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World-class competition at the Maryland’s 5 Star Eventing competition debuts this month after one-year delay due to COVID-19.

Nine pairs have been named as the British Olympic eventing entries – the team will be chosen from these horses and riders

By Oliver Townend - As Told to Catherine Austen Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class at the 2021 LRK3DE. USEA/Erin Gilmore Photo My first visit to Kentucky was in 2009 when I finished eighth on Carousel Quest - with whom I won Burghley a few months later. My initial impression was, ‘Wow!’ Disbelief that the sport of eventing had such an incredible venue. That disbelief has never weakened. If I could event full-time at the Kentucky Horse Park, I would. Townend and Carousel Quest at Kentucky in 2009. USEA Archive Photo Driving in,...

Horsetalk.co.nz Share Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class won the CCI5*-L at Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event in Lexington at the weekend. © LRK3DE British rider Oliver Townend has scored his third consecutive win in the 5* Kentucky Three-Day-Event, jumping a clear round on Ballaghmor Class on Sunday to take the title. It is Townend’s sixth career five-star win, and the second at that level for Ballaghmor Class (Courage II x Kilderry Place), a 14-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding. New Zealand power couple Tim and Jonelle Price placed second and third, respectively. They were also the...

© Amy K. Dragoo Great Britain’s Townend holds a slim lead after cross-country. Tamie Smith and EnVogue maintain their lead in the CCI4*-S. Despite Ballaghmor Class losing a front shoe at the seventh fence of the Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI5*-L cross-country course, as well as riding in a downpour, Great Britain’s Oliver Townend took over the event’s top spot. “It’s a tough course already, and it’s very twisty and turny, especially with no front shoe, so I had to mind him a lot, and then go like a bat out of hell coming home,” Townend said about the 14-year-old gelding. ...