So yes, it’s very cool being at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials and interviewing Michael Jung. But another of my favorite things about covering a competition away from home is talking to other people who usually aren’t on our radar in the United States.
Like, say, Denmark’s Hanne Wind Ramsgaard.
Badminton, England—May 5
He might be called The Terminator, and he clearly is a serious competitor with ice in his veins, nerves of steel and all the other top sports metaphors, but Michael Jung’s no humorless robot.
He’s also not visibly worrying himself too badly over the prospect of winning a Rolex Grand Slam this weekend, as he cracked a mischievous grin when asked about his preparation with La Biosthetique Sam FBW.
“Top secret,” he said.
Buck Davidson is one of three U.S. riders here in Great Britain riding at this week’s Mitsubishi Motors Badminton CCI****, and he’s riding The Apprentice. This is only Davidson’s second time riding at Badminton; his first was with Ballynoe Castle RM in 2011, when he placed 11th.
On May, 3 the day before the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton CCI**** is due to get underway in England, Andrew Nicholson has announced he's withdrawing.
The New Zealand rider was entered with Libby Sellar’s Nereo, the individual bronze and team medalist at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (Ky.) and third at Badminton in 2013.
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William Fox-Pitt and Chilli Morning finished on |
Badminton, England—May 10
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