Let’s go Ros & Lord Graffulo. Been loving this horse since last badminton when he caught my eye.
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He’s certainly keen!
Was anyone else wondering if the Ground Jury would not allow OT to run his second horse? I see he just started.
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3 in 2022 and 2 in 2019. I didn’t look back any further.
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I don’t think they can eliminate him on the second horse.
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They just said that he was part of the Tokyo gold medal team on that horse. Who’s going to pull them off before they even started?
Someone said that owners need to stop giving horses to Oliver. Maybe the GBR also needs to stop giving team spots to Oliver. If they want him to stop.
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I was wondering if he was yellow carded, whether they might prevent him from running. But I think the FEI might not issue yellow cards til well after the event.
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Ollie has tons of yellow cards. They mean nothing! As I recall, he assaulted someone in the warm-up a few years ago.
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Izzy has a fall at the same fence she fell at with her first horse.
OT second horse looks tired too. Not as bad as SS but not great. Not even a pat for his horse who keeps jumping for him 
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My feeling about OT has always been that the horses are just vehicles for him. It’s really all about Ollie…
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Ugh, what a gem he is.
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Well in this case, Oliver’s horse got Oliver around. imo
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There would be an appeal process to follow anyway.
I only recall one rider being stopped from running their 2nd horse and that was Harry Meade at Burghley years ago. He was red carded on his 1st ride.
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Can we watch the last horses round instead of this interview lol
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Dans horse looks tired but traveling well and doesn’t look painful to watch the ride.
This is totally different than OTs first ride
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So quite a few more. Any ideas (anyone) re: why so many chose not to run today?
Some horses were withdrawn because they were new or newer to the level and their riders opted not to run them due to the ground conditions.
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The leaderboard has been tossed a bit.
Austin O’Conner & Colorado Blue come up to second from 34th.
Several people are now in the top 10 or top 20, coming from down in the pack. And of course some surprises of top pairs that didn’t make it around.
Rosalind Canter held her place in 1st. However, Dressage 2nd place kitty King is no longer in the running.
No double clears. The top two were the fastest rounds with 11 and 10 time faults. The others had 20 or more time faults. Some of them quite large numbers in time faults.
Some who had more than one horse seem to have decided that if the first horse got around the course, call it good and don’t ride again today.
But as best we know just after the last round is finished, there are no serious injuries.
I think that there will be a lot of discussion about today’s cross country. That getting around meant disregarding time. The horses not jumping well. The riders not staying on well. The many decisions to continue or retire. Or not run at all.
Should Badminton management made any decisions differently? Several fences were modified before the day. What else should’ve been, could’ve been done to ease the impact on the horses? As well as the riders?
Or is this just eventing as it is?
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I was thinking the same thing. If you’ve already expressed poor judgement by pushing an exhausted horse to the point the ground jury has to stop you, then surely you shouldn’t get the opportunity to do it to another horse the same day? Hopefully at the very least they have extra eyes on him.
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Usually the week or so after you can find it. I think the list is updated monthly
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