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3 things the horse world is talking about right now: Wednesday 13 October 2021
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Great Britainâs 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. “He’s just shown again what a tough, exceptionally top-class horse he is because with the shoe on, he could have been 10 seconds inside [the time].”
While the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian will look very different this year with spectators not allowed under the USEF COVID-19 Action Plan, fans will still be able to tune into every minute of action via the live stream and wall-to-wall coverage on the USEA’s website and social media. The 2021 LRK3DE gets underway this afternoon at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky.
Here’s what you need to know:
The CCI5 -L Field:
65 horses are set to present at the first horse inspection this afternoon – 23 more than came forward in 2019.
Eight countries are represented this year with pairs from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, and the U.S.
Michael Jung has retired his triple Kentucky and multiple medal-winning mare FischerRocana FST after a stellar career.
The 16-year-old mare (Itunago XX x Carismo) is one of the world’s best event horses and will enjoy her retirement with her celebrity field companion, La Biosthetique-Sam FBW.
Michael has also indicated that motherhood is in the pipeline for his world team gold medal-winning ride.
He announced her retirement on Monday (12 April), adding she only went to a few small events in 2020 owing to the coronavirus pandemic, with the hope things would be back to normal this year.
“She enjoyed a great winter break with Sam in the paddock and when we realised it wouldn’t be much different this year with the big classics [being impacted], I decided to take her out of the sport,” he said.
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