Showjumping Round 2: Sunday am

[Phyxius]

[QUOTE=willowoodstables;3449914]
The mikes are soooo close you can hear the shutter of speed cameras as horses go over the fences…I wasn’t sure what it was at first…but finally figured it out[/QUOTE]

At Rolex a couple years ago I was under the tree with a couple of other photogs and two guys were going gangbusters on the continuous highspeed. We had a good natured if slightly envious chuckle at them every time they’d machine gun it. Now that I’ve upgraded to a camera with one of the fastest frames per second I have to say that I prefer taking a single shot with good timing than 6-8 frames of crapshoot timing.

[willowoodstables]

[QUOTE=Gracious;3449950]
I love Mac’s horse but he does look a little sticky off the ground sometimes. Does anyone know his age/experience?

Here comes McLain!!! Go Sapphire!!![/QUOTE]

See my comments above…

Holy SAPPHIRE!!!

CLEAR

[Xx_Cory_xX]

Too bad about that first rail for Mac Cone. Ole is wonderful though, what a fantastic jumper! Just inexperienced…

And great round for Mclain War and Sapphire!

[BLBGP]

OK, maybenot so tricky!! GOURGEOUS round for McLain and Sapphire!!!

[quiet5]

YEAH!!!Love that pair!!!

[GreystoneKC]

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[Mayaty02]

WOW is all I can say about MCLain…the class of the class

[willowoodstables]

[QUOTE=Janie;3449946]
okay, I had to wait to see how Laurie went … He’s out after Mclain Ward, on another (better behaved) grey. You’ll report for your poor blind antipodean friend, woncha?[/QUOTE]

Blind friend…water got him so far

[GreystoneKC]

How did they make that look so easy!?!? And like an eq rider doing it too!

[squiggle]

WOO-HOO! GO MCLAIN AND SAPPHIRE!!!

[Heineken]

GO USA!!! Mcclain gave us a lovely start!!!

[dcm]

YES!! Double clear for Mclain! Woot! USA USA USA!

[Gracious]

Gosh I love that mare.

Did anyone else see how excited GM was after that?

Go Team USA!!

[J_Turner]

What a mare!!! Good girl, Sapphire!!! You are amazing. You too McLain. It looked like a Maclay Finals round.

[quiet5]

Notice Ward’s hands? He never lets his reins get long and Sapphire is always collected on the forward stride…Love that round.

[willowoodstables]

[QUOTE=Janie;3449946]
okay, I had to wait to see how Laurie went … He’s out after Mclain Ward, on another (better behaved) grey. You’ll report for your poor blind antipodean friend, woncha?[/QUOTE]

Blind friend…horse lost a little focus…16 faults

[Mayaty02]

[QUOTE=J. Turner;3449970]
What a mare!!! Good girl, Sapphire!!! You are amazing. You too McLain. It looked like a Maclay Finals round.[/QUOTE]

I was SOOOO gonna say that too

[Janie]

poop. Oh well. Thanks

[quiet5]

[QUOTE=Gracious;3449969]
Gosh I love that mare.

Did anyone else see how excited GM was after that?

Go Team USA!![/QUOTE]

An older version of Michael Phelps!

[sheltona01]

On a completely unrelated note, and I apologizes if this was already covered, but I love the countries emblems on the helmets. I have seen them on the Canada’s team helmets and some other countries. What a great way to support your country!