Record-breaking news from the Maryland 5 Star over the past weekend! For the first time in history, a Swiss rider has won a CCI5* on American soil! Felix Vogg will fly home with quite the big check for his efforts aboard Cartania. The pair finished the event with a score of 28.7 after adding just a *touch* of time faults to their dressage score. Team EN was on-site in Elkton, Maryland, bringing you all of the coverage right from the grounds. You can catch up on the excitement of a 5* weekend by reading our coverage here.
Major International Events
Mondial du Lion: [Website] [Scores] [Live Stream Replays]
Tom McEwen and Brookfield Danny de Muze, owned by Chloé Perry, John Perry and Alison Swinburn, have won the 7-year-old FEI World Breeding Eventing Championships at Mondial du Lion in Le Lion d’Angers over the weekend. He quite nearly finished on his dressage score, but did add a cross country time penalty to his dressage score. The cross country phase proved to be extremely influential, as well as a bit terrifying. The course was designed by Pierre Michelet and, according to British Eventing, was described by Tom as having “caused a few problems.” Read more coverage from British Eventing here.
U.S. Weekend Results
Maryland Five Star (MD): [Website] [Scores] [EN’s Coverage] [Support EN’s Coverage Sponsor: Deirdre Stoker Vaillancourt]
Hagyard Midsouth Three-Day Event (KY): [Website] [Scores]
Willow Draw Charity Show (TX): [Website] [Scores]
Ram Tap National H.T. (CA): [Website] [Scores]
News & Reading
Heads up to our Go Eventing Podcast listeners! Our next episode with Portugal’s Kiko Stilwell WILL be out this week, but we won’t quite make our usual Tuesday deadline as we wanted to ensure we had the time to record following the Maryland 5 Star. Keep an eye out for the episode coming later this week!
The In Stride podcast highlights lessons from top eventer Stephen Bradley. Stephen Bradley sat down with Sinead Maynard on the In Stride podcast to let us in on the lessons he’s learned over the last several decades of his eventing career. From how the sport has changed over the years to how he keeps his cool while competing at the top of the sport, you can hear the full conversation on In Stride here.
Meet the dressage halflinger who spends his winters skijoring, and dodging snowmobiles in the woods of Idaho. Anika Sadler and Roush traveled to Oregon to compete in the GAIG/USDF Region 6 Championships, where they won the adult amateur first level freestyle championship with a score of 66.87 percent. Maybe we should add skijoring to our event horses fitness programs. Read more about Anika and Roush here.
The road to disbanding the historic mounted police unit in Baltimore has been anything but smooth. The city has now paid $2 million to terminate a lease with the stables where the mounted unit was housed, $1.1 million more than the city would have paid toward the remaining lease payments for the facility. Read more about the controversial decision to disband the unit here.
Sponsor Corner: The Event at TerraNova
The Event at TerraNova is coming soon and one of the stellar course designers, Mogie Bearden-Muller, has a special message for you Prelim and 2* competitors! If you’re on the fence about entering – listen up! 📣 Entries close October 28 🐴
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That 5* winning feeling:
