It looked like she just got a little close and the horse sort of shifted back to the right a smidge. I thought she met the last fence nicely, but there may have been a swap that I didn’t catch.
3rd Standby
After 150 of 178 horses have gone, the standby is as follows:
32 – Zayna Rizvi
83 – Grace Debney
101 – Catalina Peralta
58 – Tessa P. Brown
1 – Audrey Schulze
106 – Hensley Humphries
23 – Mimi Gochman
33 – Augusta Iwasaki
54 – Caroline Nadalin
47 – Alexander Alston
148 – Amira Kettaneh
49 – Eric Krawitt
70 – Tessa Downey
5 – Hannah Hoch
44 – Layla Kurbanov
90 – Cody Rego
14 – Campbell L. Hudkins
125 – Aristea Santoro
45 – Natalie Jayne
18 – Stella Buckingham
84 – Addison Reed
13 – Christian Dominguez
138 – Blythe Goguen
81 – Gigi Moynihan
I quite like Lauren Macaulley’s horse.
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After 150 riders, I count 40 that have had rails and at least 24 with swaps.
Nice round by Avery Glynn.
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Any idea what happened? He was such a cool horse.
Good for Sophia Olivero for digging in to get it done. I wasn’t sure, after the oxer-oxer 1 stride got so hairy, that she’d make it around.
An honest horse 
if it’s the one I’m thinking of.
Oof I’m glad to see she’s up, but man, that looked like it hurt.
Ouch.
I had just finished saying that I was worried that if the horse didn’t get its head down from the ceiling this rider might be due for a bad time. Bummer. I thought the rider was handling her horse very tactfully and doing her best to give it a positive experience. Hope she’s all right.
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Caroline Tinsley was beautiful!!
Good solid ride by Luke Jensen.
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That was a smooth, polished ride for Luke Jensen.
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I’ve just begun watching. The course looks deceptively difficult to me, what do you think about it?
I don’t particularly like it. I don’t think it’s inappropriate for the class, but there are some questions presented in a way that I don’t think is fair to some horses (and not testing riders - they’re there as a lazy weeding-out option, IMO).
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I’ve always wondered this - so many of these riders train with big name trainers who at times are out of state (or on a different coast!)
How does that work? Do they only train them at shows, is there feedback on video, etc?
This chonky little horse is so cute.
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When you spend 35 weeks out of the year horse showing, it’s easy to be trained by someone “only at the horse shows” and get a really good solid grounding in that person’s system. A fair number of these riders are enrolled in online school systems to enable them to be on the road pretty frequently. Or they may temporarily relocate (for the season, or for the end of the season) to a different coast.
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I kind of love it.
Since my horse is retired I’ve been watching the class with an eye towards the horse I would buy for my mother. (Because naturally of course I can afford a horse of this caliber for her without mortgaging my home. And hers.) That one is up in the top 3, but my favorite for her is Charlie from this morning. I loved Charlie. And I still think he should be given the best equitation horse award.
