Further testing is at the discretion of the judges. If they feel like they’ve seen enough after the second round, they can just pin it.
Is that in any order?
The order for the second round is in reverse order of preference.
I only caught the third group (didn’t get the memo about the early start), but Annabel was hands down my pick for the top of that group based on only the flatwork. Didn’t really get too many of the other bays sorted out, but she stood out.
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Madison Goetzmann and Jordyn Rose Freedman flip flopped, Grady Lyman moved up, Katherine Dash moved way up, Annabel Revers and Alexandra Worthington moved down. Posted in reverse order of preference, and because I’m bored I calculated each rider’s position movement in the order:
139 Chloe Wilkenfeld - down 2 spots
165 Yazmin Rizvi - down 4 spots
116 Caroline Passarelli - up 2 spots
20 Tanner Korotkin - down 4 spots
142 Elizabeth McKim - down 2 spots
69 Natalie Jayne - up 2 spots
161 Hannah Doherty - down 2 spots
6 Emma Crosbie - up 3 spots
17 Katherine Dash - up 7 spots
155 Madeline Schaefer - same
27 Samantha Cohen - down 1 spot
73 Natalie Stoyko - down 2 spots
75 Daisy Farish - same
16 Abigail Brayman - down 3 spots
41 Taylor St. Jacques - up 4 spots
169 Cooper Dean - same
121 Alexandra Pielet - up 2 spots
36 Annabel Revers - down 5 spots
29 Ellie Ferrigno - up 1 spot
44 Alexandra Worthington - down 1 spot
95 Coco Fath - up 1 spot
72 Paige Matthies - same
166 Grady Lyman - up 4 spots
118 Jordyn Rose Freedman - down 1 spot
129 Madison Goetzmann - up 1 spot
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Wow. Wonder what we missed seeing that Annabel moved down.
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seems odd that there would be a super eq horse who sends the impression the rider is wagging his head. That’s what it looked like, or he was rein lame. Strange. It was very noticeable.
Can be hard to judge flat classes when you can see the whole arena, and we only got to see what the cameras showed us - kind of wish for these streams they would focus on the area in front of the judges and just stay there. At least these classes were a nice manageable size for the judges - I hate trying to judge ginormous flat classes.
I think out of the flat phase I enjoyed watching Alexandra Pielet’s horse “Common Sense” the most. What a fantastic animal!
I had a flashback to the days when the whole group would flat together in that tiny, skinny ring at the Garden.
Whoever first thought of splitting them into three groups was a genius.
The National Horse Show is doing a course walk on their Facebook page. Live walk with course designer Bobby Murphy.
COTH has course map up - looks like quite a challenging test - trot fence, hand gallop fence, two counter canter fences. I have a lesson in about an hour and a half so I think I am going to reluctantly sign off and avoid all social media until I can catch a replay of all of the o/f rounds. Bye bye…
Is anyone else having issues with EqSportsNet?
Works for me.
So far, the course is taking its toll.
No issues for me either. This course had definitely shown to be a challenge.
Tanner Korotkin understood that test well. He was not kidding around in the hand gallop. I would have liked to have seen him land the counter-lead to 9. I imagine that our top riders will do that. It will produce a better line to 10.
Well, Taylor has saved herself something to win next year.
Unfortunately it’s her last year I believe. She’s a freshman at Auburn
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Don’t know what happened with Coco Fath at the counter canter to the green gate. Couple of unexpected bad rounds.
IIRC it was last year’s Maclay where Taylor executed a very similar left turn counter canter where she landed the counter lead and maintained it while having a VERY close encounter with another fence, but made it happen and enddd up second. She tried to do it again this year but just ran out of room.
