than any other course in North America.”
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at first I thought you were arguing with me and saying there was plenty of terrain - my eyes just about popped out of my head! Sticky Situation - LOL!
Alackaday… see… I’m used to places like Huntington and SBHT… So ‘terrain’ has a little bit of a different meaning up here.
