- Lauren Lambert and Baba Creek moved up four places to take the lead in the young rider individual eventing championship after the cross-country phase at the 2010 North American Junior and Young Rider Championships. The duo added only 0.8 time faults to give them a two-day total of 53.6.
- Julia Norman, 19, Colona B.C., had a clean cross-country round aboard Sauvignon to move up from seventh place to second.
- “She is only 0.1 behind me,” Lambert, 21, Goshen, Ky., said.” The pressure is on.”
- Kelly Pugh and Copycat Chloe added only 4 time penalties to their score to stay in the top three. “I was worried about the course in the sense that I’m from California and not used to running on grass,”
Pugh said. “But when I finished, I thought, ‘I have one cool horse.’ ”
- The grass proved to be slippery for many riders due to the overcast and rainy skies, so several chose the longer options at the more difficult combinations. “It was a little more slippery than anticipated,” Norman said. “At the last minute I decided to do [the option at 5AB] because of how my team went, and I think it went well.”
- Dressage leader Anisa Tracy and Tigger VIII fell to seventh after a clean jumping effort. They added 14.4 penalties to their score.
- Three riders, Joelle Baskerville on Malibu, Lexi Scovil on Sky Show and Devon Brown on Dynamic Image, had stops at the Turtle Pond water complex (21ABC). Last year’s CH-J* gold-medalists Laura Roberts and Galway Blazer had a stop at fence 8 and one of the corners at 11AB.
- Emily Daigneault and Misty Vale Bacardi parted ways at fence 12, but both were reported OK.
- The combined team from Area V and IX had zero course penalties and a smattering of time penalties to hold onto their lead with a total of 181.9 faults. The team—Jacob Fletcher riding Falcon Splash, Brittany Lunney on Cool Dancer, Anisa Tracy riding Tigger VIII, and Karen Shull riding Fernhill Figaro—have a 12.1-point lead over the second-placed combined team VI and VII (194.0). Area III moved into third with a total of 201.8 faults.
- Kelly Loria continued to lead the junior eventing competition at the North American Junior and Young Rider Championships, going clean over the CH-J* cross country course, Saturday, July 31. “It was really fun and really forward,” Loria, 16, from Lafayette, Calif., said. “We aren’t used to the grass terrain, but I do like riding on grass a lot!”
- Claire Kelly and Clifton Peekachu also jumped clean to hold onto their second-placed spot. Peekachu, a 13-year-old New Zealand Thoroughbred “felt amazing coming out of the startbox,” Kelly said.
- Kendyl Tracy, riding Ever So Lucky, was concerned about the 9ABC (Walnut Way Corners, table-corner-table) combination like most of the riders, but jumped clean to hold onto third place going into show jumping. “I was nervous about the corner question,” Tracy, said. “Usually she has a bit of a right drift on her, so I made sure I got her back.”
- Sophie Kalpin was pulled up by the stewards after fence 9 when Blue Executive apparently suffered a nosebleed. Both horse and rider walked off the course unassisted.
- Super Nova and J. Taylor Humphrey and Dauntless Heart and Erika Johnson were both eliminated at fence 20, the Turtle Drop at the water complex.
- Madison Reeb and Raquel suffered a fall at 13AB, the Sunken Road, when Raquel lost his footing upon landing from the log drop. Horse and rider walked off the course.
- Olivia Kamensky and Stellor King parted ways at the Turtle Drop but apparently only suffered a thorough dunking.
- In the team competition, the team representing Area IV moved up from second place to first, carrying 150.4 into the show jumping competition. In second, the team from Area VI, VII, and VIII had 1.2 time penalties, knocking them from first with a combined total fault of 158.9. Area IX had three clean rounds to move from fifth to third going into the final phase.
