Equestrian 2018 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,179]

Well, as I expected.

 

I'm happy for Australia and New Zealand. They should be interested to host eventing now, which would be awesome. After all, Australia hosted it in 1986, final edition before first WEG.

 

It's incredible, they have generations of incredible riders, but some of them haven't competed at home in decades!

[dcro 10,179]

If you enjoy watching old men trying to be hip, then today's FEI General Assembly might be your thing.

 

 

[dcro 10,179]

Apparently it's very exciting.

 

 

 

[dcro 10,179]

And of course, the General Assembly ended with a whole bunch of new rules being adopted. It's getting to the point of being beyond ridiculous, with rules getting tweaked EVERY YEAR in recent times.

 

For example, missing a flag on cross-country jump will no longer give you 50 penalties, but only 15. So, for the first time in forever, missing a flag is less of a fault then good old-fashioned refusal. Missing a flag used to be penalized with elimination, but then in 2016 they introduced 50-penalty ruling, which turned out to be a joke anyway, with penalties often getting dubiously removed on appeals. Especially if you are an "important rider". But then during this summer Piggy French didn't have her 50 pens removed (there must have been some very strong evidence), and immediately everyone started complaining about 50 penalties being too big, because such things can NOT be happening to British team riders.

 

Among other new rulings, FEI suddenly felt like introducing a new rule for eventing show jumping too. One time penalty will be now given for every two seconds over the time allowed, instead of every second like it was basically since forever.

[dcro 10,179]

De Niro is the top dressage stallion for the 4th year in a row.

 

http://www.eurodressage.com/2018/12/10/de-niro-tops-2018-wbfsh-dressage-sire-ranking

[dcro 10,179]

First ever Global Champions Tour Playoffs are about to start in Prague...

 

Live stream

[dcro 10,179]

One commentator is super chill, the other is hyperventilating at every fence...

[thepharoah 2,288]

Finally we have a clear ride here 

[dcro 10,179]

Clears for Smolders and ETA in the first round.

 

Breen is 3rd with a time fault.

[thepharoah 2,288]

only 2 clear rounds after 1st Rd , Sameh is 6th and still holds a chance for a podium finish only if he make a clear round ofc next stage