Equestrian 2017 Discussion Thread

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First dressage competition of the year was held this weekend in Las Vegas (it was World Cup qualifier for the North American League).

 

Steffen Peters & Rosamunde won with 78%. They are very much on the way to WC Final in Omaha with that score. However, probably the most interesting pair that competed in Las Vegas was Dawn White-O'Connor & Legolas. Legolas is the horse that Steffen rode in Rio, and now he offered the ride to his long-time assistant rider. Dawn's scores were obviously lower than Steffen's scores with Legolas, but it will be interesting to see how they improve.

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Several awards have been presented for 2016 recently...

 

FEI AWARDS

 

Best Athlete - Nick Skelton

Rising Star - Sönke Rothenberger

Best Groom - Mark Beever

Against All Odds - Rodolpho Riskalla

 

Eventing Nation Award

 

Best Eventing Athlete and Horse - Phillip Dutton - Mighty Nice

 

A well deserved award following their incredible adventure towards the Olympic bronze medal.

 

 

 

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Speaking of new year, the traditional Global Dressage Festival in Florida has started this week. This effectively means for me watching late evening/night live streams every second Friday (until the end of the March). Bring it on.

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Lisa Wilcox and Galant delivered the goods and won the first freestyle with 77.2%.

 

http://gdf.coth.com/article/watch-lisa-wilcox-and-galant-earn-victory-in-fei-grand-prix-freestyle

 

 

In other news, Kentucky withdrew their bid for 2022 WEG, leaving Samorin as the only official candidate. @hckosice

Edited January 14, 2017 by dcro

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1 hour ago, dcro said:

Lisa Wilcox and Galant delivered the goods and won the first freestyle with 77.2%.

 

http://gdf.coth.com/article/watch-lisa-wilcox-and-galant-earn-victory-in-fei-grand-prix-freestyle

 

 

In other news, Kentucky withdrew their bid for 2022 WEG, leaving Samorin as the only official candidate. @hckosice

 

Cool It would be nice if we will organize such huge event.

 

Thanks for the info

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5 hours ago, hckosice said:

 

Cool It would be nice if we will organize such huge event.

 

Thanks for the info

 

Who knows, maybe I'll go and watch if Samorin gets it Although, so far I have never witnessed an equestrian event live.

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4 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Who knows, maybe I'll go and watch if Samorin gets it Although, so far I have never witnessed an equestrian event live.

 

Šamorín is close to Bratislava in the south west part of the country few km of the Hungarian boarders, exactly 375km from Rijeka. some 4 and half hours by car. even much more closer than Šamorín --- Košice, so I assume it will be a sin for such equestrian super fan to not use such opportunity to attend the world equestrian games

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Looks like the terrible season of jumping WC is continuing. Out of the first 10 riders in Leipzig, 5 of them went clear. So this means we'll have another huge and useless jump-off that nobody wants to see...

 

Only like 2 courses this season were appropriately demanding.

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Thankfully the course setter made things interesting later on by setting a non-straightforward jump-off. Tactics played a big part.

 

Gregory Wathelet was the winner and, interestingly, it looks like he will qualify for his first WC final. He has been at the top level for a while.

Edited January 22, 2017 by dcro