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It’s not just the 5-star that’s featured at Kentucky
Eventing World Champion Yasmin Ingham is leading the 5-star at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event with Banzai du Loir after the first day of dressage, seeking to improve on her 2022 second-place finish. But despite a professional performance that merited a 26-penalty score, Yasmin didn’t have center stage to herself at the Kentucky Horse Park on Thursday. It’s a very unusual edition of the event, with the Cosequin® Lexington 4-star Short getting nearly equal billing with the 5-star, the...
It’s 5-star eventing time at the Kentucky Horse Park
It’s not everyone’s idea of a spectator event, but if you’re an eventing fan, the initial horse inspection at the Defender Kentucky competition is a “must” part of the entire experience. Spectators line up along the rail at the Kentucky Horse Park to watch their favorites jog, and the bonus is seeing what the riders are wearing. This time, Boyd Martin—who once flaunted an outrageous red, white and blue Uncle Sam suit for the trot-up—was uncharacteristically boring in a gray sweater. There were...
It’s not just the 5-star that’s featured at Kentucky
Eventing World Champion Yasmin Ingham is leading the 5-star at the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event with Banzai du Loir after the first day of dressage, seeking to improve on her 2022 second-place finish. But despite a professional performance that merited a 26-penalty score, Yasmin didn’t have center stage to herself at the Kentucky Horse Park on Thursday. It’s a very unusual edition of the event, with the Cosequin® Lexington 4-star Short getting nearly equal billing with the 5-star, the traditional feature that is one of only seven competitions in the world with that top rating. Normally, you’d expect Will Coleman to be competing in the 5-star with Off the Record, his Aachen winner from 2021. But that horse is in the 4-star with Will’s newer mount, Diabolo. Halfway through the competition, which resumes on Friday, Off the Record is third with 30.1 penalties and Diabolo is second on 29.9, 0.1 behind the leader, Boyd Martin on Commando 3. The reason for extra attention on the 4-star? The Paris Olympics are on the horizon. “I think everybody has a little bit of a different approach,” Will mused, “both in terms of how they want to put themselves forward for selection, whether they feel like they’re going to make a stronger case for themselves doing the 5-star versus the 4-star. “In my situation, Off the Record is an older horse. If he was going to be asked to go to Paris, I think doing the 5-star here and doing a championship in July would be a lot for him.” While Diabolo is...
It’s 5-star eventing time at the Kentucky Horse Park
It’s not everyone’s idea of a spectator event, but if you’re an eventing fan, the initial horse inspection at the Defender Kentucky competition is a “must” part of the entire experience. Spectators line up along the rail at the Kentucky Horse Park to watch their favorites jog, and the bonus is seeing what the riders are wearing. This time, Boyd Martin—who once flaunted an outrageous red, white and blue Uncle Sam suit for the trot-up—was uncharacteristically boring in a gray sweater. There were the usual choices of blah sportcoats among some of the other men, but no one could even dream of coming close to Will Faudree. He jogged Mama’s Magic Way while wearing a cowboy hat and pink suit worthy of Barbie's Ken. That woke everybody up. My favorite, however, was Germany’s Calvin Bockmann, who looked very sharp in his army uniform while presenting The Phantom of the Opera (who was a chestnut, rather than black, as I expected with that name.) The women generally try to make a statement with...
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