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It’s Townend on top again at his old Kentucky 5-star home: Updated
Oliver Townend had to come from behind to win the Defender Kentucky 5-star three-day event, but the world’s number one eventer simply did all he could do by riding a perfect show jumping round Sunday on Cooley Rosalent, then waited for the leaders to make mistakes....
A special eventing horse honored at the Kentucky Horse Park
Custom Made, ridden by David O’Connor to a history-making eventing individual Olympic gold medal in 2000, wasburied in the Kentucky Horse Park’s Memorial Walk of Champions. The 17.1-hand Irish sport horse also is being honored with induction posthumously into the...
The Kentucky 4-star will go down to the wire
Elisabeth Halliday, who had shared top billing after dressage in the Cosequin Lexington 4-star at the Kentucky Horse Park, found herself alone at the top of the chart with Miks Master C after a trip over the testing cross-country course on Saturday. Mickey, third in...
British 1-2-3 in Kentucky 5-star
The odds might seem to be against the U.S. repeating its 2023 victory in the 5-star Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event. Last year, Tamie Smith on Mai Baum became the first American to win the competition since 2008. This year, the top U.S. rider after cross-country is...
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...
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...
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...
Mai Baum out of Kentucky event
Tamie Smith never planned to try for back-to-back 5-star wins with 18-year-old Mai Baum at the Defender Kentucky 5-star event this week, but she was going to put the 2023 winner in the 4-star Short event in Lexington as a prep for the Paris Olympics. Now, however,...
American horse dies after fabulous performance at show jumping World Cup Finals
Tragedy followed triumph tonight as Chromatic BF—who earlier had jumped to third place in the Longines FEI Show Jumping World Cup Finals—collapsed in his stall and died in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Click here to read the competition story or go to the second story on...
It’s Sweden/Sweden at the Show Jumping World Cup
It was a Swedish showdown for the top placings on the second day of the Longines FEI Show Jumping World Cup Finals, but an American who hadn’t ridden in the event for 17 years impressed by moving up the ranks to take third in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As expected, world...
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