Barbury CIC*** results in

[nature]

Gina Miles-Highest placed US rider at 22
60 some riders clear X-C but all with time faults
Dressage
1 retired
1 eliminated
8 withdrawn
SJ
1 retired
1 eliminated
9 withdrawn
X-c
6 retired
6 eliminated
16 withdrawn

AT placed 30th and 50th
KOC placed 32
C Montgomery 59
E Haliday 61

http://www.bdwp.co.uk/bar/

[Shrapnel]

There is already a thread on this:

http://www.chronicleforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=155308

[nature]

There is already a thread on this:

http://www.chronicleforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=155308

Much easier to just read the first post for results with the link readily available than to read through all the posts looking for results. That is why my post is titled results of the CIC ***. Quick and easy access. If the mods want to delete the post, they will, as that is their job.

And some of the stats of the results right there. With all the accidents and riders and horses either being critically injured or dying at these events, I just held my breath that all survived.

[TBCollector]

This made it very easy, rather than scrolling through the other posts.

[nature]

This made it very easy, rather than scrolling through the other posts.

Your are very welcome.

[Carol Ames]

How did Toddy do?:yes:

[Carol Ames]

so many time penalties; was the course measured "long?"":confused:

[nature]

so many time penalties; was the course measured "long?"":confused:

Maybe everyone, all 105 of them, took CMP's advice to ride the horse and not the watch?

(can you sense the sarcasm? lol)

[Carol Ames]

Unfortunately what was predicted for Athens, with the short format, seems to be true:no: "It's a racetrack out there" Were any warning cards given?

[Carol Ames]

Does anyone have the link to Max corcorans' blog?

[nature]

"I'm sorry I cannot agree with those that complain about the time being difficult at Red Hills. The time is almost impossible to make there because of the terrain and arboretum of trees and shrubs. If you make the time or nearly make the time you have arguably gone too fast unless you are on a very experienced horse. It is not a competitors 'divine right' to be able to 'make the time.' Far more it is the riders' responsibility to ride their horse at a speed appropriate to its ability and experience and the prevailing conditions on any one day. 'Making the time' is a way of life growing out of courses where heights are a meter or less and where the speeds are considerably slower. At all levels, and especially Preliminary and above, riding your horse and jumping the fences must be the overriding priority. This fact has not changed since Eventing began. The sooner riders at all levels come to terms with this the safer the sport will be."

The riders must have read this

[nature]

http://special.equisearch.com/blog/maxcorcoran/

Wet and windy Barbury...

YUCK - what terrible weather today! It rained all night and most of the day. Thank goodness the ground here is so used to the rain that the footing stayed excellent through out the day.
To catch up on yesterday - more dressage - and the novice (our preliminary) cross country was going on right next to the dressage warm-up. That paired with 25 mile an hour winds, flags and a trade fair surrounding the main ring, the bouncy castles for the kids fair and tons of spectators - such atmosphere! Amy's second horse, Leyland, was feeling the vibes a bit and was strong - Amy is such a great competitor and finished on a 55. Mandiba was next to go for the USA and he too was a bit star struck. He tried very hard and finished on a 50.5. Big Mac and Gina rounded out the day for us on a great test and finished with a 46.2.
RAIN, Rain and more rain... Up early this morning - the show jumping started at 8 am and the course wasn't set until 6:30 pm last night. Really big track with square oxers and tough turns. Its by far the biggest course I have seen all year! And again in the main arena with all the distractions - Up Spirit and Poggio both jumped amazing clear rounds, Mandiba had 1 down and Mac and Leyland had 2 down - all very respectable.
Mark Phillips designed such an amazing track. The course is set in a "bowl" type hill so you can see almost the entire course from the hillside. Very foreword galloping track with some technical questions thrown in as well - The time is notoriously impossible to make. Most riders assessed their standings after the first two phases as to decide weather or not to take a cut at the prize money and go fast or to set sites on future plans and have a good steady ride. The US riders went for the latter. All the horses were great. Poggio was his usual tidy and impressive self, and Leyland found a great rhythm early in the course and just kept getting better. Mac rocked around the fastest of us. Clark had a unfortunate glance off at an arrow head, but jump great the rest of the way around. A very safe day today with only a handful of falls and some run outs and stops. It was really fun to get to see Mandiba jump almost all the jumps - I usually only get to see the first and the last as I am always at the start and finish!
We are back at Aston now with tons of dirty laundry and even more wet clothes getting set for a full day of Vet Evaluations from team vets Brendon Furlong, PJ McMachon and Cathrine Kohn. We are all happy to be clean and dry and fed and ready for a good nights sleep!
More soon!!

posted by Max Corcoran @ 4:48 PM 0 Comments
Thursday, July 3, 2008

[Carol Ames]

Unfortunately as CMP must recognize,:winkgrin: this has become a combined test!:sadsmile:

[Eventrgrl]

I would just think that given we are about one month away from the games, no rider who is in contention for the US team or other nation's riders already on the other teams would want to chance injury with trying to make the time.

I got the interpretation this was supposed to be a final, confidence-building outing for many involved.

[retreadeventer]

Actually I think it is more the fact that the Olympics are in what six weeks -- and most of the teams have already been named -- this close to an Olympic endeavor one would surely want to take a few time penalties rather than cook a horse or risk an injury by going too fast. It is almost the point of no return for the horses, what is sound now can't risk any undue stress from this point forward I would think since there are only a few who have enough top level horses to replace the main one, the slot would go to another team member - no Olympics then.... so were I on a team I would surely canter the cross country too.

[nature]

Actually I think it is more the fact that the Olympics are in what six weeks -- and most of the teams have already been named -- this close to an Olympic endeavor one would surely want to take a few time penalties rather than cook a horse or risk an injury by going too fast. It is almost the point of no return for the horses, what is sound now can't risk any undue stress from this point forward I would think since there are only a few who have enough top level horses to replace the main one, the slot would go to another team member - no Olympics then.... so were I on a team I would surely canter the cross country too.

Plus it was rainy, see post #12

[vineyridge]

Complete results are here:
http://www.bdwp.co.uk/cgi-bin/sl2k.pl?fn=bar08.csv&sct=A

Mark Todd had a refusal on XC and some time penalties, but no refusals in SJ. He was either right before Leyland.