Why have you not been here for the last 3 hours?
That horse is SO CUTE.
ETA tentative 4PM start on the second round.
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Bad priorities, tbh. Was working on thesis revisions. What kind of chump does that instead of watching this???
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Loser 
No priorities.
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Thatâs why Iâm still in school, tbh. Takes forever to get things through my head.
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I feel like the LONG oxer-oxer 1 stride is almost a hallmark of Medal finals, and it still eats people every year.
Looks like a lot of these lines ride long.
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By the way, I want to own up to something. A few minutes ago, Sissy Wickes said âIf I had a dollar for every time I said âclose your fingersââŠâ
I rode with Sissy a few times. Even in those few lessons, she would have been RICH off of me. I just want to acknowledge that.
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Iâd like it if the commentary was more focused on the round in the ring than on whether people dress up at night for classes at the RoyalâŠ
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I started out the day thinking that the course didnât look like so much of a scope test as it has been in previous years, and I have revised my opinion as the morning went on. The oxer-oxer 1-stride shows up every year, as you say, but Iâm glad I donât have to ride that 3-stride. Sheesh.
I could probably fund her entire retirement off of one lesson. 
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Yeah, granted I have yet to see a good round and that might change my opinion, but so far, I donât really like this course much. Iâm not sure how much itâs really testing riding ability vs testing scope & stride length.
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Skylar Gurtis needs more canter pls
I donât think it is as much of a scope test as it has been previously. The 3-stride is the only thing thatâs standing out to me as a horse test. The bending lines ride in options. A lot of the riders who have had trouble have started out under paced or without connection from the hocks to the hand, then goof the turn from 1-2 because they donât have command of the outside shoulder, then they donât go forward after that to 3 and do the same thing, and then it sort of continues in that vein. Riders who have started off on a working pace and managed the track from 1-2-3 have been more successful.
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[quote=âRenn_aissance, post:132, topic:777775, full:trueâ] Riders who have started off on a working pace and managed the track from 1-2-3 have been more successful.
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Okay, thatâs fair, I just havenât seen anyone actually do that yet lolol
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Ack I borked the quote somehow
I think I will be muting the commentary now.
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Jimmyâs kid is done riding, can we put him up in the booth doing commentary instead pls
Grace Debney is joining the broadcast to do Round 2 commentary. Hopefully that will be better!
That was also more or less the first hour, minus Agnes, who went in with an understanding of the mission and an intent to execute. Then a bunch of riders in a row figured it out, and now we have relaxed too much about it.
I recently started taking archery lessons. Every time my archery instructor tells me to close my fingers I think âoh this sounds familiarâ
I feel like the kids always do a better job of (1) focusing on the round in front of them, and (2) being KIND in their commentary about their peers.
The adults are guilty of talking to hear themselves talk, which is what I feel like I was listening to before I muted the stream. If youâre not gonna talk about the round in the ring, you donât need to talk!
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