Oh, that’s interesting! I’ve watched a zillion trot outs for endurance (I volunteer a lot as a vet scribe), and the general guidance is to give them their head and let them balance as they trot. I wasn’t sure how eventers approached it (I’m a fan but far too wimpy to do anything but trot through the cross country field, going well around the jumps 
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They are supposed to do the trot with a loopy rein to give the horses their heads, but I think eventers get a bit of a pass because a lot of them would be flying kites without a little extra control.
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Haha, totally understand! I’ve been surprised how mellow this bunch is looking.
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they are SUPPOSED to go long enough to see you aren’t holding their heads for lameness. I love to see the brave ones on the buckle!
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OK, I feel like the tassels on the ankle boots are not as useful for distracting from the horse’s jog since they stay a little bit below your eye level when you’re watching the legs on the horse. Lol.
The 2nd inspection is usually much quieter than the first since they’ve gone through XC by now. But as it is 47 degrees down there, that’s sometimes enough. Plus, fit event horses lol
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I have to say I was pretty surprised by that yesterday.
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they would probably be chasing the feistier ones down somewhere on XC if given a long rein in the jog.
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Maybe that’s why they jog them in somewhat of an enclosed space. Although obviously any of those horses could hop out over that fence if they decided to leave town.
Only Falco spun from both inspections, and overall a pretty happy and not too tired looking group!
i would have liked to see him continue at a trot for at least 10 seconds before carrying on, to better assess soundness.
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Something, anyway.
I mean, if they could hold that one horse yesterday to check for blood and then let him continue, it seems like they could have done the same for that Phantom horse.
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Thank you!
Does anyone know where that jog lane is relative to the rest of the horse park?
Agreed. Not a great look to not even seem like he checked that Phantom was in fact fine.
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23 proceeding to 5* show jumping.
I hope they are not split into two sessions. It makes sense if there are 30+, to split the top 20 from the rest, but not with only 23.
and from a selfish perspective, I am trying to watch as much as I can before going to see my own horse.
just checking with ESPN on ROKU at 9 am E college equestrian. and at 1 eastern on ESPN ROKU they appear to have sj! Hurray! give me back my computer!
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there is a split listed.
Wow, really?!? Is it the NCEA final from last week?
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1978 I was there too! 27 yrs old and all googled eyed. ahh the serpentine remember.
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