Big names top the standings in the Kentucky 5-star event
Brits, Brits everywhere at the top of the leaderboard in both the 4-star Short and 5-star three-day events at the Kentucky Horse Park, where the dressage phase wrapped up on Friday. In the Defender 5-star, a lovely, fluid test from Tom McEwen and JL Dublin was marked at 24.6 penalties, overtaking another British rider, World Champion Yasmin Ingham with Banzai du Loir, who led on 26 penalties after the first day of competition. That made the British contingent 1-2 in the featured division....
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...
Big names top the standings in the Kentucky 5-star event
Brits, Brits everywhere at the top of the leaderboard in both the 4-star Short and 5-star three-day events at the Kentucky Horse Park, where the dressage phase wrapped up on Friday. In the Defender 5-star, a lovely, fluid test from Tom McEwen and JL Dublin was marked at 24.6 penalties, overtaking another British rider, World Champion Yasmin Ingham with Banzai du Loir, who led on 26 penalties after the first day of competition. That made the British contingent 1-2 in the featured division. There is a tie at the top of the Cosequin Lexington 4-star between the USA’s Liz Halliday on Miks Master C, who was third in the Kentucky 5-star last year, and U.S.-based British rider Lucienne Bellissimo on DYRI (yes, she’s the wife of Mark Bellissimo, a Wellington, Fla., developer who is used to making headlines of his own). Both women were marked at 26 penalties. But the Brit one might expect to be at the head of the 5-star rankings instead stands equal eighth. That’s three-time Kentucky winner and world number one Oliver Townend with the promising Cooley Rosalent, who started out with a mistake—going from the halt into the canter instead of the trot—which didn’t endear her to the judges, one would guess. Oliver is tied with 22-year-old German soldier Calvin Bockmann on The Phantom of the Opera with 31.4 penalties. Analyzing his test, Oliver said, “I thought the exceptional bits were very good, and the mistakes were the mistakes. “I felt the good bits weren’t rewarded really and the...
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...
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