I am so happy for Tiffany! She must be thrilled!
Tiffany looked amazing! What a round!
very impressed with Tiffany… She has improved and grown so much since London and her cries!! Well done.
Now Amy…very nervous!
Barron- what a great horse, superb ride. Lucy
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Somebody posted that if you follow the link from the main page on CBC’s site, you get the Sportsnet stream (including commercials), with Ian. Go to the schedule/results tab, then click on the green arrow and you’ll get commercial-free with British announcers![/QUOTE]
thank you! Mystery solved!! I would not have thought of going to the results page to get the live stream, but…
Ba ha ha, “Verdi is so on his forehand he almost needs a wheel on his nose.” Incredible how the Dutch are able to peak these horses for the big championships without overtaxing them in between. He jumped superbly!
Can someone explain the rankings? I heard Steve say Jerome D was 41st or so in the world, and Kent F was 4th. Now granted, I don’t follow SJ all hat closely, But Steve even said if he managed to win individual He would be World, European, and OC on one horse. My thought like Mikki Jung. How does that rate so far behind Kent? Sort of the same for Boyd in rankings. He is always in top ten, while often finishing in top ten, how do these happen?
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Can someone explain the rankings? I heard Steve say Jerome D was 41st or so in the world, and Kent F was 4th. Now granted, I don’t follow SJ all hat closely, But Steve even said if he managed to win individual He would be World, European, and OC on one horse. My thought like Mikki Jung. How does that rate so far behind Kent? Sort of the same for Boyd in rankings. He is always in top ten, while often finishing in top ten, how do these happen?[/QUOTE]
Riders can pile up points on multiple horses and while Jeroen rarely has more than two 1.60 horses at a time, Kent has up to five at a time jumping very competitively. Can’t remember them all, but Gazelle, Uceko, Creedance, Bellefleur and formerly Blue Angel and Willow helped him along.
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Can someone explain the rankings? I heard Steve say Jerome D was 41st or so in the world, and Kent F was 4th. Now granted, I don’t follow SJ all hat closely, But Steve even said if he managed to win individual He would be World, European, and OC on one horse. My thought like Mikki Jung. How does that rate so far behind Kent? Sort of the same for Boyd in rankings. He is always in top ten, while often finishing in top ten, how do these happen?[/QUOTE]
Kent rides a LOT of horses I believe, and does a lot of competitions, so by pure virtue of showing up more frequently at big events I believe Kent has accumulated more points. The Dutch tend to pick a few competitions and build their horses up to those, rather than riding year-round, almost every weekend from what I’ve seen.
Amy had a real bad ride…definitely a drop score. Felt bad for her…
Ugh…Amy Millar has 12 faults on Heros. Hoping this will be our drop score but Canada can now have a best team score of 8 faults.
Ah, damnit, rough go for Amy and Heros, just wasn’t their day 
Here’s hoping Eric and Lady come through for Team Canada today!
argh… Amy… I was so nervous… fingers crossed with Eric!!!
ahhh Bosty, can’t watch, too freaky for me…
France just secured the gold medal with a 1-time-fault round!
So sad for Amy, just had one of those days. She’s ridden extremely well and should be very proud overall!
Wow, France, way to hang in there- first Ryan out, then Flora with colic, then Penelope falls off- and they still win!
McLain and Azur with a lovely double clear round. Team USA now sits on 4 faults.
AMAZING!!!McLain!!! Love that mare!!
Yay, McLain!!! He is one of my favourite riders, great job for Team USA!
