Twin Rivers Tidbits

•    Tamra Smith, Temecula, Calif., won the advanced division on Bubbles At Bricky, while her daughter Kaylawna Smith won the junior training rider class with Happy Go Lucky III.

•    Mark Watring, who walked all of the upper level courses at Twin Rivers, noted some definite changes in the sport in the two decades since he’d last competed.
        “On cross-country, there are so many narrow jumps,” he said. “There’s hardly room for a horse to drift even a little and make it between the flags. It used to be wide, open galloping tracks, and it seems a lot more technical. You have to check your horse back in a lot of places. Even in the water there were some quite narrow jumps.”

•    Elizabeth Temkin, Portola Valley, Calif., won the CIC** from start to finish on her gray Irish Sport Horse gelding, Jude’s Law.

•    The weekend after Twin Rivers, Watring rode Brilliant to fourth place in the Foxfield Jumper Derby in Lake Sherwood, Calif.

•    U.S. Eventing Association President Kevin Baumgardner won the open intermediate dressage with Jefferson D’Aurois and never looked back to take the division.

•    Organizers rescheduled cross-country times so that the FEI divisions could run first thing in the morning, to avoid the worst of the excessive heat.