I am so glad to have NBC continuing to cover the eventing for us!!! I really enjoyed watching the solid equine coverage of the Olympics as well as Rolex. Thank-you so much! And hang on to Wofford- he is a treasure!
did I read correctly? Heelean Tompkins and her TWENTY year old Glengarrick went clean on this X-C course?
wowsers.
I agree?? Is that correct??
yes it is
Yes, check the x-country results here:
http://results.aachen2006.de/Resultpage/Eventing/C1b.asp
They were 5th in x-country only, no faults.
Pretty neat 
Which fence did Dan have a problem with, and Woody–were his run outs at the same fence–and what happened to Connaught and Dutton, and also to Donna Smith (Call Me Clifton), who retired on course, I think?
If you check the individual results page on the official Aachen website, it tells you were each rider had problems. Its under where the time faults and jump faults are… if these are 0,0 then nothing, but if they had jump problems it tells you how many times and at which fence.
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did I read correctly? Heelean Tompkins and her TWENTY year old Glengarrick went clean on this X-C course?
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Yep. I saw that horse make Rolex look like a starter event when he was 15!! back in 2001.
She is a great rider and she owes much of that to this horse. He is going down in my book as one of the top 10 event horses of all time.
Oh and here’s his record of big events:
http://www.bdwp.co.uk/cgi-bin/ds.pl?qs=GLENGARRICK&exactMatch=Yes
~Emily
Xctrygirl-- I see the horse was 3 for 3 with Blyth Tait riding… (surprise, surprise!)
why was he riding for a time?
what a horse indeed, to go so well for more than one rider!
definitely in the Hall of Fame of Sport Horses, no matter what discipline.
I found this link it shows pics of the x-c jumps. They are very beautifully built and one can hope that this Course will not be a one day wonder.
http://www.rechenstelle.de/html/veranstaltungen/aachen/2006_08/fence/index.htm
I’ve tried to find that, gayhawkeye, but I’m just getting the charts with the placings, time and time penalties (and it doesn’t stay in English, either). Do you have that link? Thanks.
from COTH’s own report<g>
<<U.S. individual riders Karen O’Connor and Jan Byyny each had troubles on course. For O’Connor, Upstage didn’t like the narrow fence at 15C or the corner at fence 25B.>>
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I’ve tried to find that, gayhawkeye, but I’m just getting the charts with the placings, time and time penalties (and it doesn’t stay in English, either). Do you have that link? Thanks.[/QUOTE]
http://results.aachen2006.de/Resultpage/Eventing/C1b.asp
You’ve got the right link, but you must scroll down through the competitors to reach the individuals that did have jump penalties (versus the clears at the top of the placings). In the Cross-Country column, look below xc time and you’ll see at which fence the refusal occurred. For instance, 1r 5, 2r 8, 1rfR9 equates to 1 refusal at 5, 2 refusals at 8 and 1 refusal and fall of rider at 9.:eek:
Looks like 5, 15c and 27a were the bogey jumps. All of the big names from old style eventing had their refusals on one of those three jumps.
