Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

2006 Galway CCI Cross-Country Course Highlights

This year's CCI** and CCI* courses at Galway promise to be exciting and challenging. With lots of galloping, some tricky technical questions and the infamous Lake Galway, riders will have to be bold but make sure to save enough horse to finish the long course. Here are some of the highlight questions on course:


Both the CCI* and CCI** start over the "Good Luck" table followed by long forward gallops to fences 2, 3 and 4.

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This year’s CCI** and CCI* courses at Galway promise to be exciting and challenging. With lots of galloping, some tricky technical questions and the infamous Lake Galway, riders will have to be bold but make sure to save enough horse to finish the long course. Here are some of the highlight questions on course:


Both the CCI* and CCI** start over the “Good Luck” table followed by long forward gallops to fences 2, 3 and 4.


The first technical question on the CCI* course is the coffin at 5 and 6ab.


After a bit of galloping and some forward fences and oxers, CCI** riders face two ditch-and-rail obstacles a few strides apart at fences 4 and 5.


Two-star riders will negotiate a tricky set of diagonal cabins called The Converging Homes at 6ab and 7.


The first water complex on the one-star course is fence 8abc. Riders will need to make a water landing, jump a log in the lake, then exit and clear the last log.


The two-star water complex includes a bounce between logs 9 and 10a followed by a bend through the water to 10b, the Mine Shaft cabin.

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A long gallop follows the CCI* water complex and leads to the Levy drop at 10ab.


A wide ditch and palisade awaits riders after the two-star water complex followed by a gallop…


…until reaching the Galway Leap at 12ab—A big drop followed by a chevron fence.


The second water complex on the CCI* course requires riders to clear a log and land with a stride before entering the water. They’ll proceed through Lake Galway and jump up the bank at 12a and over an oxer at 12b. A 180-degree turn to the Aqueduct fence immediately follows.


After the Galway Leap, the mid-CCI** course winds through the show jumping stadiums. Fence 14 is a wagon and leads up a hill to 15ab, a bounce called Visit To The Trade Fair.


Down the hill and through the stadium brings two-star riders to the Cabana.


After the Cabana and a gallop around the stadium and warm-up rings awaits Lake Galway and a tricky grouping of two combinations (17ab and 18ab) into and out of the lake.

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Then it’s back into the water once more over the skinny water ditch and fence 19.


After Lake Galway, the CCI* course asks for a long gallop back up the hill and to the Track Side Corner (14abc) which consists of a log, then a 90-degree turn to a drop (pictured), to a corner.


While one-star horses get to gallop straight over the hill after Lake Galway, the CCI** course asks horses to jump a log at the top of the hill…


…And gallop on to another drop at 21.


After another forward jump and the 22ab to 23 corner combo, tired two-star horses and riders face one more technical corner combo at 25ab before heading into the home stretch.


After a greulling course, a short gallop over and oxer and through the Equinox brings CCI** competitors home.

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