Maclay finals

[skydy]

Rushing?

[steelerino]

I interpret it as getting there too soon

[Amy3996]

I think that expression is more reflective of the rider overdoing it or chasing the horse to a fence or down a line.

Not so much rushing in the sense that the horse anticipates or overdoes it.

[MHM]

@steelerino

I’m going to start a drinking game. Taking a shot to the phrase “over cooked” I suspect I’ll be wasted in about 1hr lol

I’ve been thinking the same thing. I’m guessing it may have originated with her trainers, since both Ava and Zayna seem to use it, and they rode with the same barn.

Unless Zayna just picked it up from Ava today. Lol.

[Jackjoe11]

In my opinion it look like Charisma has lost a little bit of his scope button and he hesitated leaving the ground.

[Renn_aissance]

My husband just walked downstairs as the last rider turned down to the rainbow box and said “why are they jumping a Crayola box?”

This perhaps serves @Darkwave’s point.

[MHM]

@kenyarider

I listened to Bobby Murphy on something (Instagram or commentary) and he said that the point of the Equitation jumps was to present an unobstructed view for the judges. Hence, the odd (IMO) looking eq jumps this year and in past years. I guess that’s the trend now so that the judges don’t have to peer around the standards.

Honestly, I wish more course designers would pay attention to that aspect in all three rings. Sometimes the jumps are so built up that the judges can hardly see across the ring.

[jvanrens]

@Renn_aissance

My husband just walked downstairs as the last rider turned down to the rainbow box and said “why are they jumping a Crayola box?”

This perhaps serves @Darkwave’s point.

It reminded me I needed to pick up some paint chips when I was at the hardware store this afternoon. Unfortunately I think they were some I already have. Guess my choice is going to be one of those.

[MHM]

@blackbeauty

the rainbow walls are a bit much, but i prefer that accuracy question to a huge oxer oxer scope question.

I find the fence design very interesting, almost like cross county jumps some of them

For those who missed it earlier, they were saying that there was a contest for the students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to create some jumps for this class, with the winning jumps being incorporated into the course.

So maybe that’s why some of these obstacles look a little different.

Edited to add: They just said the two winners from the SCAD design contest were jumps 9 and 12 (the last jump).

[Renn_aissance]

I can’t decide if the jump I most want to have set up in our ring is that beautiful triple bar painted to look like a stone wall overgrown with clematis, or the stairstep faux brush.

[Amy3996]

I love the active ears on Skylar Gurtis’s horse.

[MHM]

It seems like there have been multiple Skylars in the class today. Is that a common name now?

[Renn_aissance]

“You sure about that, Mom? It looks like Rainbow Brite. You’re sure? Okay, I guess. I see it, I got you.”

[MHM]

I’d like to see what the triple bar looks like from the front.

[Renn_aissance]

We’ve gotten a couple of glimpses, and the paint is the same front and back. Here’s a pic the Chronicle took that gives a closer look. ETA I guess it’s roses, not clematis. You can probably tell what I’ve got doing a late fall bloom right now!

[MissIntent]

Not sure on Skylar, but watching these classes in 2017 and seeing how many kids were named Isabel (or some variant) is part of the reason that isn’t my daughter’s name now.

[skydy]

I think Skylar is a modern spelling of the name Schuyler just as Makayla or McKayla is an americanization of the Irish name Michaela, the feminine form of Michael.

[MHM]

Cool, thanks!

Edited to add: Is that Maddie Tosh in the picture? I think she is the only one I remember on such a dark gray horse.

[Darkwave]

They were supposed to be on the flat phase by 3:50

[quietann]

Wait how long does this go on???