He almost fell a few other times as well and there’s already posts all over FB
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For anyone who missed it, they said the coverage would resume with the five star show jumping at 2:15 PM Eastern.
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I’m not defending Calvin’s decision to continue or the officials for not pulling him up. What I’m saying is that only his hip touched the ground, which does not meet the definition of a horse fall per the FEI rules. Though I think that rule was put in place more so for the situation of Karen O’Connor’s epic gymnastics after her horse slipped than Phantom literally lying on his stomach, which could have happened without his hip touching the ground too.
Ultimately, it’s up to the officials and membership to bring rule changes to bear. Maybe this will lead to a change in the horse fall rule.
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I also noticed on the official schedule that “first group” will start at 2:30, and “second group” at 3:00. So they’ll have 3 jump and then wait 20 minutes for the next group? Or maybe split 11 first then top 12 
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Dragging the ring?
I think that’s a possibility, but I’m not sure how they’d word it.
is the jump order posted anywhere?
I would think it would make more sense to split them evenly if they want to do it in two groups.
I did see these spots in the order posted on Facebook.
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TBH me neither. This is the rule as it’s currently written:
549.5.2 Horse
A Horse is considered to have fallen when, at the same time, both its shoulder and quarters have
touched either the ground or the obstacle and the ground or when it is trapped in a fence in such
a way that it is unable to proceed without assistance or is liable to injure itself.
Maybe they could add in “or stomach” after “shoulder and quarters”, but it would most likely require a rewrite of the whole rule.
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Thanks!!!
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So 13 first group, 10 second group. Can’t really call it “top 10” when 3 of the top 10 have to go in the first group for timing issues 
I’ve refreshed but I have nothing now.
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thanks skipollo!
it is looking like it will b e available on internet ESPN it sez my event is about to begin…
You have time, people are still walking the course and then they have to re drag the ring.
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I wonder what Vermiculus is doing now.
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Clip my horse says 13 more minutes
Same here…
