I will keep my fingers crossed for my nephew this weekend 
http://rechenstelle.de/2015/luhmuehlen/luhm0_01b_sldre_abst.pdf
Good luck to your nephew Manni01!
Wishing him a good, safe run.
Here’s something that I don’t quite understand, and it’s primarily the German riders who are doing this. A good number of horses ran either Rolex at the end of April or Badminton May 6th-10th. Now, less than two months later, they are running another 4* event. Is there some German rule that 4* horses and Team riders HAVE to run Luhmuhlen?
Dibo is riding a pure TB who just happens to have all the foundation sirelines on his first page.
Go MJ!!!
What other events have the horses done in between? Maybe it has to do with Rio?
[QUOTE=vineyridge;8195973]
Here’s something that I don’t quite understand, and it’s primarily the German riders who are doing this. A good number of horses ran either Rolex at the end of April or Badminton May 6th-10th. Now, less than two months later, they are running another 4* event. Is there some German rule that 4* horses and Team riders HAVE to run Luhmuhlen?
Dibo is riding a pure TB who just happens to have all the foundation sirelines on his first page.[/QUOTE]
I was wondering the same thing. I mean two 4*s within the same season. It seems incredibly excessive. Jung has his two there. I guess a 1st and 3rd place Rolex finish wasn’t enough for the spring season.
It really is insane to me. Whatever floats your boat I guess?
I thought the same thing about Jung, I had to read it twice to confirm it was the same two horses.
Why?
Klimke is doing the same thing with her Hale Bob horse. Turns out that she’s doing in the CIC 3*.
I don’t know, but did you guys see this??
Holy Shitake :eek:! That drone really lets you appreciate the magnitude of the jumps. Which, by the by, is like TableTableTableCornerCornerCornerTableTableTable* WATER :lol: I’ve never seen so many corners in a row. DAAAAMMM
[QUOTE=ACMEeventing;8196251]
I don’t know, but did you guys see this??
Holy Shitake :eek:! That drone really lets you appreciate the magnitude of the jumps. Which, by the by, is like TableTableTableCornerCornerCornerTableTableTable* WATER :lol: I’ve never seen so many corners in a row. DAAAAMMM[/QUOTE]
That was my thought too - table… table… table… corner corner… table table table corner…corner… jesums… I loved #11, got a kick out of that. The rabbits later on in course too. Good god, those jumps are huge. I thought the DHL complex was interesting.
My first thought is that all those tables are bankable. I was exhausted by the end of the video. I think I hate that course. It looks incredibly unsafe to me.
Agree the course is not pleasant! So many narrow corners too.
Do the Germans have to run this for Rio? I’m surprised Jung isn’t aiming for Burghley instead.
Very neat with the drone!
Will there be video feed of the event?
ETA - Never mind, I see that it will be on FEI TV.
The European Championships are this year, but they are only 3*.
Holy heck, that drone camera. Those tables are massive. Make no mistake is all I can say. It looks to flow well with the galloping stretches. The course doesnt look super trappy to me, just a lot of skinnies in the combinations.
I think it will flow between combos, but its going to be a lot of accuracy to get through close to time. The course will eat you up if you drift during the combinations.
Well good luck to all. Very exciting about the Belgium riders great score after dressage. Motivation to get my dressage scores down. It can be done.
Maybe the Germans are testing their idea on riding in the Olympics over two XC courses 2 weeks apart ON THE SAME HORSES 
Always thinking ahead they are, so maybe they are in the testing phase…I say this somewhat sarcastically…
Not sure if 3 horses qualify as “a good number”, but Jung took some heat for the decision to run his horses again so soon (buschbeobachter.de for example). It’s anybody’s guess what the plan is behind this. And no, his horses have not been to a single event since Rolex.
Hale-Bob is doing the 3* after Badminton.
Tom Tom Go didn’t finish Badminton but was 4th at Houghton Hall (CICO3*) end of May.
Look at the dressage scores so far! I know they are dependent on the GJ, but there are already at least 10 with scores in the 30s. Perhaps that’s what is likely to happen if the GJ doesn’t contain Angela Tucker.
Leaderboard: http://tgl.luhmuehlen.de/sport
There are 11 under 40 and 19 under 46.
http://janssen.sportcg.net/2015/luhmuehlen/leaderboard01.html
Actually, it’s more like that all the german pairs who ran WEG last year (with the exception of Dirk Schrade/Hop and Skip) have been given a bye for the Euros this year. Not sure about Rio concerning Thomsen and Andreas Ostholt, but Auffarth, Jung and Klimke would just have to keep their horses going in some way, and there are no discussions about that. They are however not forbidden to do more. Jung, and imo also Klimke/Hale Bob, certainly are overdoing things this weekend! But heck, anything for attention, right!! 
I’m not alone in that thinking though.
About the course being of importance for Rio, the main goal for this year’s Luhmühlen is to be safe!!! Despite all the success, Germany is VERY critical about horses in sport, and especially about Eventing! It’s on TV again Saturdy and Sunday, it’s the same station as was last year, and they feel that they have to serve the general interest, rather than the Eventing scene…
So I’m hoping the course will ride far far better than the animation is suggesting.
As for Jung and Burgley, who says he’s not aiming at that too? Don’t know though, and again, the date of Burghley and Bundeschampionat (German young horse championships) clashes, and selling horses is were the safe money comes from for most german riders, and that might still apply even to Jung.
What worries me about this course are all the huge tables. Unless I’m wrong, tables are an invitation to rotational falls, far more than other types of fence. They are also not frangible. From what I recall from the video, there are very few frangible fences on this course.
