The Baran

[LovesHorses]

Assuming she is referring to Hesslink.

[Hunterammy2020]

Bingo.

[Tackpud]

@vxf111

I suspect we are allegedly circling in on the name of one of the people that caused USEF to start testing horse hair because people were using euthanasia drugs to calm horses.

Watch out - cease and desist letters will be headed your way after they return from Europe

[Tackpud]

@LovesHorses

Assuming she is referring to Hesslink.

Cease and desist letters might be headed your way for stating this name!

[Hunterammy2020]

You’re sadly not incorrect by saying that from all
I’ve been told Will be interesting to see with the hair testing if any consequences or the “right”people will be tested. I’ll believe all the rules are for vanity until I see one of them actually get sat down.

[vxf111]

I am sure it’s top of their agenda

[Bobby7]

Sadly, I don’t think he’s the only one in that group that does quieting techniques.

[2bayboys]

@Bobby7

Sadly, I don’t think he’s the only one in that group that does quieting techniques.

Well, there’s quieting techniques, and then there’s “let’s see how much pentobarbital we can give this horse before stopping its heart” quieting techniques.

[BumbleBee1]

Is it just me or was he too skinny? Maybe I’m too used to seeing obese hunters

[kenyarider]

The jumps look minute. I expect the Europeans are laughing their a**** off at this “spectacle”. The rerun left out Lillie’s round in classic round. The only reason I watched. I wish someone could explain why Liza Boyd, Tori Colvin, Nick Haness didn’t come. I just don’t see Hardin Towell as a hunter pro.

[ww3467]

Lillie’s round wasn’t shown in the live broadcast either due to their technical difficulties. Disappointing.

[Amberley]

I was expecting the full 4’ working hunter height but those looked quite a bit smaller?

[kenyarider]

Chris Sorenson’s history of hunting is incorrect. Hunting was always a sport for toffs. That’s why fox hunting has been so divisive, notwithstanding the fox dying part. Somehow I don’t think this event will result in us seeing hunter classes at Aachen anytime soon. I do have to applaud the effort made however.

[EvenExchange]

I would think a lot of pros don’t have owners who were interested in bankrolling this adventure. I am dying to know why Liza and her daughter backed out after publicly showing so much enthusiasm about the whole thing.

[Hunterammy2020]

Liza was just interviewed by a podcast a week ago in Tryon about how excited they were. It’s obviously been a blow up!

[IPEsq]

Hardin was initially going to be the jumper rider for that team, but then Liza and Elle wound up not going.

I kind of like that it wasn’t just an exhibition of seasoned hunter horses and turned out to be a tough event even though the jumps weren’t that big. And the handy course was not all that technical.

But the commentary continued to be bad. So how will the judges score that rail? Oh, I dunno it depends on how they saw it. What?

It’s too bad for French’s cross canter today. Other than the hand gallop, I didn’t like Hesslink’s ride.

[Midge]

I heard there was some problem with the plane rides.

[capalypinto]

I am confused about the scoring. Crystal Blue has a much better jumping form than that last horse, who seemed to jump inverted and defensive.

[IPEsq]

He did jump better but he had a major lead change error today.

[kaya842]

The prize list had the classes running at 3’6 which I thought was interesting since they have pony jumpers at 1.20+ there being ridden by children (don’t think watching hunters over a smaller course will have the attention grabbing effect they were going for but ).