About halfway through first round.
Also on Wellington International YouTube.
Ava Stearns, Kelli Cruciotti Vanderveen and Rachel Kennedy commentating.
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On Thursday?!?
They are really messing with my head!
Thanks for posting about it.
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This class is going to run past my bedtime.
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I wonder if the three Florida circuits coordinated this weekend with each other. WEF eq class tonight, HITS Eq class tomorrow, WEC nations cup Saturday night. Lots to watch this weekend
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I feel like the WEF equitation class has usually been on Friday night in past years. But maybe they changed it and I was not paying attention.
I agree with you, I was surprised to see it scheduled for tonight.
The only big conflict is the GP at WEC happening right now. I didn’t plan ahead to bring a computer home from work for a second screen
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Ava’s commentary is so good. It’s a privilege to listen to her.
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I guess they’re opting not to test
They’re only pinning 5th-12th right now. Probably so the judges can decide the test and ponies who aren’t testing can go to bed.
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ah ok thank you!
JJ’s actual test was very smooth, but I thought his eq was a little loose hand gallop/over fences.
I also appreciate these commentators saying what’s a real hand gallop. Half the time the riders just canter and the commentators say it’s brilliant.
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He’s so soft. His riding is precise but he does lose position a bit. I’d much rather see that than precise position and lackadaisical communication with the horse.
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YES! If we are all back here clucking at our laptops, somebody better be clucking at the ring. 
I appreciated that they said it out loud.
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That’s fair!
I don’t think Olivia lost it even if she wasn’t as brilliant as JJ or Baylee. She landed the counter leads very well. I think it will be Olivia, JJ, Baylee, Adriana.
I missed half of Baylee’s test and the trot fence from Olivia owing to a difference of opinion my cat and I were having over whether it is permitted to make biscuits on the keyboard and pull the keys off, so I can’t judge it fairly. I think Adriana rides so beautifully and sympathetically but for me she lost it in the hand gallop. She rides with a lovely consistent soft hunter style and never quite seems to go for it and throw down a gauntlet.
ETA clearly I missed something from JJ too. What happened in his workoff?
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It may have been the weakness/off distance to the hand gallop fence. He was only a point or so above Baylee, and 9 behind Olivia.
Yay Olivia! Baylee had a really great workoff too.
I’ll take camera angle for $500, Alex. I didn’t think it was bad, but you’re right, that’s probably it and I bet it looked different in real life.
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I’m pretty sure the specs for this class require a test of the top four.
I’m a little torn between the lack of tradition involved in doing the separate awards for fifth through 12th first versus the idea of letting those horses and people wrap up a little sooner in the evening. Lol.
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