Whoa. One horse had blood on a leg, and the whole team is out?
The rankings based total of 3 scores. The US can’t now get three scores. They can still compete for individual medals.
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I’m not too familiar with the blood rule, previously assuming it is was aimed at mouths and spur marks, but legs? A scrape can cause elimination?
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Marcus Orlob on Jane. Mare got a cut on her hind leg.
Can someone clarify, does this mean the alternate pair is in or do we just have 2 riders and team comp. over?
Yes, any blood anywhere, you’re out.
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Ok thx for clarifying
Wow!! The no drop score rule strikes again.
What a huge disappointment for everyone involved. Just terrible.
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I assume the blood was found directly before or after competition?
She cut herself going around the ring, I guess she was upset at the horse leaving the ring. I saw comments online that the entrance is harder than they had for eventing? Anyone have any pics of where they enter into the ring?
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Wow that’s awful. I’m not there today but I can’t imagine it’s different than eventing - everything is pretty permanent. We did see a French rider almost canter directly into someone leaving the ring in eventing SJ yesterday. The entrance/exit is the width of a regular gate (14’ ish). Maybe it happened there?
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Blood found during competition.
ETA: eventing dressage had entrance and exits at two different areas so horses weren’t passing each other. That is not the case for dressage, where entrance and exit is the same gate.
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No they entered and exited at the same place. There’s only one ramp, you can walk around the rest of the stadium.
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thanks for explaining!
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They were rung out mid test when the judge at C noticed the scrape. Super unfortunate.
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The commentators said the eventing dressage riders entered and exited different ways.
I don’t have access to go back and look right this second but I seem to recall that being accurate…
Happy to be proven wrong though, either way it’s unfortunate!
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I’m there for show jumping in two days so I’ll take photos but there’s just no way. The warm ups, inspection tent, gate, and ramp are very permanent and go directly back to the barns. You can walk all the way up to the fence on both sides. There’s no way they moved it (especially since I was there yesterday for eventing).
Not perfect photos but you get the idea
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I think they meant from near the ring?
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I’m all for the blood rule but can’t we decide that once a horse enters the ring (where we can tell that no one beat it) can’t we have an exception or just a penalty like in eventing for blood below the knee/hock if it’s minor?
What a bummer.
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That’s what I thought too.
