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The website appears to be down. I’ve been trying it for hours (insomnia)
I don’t believe it starts for another 20 minutes 
Bad news for middle of the night entertainment, but you haven’t missed it yet!
Stream just came up on H&C (you will need to pay for the subscription for today, as opposed to dressage). First horse leaves the box in 9 minutes.
It’s actually on Youtube - they are streaming the x-country.
A horse just came a cropper in the water complex; tripped, rider came off, horse was limping badly behind as he led it out. 
LOTS of skinnies, but so far just a few glance offs.
You can access the live feed from their fb page too.
The horse that came up very 3-legged was Archie Rocks.
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Yes, that was upsetting to see.
Yes, YouTube stream, or paid H&C stream if you’d like English commentary.
Rough day for Ludvig Svennestral. He didn’t complete on any of his 3 horses.
Ludwig is very open about his policy of retiring if he has a single penalty. He won’t continue if he isn’t competitive.
I feel bad for Tim Price. Second time falling off in the water due to a horse stumble when he was on a 5* winner with a good shot at another win. Tim seems to have cycles of bad luck sometimes. I’m not sure if anyone would say he should ride differently into water, but I’m sure he’ll be asking himself that.
The image I can’t get out of my head is the frightening horse fall when a rider, out of control with a piece of broken tack (suspect it was the martingale) was unable to steer and his horse tried to jump a huge unjumpable palisade. I hope he recieves a yellow card and that the horse is ok.
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I saw him interviewed recently, and he said if he has a stop or runout, he retires. I am guessing he doesn’t want to risk the horse, but I would certainly jump at least one more fence so the horse doesn’t get to thinking, hmm a stop, and we’re through!
About Archie Rocks, weird that 3 horses fell there, (and one was the unfortunate Tim Price,) and they were in the water, not even to the jump. It makes me wonder if it was deeper, and the drag upset the momentum. Archie seemed to plow on and smashed into the jump. And speaking of smashing into the jump! Raphael had a broken rein and tried to jump that massive dividing wall and literally face-planted into it. I didn’t appreciate the rider throwing his tack all over, he should have been concerned about his poor horse.
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“The image I can’t get out of my head is the frightening horse fall when a rider, out of control with a piece of broken tack (suspect it was the martingale) was unable to steer and his horse tried to jump a huge unjumpable palisade. I hope he recieves a yellow card and that the horse is ok.”
Yes, just saw that. It was Jack Pinkney on Rafeal. That was not the first tack breakage I saw while watching, and it looked like Jack was having steering issues without the tack- so he should have pulled up, rather than waiting for a big accident like that to happen. He was throwing off his own equipment, threw his crop down, threw his jacket down- looked like a 4 yr old. Poor horse! When your tack fails, it is not the horse’s fault, dude- it is your fault! People like that give eventers a bad name and rep.
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He was pretty close to the end of the course and had been managing the horse quite well (who looked very difficult)…the horse not only smashed into the wall…he smashed both of them into the wall. He was then pulling off his equipment and heading after his horse. I’m sure frustrated but also hurting…they showed him back with his horse and he didn’t show any anger and wasn’t rough with his horse at all.
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Full replay is available on youtube. Search 5 etoiles de Pau.
Results show Ludwig Svennerstal with two eliminations and one reitrement.
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Did I say something different? He had a runout, and he retired.
Actually, he had two falls and a runout.
Although I didn’t get to watch all of the Pau XC today, what I did see makes me say this. Why were so many, many flags hit/knocked down at Fair Hill when I only saw 1 flag get knocked today? (There were 2, 15 pt penalties on the scoreboard).
Were the flags at FH attached differently than at Pau or was it just that the skinnies at Pau weren’t as skinny as at FH and/or the skinnies at FH were really too skinny. I hate the 15 penalty rule the way it is now. Watching stadium at FH, some of the horses twisted over the jumps to make sure they got their back feet out of the way. If the stadium jumps were skinny, they would have knocked the flag down. Horses sometimes need to twist but it doesn’t mean they are not jumping the jump.
Mary in western NY
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I saw one horse that truly didn’t go over the fence, but I think that rider retired. There were way too many skinnies and corners. Hard turns to skinnies.
I did not watch the live feed and read this thread before looking at any results. The way this thread had evolved wrt the discussion of Ludvig and the emphasis on his retiring if he is not having a competitive run led me to think he had retired all three horses. I was surprised when I looked at the results in more detail and saw he had a horse fall and a rider fall and only one retirement.
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