http://eventingnation.com/length-of-tryons-world-equestrian-games-cross-country-course-in-question/
Sounds like the FEI found a way to make the XC course a derby…solid showjumping, anyone?
I really enjoyed this part:
An FEI spokesperson confirmed to EN…:“Work on the cross country footing at Tryon is ongoing as there is an area on the course that has been impacted by recent heavy rain. This may have a bearing on the length of the course…”
Doug Outlaw, a spokesman for the National Weather Service’s Greenville-Spartanburg office, told EN that the rainfall total of 3.81 inches for July to date is “exactly normal” for the area surrounding Tryon during this time of year.
EN is not usually so blunt in pointing out that the FEI is, at best, making absolutely no sense.
Also worth noting that at least one national team (Australia) is making team selections on this basis. I’d be willing to bet my entire bank account that they are not the only ones. So much for the best in the world…
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Considering how the AEC have gone the last couple years at Tryon , I’m not surprised it is happening to WEG either.
P.
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I am in Maryland and we’ve had sudden intense rains, so if Tryon is anything like that I can see it. However given the EN article that sounds like it might not be the case. I was expecting disappointment, so can’t say I am surprised.
Its a bit of a joke. Riders better bring their very best showjumpers I think a rail will be costly.
Does it matter if its wet…its WEG. Eventing is about braving through imperfection.
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1014 WEG was very, very wet.
Bellissimo probably can’t afford to finish the course.
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Sounds like they haven’t built the actual terrain up and are worried it will collapse due to the wet. Seems a little late in the game to still literally be building a course that is meant to have established turf (ha).
“1014 WEG was very, very wet.” Who won that year? The Gauls, the Saxons or the Celts?
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Isn’t this the same place that was supposed to have a course for Pony Club nationals and AEC and did not?
So irritating. It’s going to be a snot show.
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Just a little LOL you would think the turf would be established and many practice runs done by now. What a joke. Embarrassing.
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So, I mean, they have had some heavy rains, but IT HAS NOT BEEN A WET YEAR IN WNC. They have had AVERAGE rain fall. The heavy rains this spring and early summer caused some very unfortunate mudslides, but nothing that should have interrupted course building. we are THANKFUL for the rain, because the hay has been good. This whole thing is just irritating.
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Feeling good about my decision not to buy WEG Eventing tickets!! I already thought the course probably wouldn’t be great, but this is ridiculous. And if you are a rider, how do you feel good about bringing your horse to run on that ground at this point??
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Exactly. Or a team rider who will be bumped because their horse isn’t a derby horse?
WEG is just a 3* for heaven’s sake. Hasn’t Tryon been hosting Advanced and 3* competitions for a couple of years? How hard can it be to upgrade an existing 3* track to WEG standards? Especially if the quality of Tryon courses is already decent?
Of course, Tryon may never have done a CCI 3*, but the WEG course was planned to be the shortest CCI 3* distance in the beginning.
COTH has an article about the endurance course designer, and it doesn’t mention any unusual conditions this year that hampers HER course creation.
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The problem is the courses haven’t been decent they’ve been a joke that no one was willing to go on record about bc everyone assumed they’d get their act in gear for the real thing.
Which clearly hasn’t happened.
On a more positive note while having a derby xc for WEG all but guarantees ML will be a team rider the lack of terrain should allow her to ride the entire course like a longer SJ and make it less likely she’ll need to rip off her horses face to rebalance and less likely to make it bleed. So that’s something I guess.
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I don’t get why they’re bothering with things like ‘terrain’ when they can just put a few portables in the arena and call it ‘eventing’.
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The H&H story quotes Mark Phillips as saying they haven’t even laid the “all weather” footing for the driving and endurance course, which share part of XC in eventing. The “all weather footing” also hasn’t been laid in the main arena, which might affect show jumping as well.
https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news…ndworks-660379
Bellissimo “saved” WEG to kill it.
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OMG what a cluster f****
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The plan is to run the course across an area due to host the driving competitions and the endurance vetgate, which will have an all-weather surface, but this suface is not yet in place. The course will then run on to grass for a further 400m or so and then back onto an all-weather surface in the main arena, where the course will finish.
Read more at https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/weg-cross-country-length-risk-weather-hits-groundworks-660379#Py4h8TfYQ4muIGSR.99
Um does this mean the entire XC is on an all weather surface but 400m?? :eek:
Mark also told H&H that as of this evening (Friday, 27 July), all the turf has been laid so the only area of ground preparation still to do is the all-weather in the driving and endurance area.
Read more at https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/weg-cross-country-length-risk-weather-hits-groundworks-660379#Py4h8TfYQ4muIGSR.99
So the turf has been laid on the XC but for some reason it isn’t good enough to have the XC on it. Driving and Endurance are SOL.
Every time there’s more/updated information about WEG, I become more and more glad that I didn’t spend all that money on tickets.
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