And horses can really see blue so I wonder if the blue causes an optical illusion in the air with the ground dipping. Definitely something about it.
I did an event at Fair Hill last weekend and theyâve just built gigantic ones for the 5* there.
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When I wat at Badminton this spring they had resealable water cans
Interesting, whose the designer?
I was in Gibraltar earlier this year, and it was the first place I saw them. There was a vending machine which sold white cans with black text, similar to what I saw on the broadcast. Must be a U.K. company?
Regardless, an impressive change from handing out plastic bottles.
I think probably Ian Stark again.
several who had a refusal early on, chose to retire, possibly to re-route to something else in Europe in the next month or so, or to save legs on an older horse when the refusal took them out of the top 5 or 10.
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Correct
I didnât like the number of horse falls which seemed to be caused by the striding/jumps and not necessarily an actual error by horse or rider. (Errors by horses should not result in many falls eitherâŠ)
The corner after the Leaf Pit was unforgiving; if a rider didnât get in exactly right, and the horse tried to jump, it fell heavily. Same with the corner at the Trout Hatchery.
I agree with others about the first oxer at the Boot Hangers - it seemed like the horses werenât reading it correctly. Sure, the pins saved even heavier falls, but I donât think XC course design should result in two heavy falls and 1 âsavedâ fall (Kitty King) at the same jump. I recall one top rider (possibly not riding Burghley but commentating) in a XC preview mentioning they didnât like the look of this oxer.
Iâve hated the way designers have been painting the pinned oxers to look like show jumps. With the already light timber, causing airiness, they are not as inviting for the horses in the first place.
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I didnât love the course this year. I agreed with Pippa funnells comments about the oxers, that there were too many and that now pins were in place course designers could get away with maximum height and width everywhere on them which punished horses with big efforts. Pippa said if she had Barney or Bits N Pieces now they wouldnât have got round as brave and clever but wouldnât have had the endless scope needed.
I preferred Badminton which forced rider errors.
We think the corner in the water was due to approach and being skinny horses were just twisting or being slow in front. We wonât see that fence again IMO.
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I donât recall there being any falls at the Leaf Pit, just lots of run outs.
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Also, has show jumping started? My live stream still says itâs waiting to start.
The riders in 21-28th place have gone, top 20 start at 2.30pm UK time
Interesting. The live stream is stuck on an infographic saying SJ starts at 14.25. Thatâs an awfully long wait between everyone else and the top 20.
Iâm loving how quickly Burghley tv is getting their videos up, they clearly took note of the uproar at Badminton when it took hours and hours to post the XC. Yesterday theyâd clearly split the XC coverage into sections and had the first uploaded before the live XC coverage had finished.
Did take me a few minutes to find this morningâs vet inspection live feed as they had it listed as SJ though.
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I think theyâd rather hoped to have more than 28 horses complete XCâŠ
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Fair point 
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The grey early on fell, and I think possibly one more? At the third element. Just checked⊠the grey is Waldo.
Yes, Emma Hyslop-Webb. Iâm hoping eventing scores will have their usual function to look into the event statistics, as you can always see a fence by fence analysis of faults. Itâs currently linked directly to the burghley horse page so canât find the stats link yet.
