Insight from eventers and show jumpers about today's weather

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I am betting most (all?) of those eventing horse were wearing boots or wraps while being exercised. Besides, event horses don't do GP movements - or anything...

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Who was riding on Sunday? I thought all events were canceled on Sunday - eventing stadium rounds were pushed to Monday.

By Saturday, predictions...

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I thought I saw somewhere that it was an FEI official that caused the misdirect. Has it been confirmed that it was someone on the organizing staff?...

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No. They just can't "take out dirt". It is a different TYPE of footing. To make it SAFE ENOUGH for the world's top dressage horses, they would...

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I don't think anyone has insinuated anything of the sort. What people have tried to point out MULTIPLE TIMES is that dressage horses and reining horses...

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As others have explained multiple times - reiners need deep, loose, round sand for their slides. They are used to working in that type of footing. Dressage...

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I don't have the link handy, but shipping info was in the Peden Bloodstock Freight Manual for WEG. For Greenville - Leige, I had heard through the grapevine...

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Won't argue that dressage people are divas, but I believe that the flight schedules had the European dressage horses departing on Monday. The event horses...

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I don't know if there is a "rule" that the dressage riders get to test the footing before competing on it, but my understanding is that many...

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And there is the answer to why the dressage freestyle could not be held in the covered arena on reining footing.

The footing is not only...

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Great post, Buschkn! The mentality of the entitled class is beyond me....

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Yeah, I am sure the eventers thought nothing of the rain during the jog, but organizers had no way to predict how much more rain they were going to get...

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Do reining horses wear support boots in competition? I don't know much about the sport, but it seems most of the photos I have seen show the horses in...

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http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/...ring-the-storm...

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Some photos of the jog - http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/...eg#prettyPhoto[212737]/6/...

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There are some photos from today's eventing jog here - http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/...-weg#prettyPho...

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Good point, yaya, about the wind. Even though thankfully no longer a hurricane, Florence is still bringing serious wind. As we all know, riding horses...

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So if you were in charge, you would have run the freestyle anyway. Where? The covered arena? In uncertain footing? With only riders who were willing to...

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I am assuming they did not have enough surplus "dressage footing" available and prepositioned near the indoor arena, and/or they didn't have...

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Two words: Trip Insurance.

"As simple as bad weather". Florence is a HURRICANE. And one that is moving very, very slowly, which...