11:30 then 14:30 according to the results page…
That would be 5:30 eastern time and then 8:30 eastern
I was wondering how you knew so much about this! That’s very cool and I think fills a great need. I was thinking today that being a commentator is a lot of pressure and I would lose ideas of what to talk about after 3 days, having more information about breeding would be fascinating to hear and learn from! Too bad more commentators aren’t into it.
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I went to look this up earlier because Lucinda had said in her commentary that he was 15 some hands. I’ve seen in my search that he is 15.3, 16.0, and 16.1 lol.
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Right?
Not coincidentally, most of the commentators are or were riders. Can’t help but wonder if they were the types to leave their horses’ FEI registrations partially incomplete or incorrect because they just don’t care about breeding themselves. 
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Love this quote from Ariel:
“My dressage wasn’t the strongest, but I’m gonna finish on it,”
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Initial report from Eventing Nation is that the horses look great at the final trot-up. Just one withdrawal overnight - Jan Kaminski of Poland.
ETA: Horse and Hound is reporting an additional 3 withdrawals: Ryuzo Kitajima’s Cekatinka JRA (34th overnight), Jordy Wiken’s Burry Spirit (69th), and Hanne Wind Ramsgaard’s Amequ Torino (50th).
3 horses were held, but passed on re-inspection: Antonio Cejudo Caro’s Duque HSM (52nd), Kormtawat Samran’s Uster de Chanay (38th), and Harald Ambros’ Mountbatton 2 (57th).
Also, EN posted some sweet videos on Instagram of Boyd playing with his sons after XC wrapped up yesterday. What a cool opportunity it must be to be there as a family.
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Beautiful ride by Michael Jung. The slide was certainly a slide as the ground had really broken up.
I’m not a fan of the run hard, slow way down, jump a few jumps and the speed off style of course. Was watching the speedometer and before one jump complex MJ’s speed went from around 25 MPH down to 15MPH and then back up to 23MPH.
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Poor Dana… so many down
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this looks like it may be a real challenge for horses that are not 5* horses
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Agreed. They mentioned earlier on in the commentary that these fences could be set between 1.20m and 1.30m. All are maxed out at 1.30, as are the spreads at 1.45m.
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How many?
I think the rails are gunna fall because the terrain was so tough yesterday.
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Kevin McNab is the first one to look really good, despite having one rail.
Just saw the scores. 36 jump faults for Dana. Ouch
Rails are flying!
she had a refusal as well.
Oh really ok I saw 40 faults overall… that’s rough. Poor Dana.
Holly has 8 down… jolly looked pretty flat
Jollybo really struggled as well with 8 rails down.
On the positive, at least we have a team finish.
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Ugh tough day. No clears yet. Looks like the XC took its toll. Teams gunna be sweating!
Canada finished a team… and actually managed to have a lot of support … if USA can qualify here… Canada will have a chance to get qualified at the pan ams
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I’m hoping that as more people hear it at the events we cover, more people will ask for it/expect it at other events too. Right now many organizers/commentators just think that the people watching really don’t care that much about breeding related stuff, which I’ve found to be the complete opposite of the truth. I’ve even had riders message me after events and tell me that they didn’t know xyz thing about their horse until they heard it on the commentary.
We do sell in-depth, mega detailed breeding spreadsheets for the big events too, so at least if the commentators aren’t getting it right or giving much detail, we have something that people can follow along with at home. We don’t sell many of them (yet?) especially considering it takes me literally days of research to put it together, but I’m hoping that if we just hang in there and keep putting it out, the culture will start to shift a bit. The feedback we’ve gotten from those has been incredible, so… we’re gonna just keep trying!
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