Often the cones phase is filled with penalties and leaderboard switches. But at today’s conclusion of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games driving event, the top nine finished the overall competition in the same placing as when they ended the marathon phase. Boyd Exell took individual gold, while U.S. rider Chester Weber was silver and Theo Timmerman bronze.
Endurance rider Claudia Romero Chacon is recovering from a broken femur and internal injuries in the hospital, while show jumper Tomas Couve Correa has already been released.
Even though he’d just taken the lead, Boyd Exell wasn’t happy with the score he earned during his driven dressage test this morning. He knew who was coming.
That “who” is Chester Weber, a notoriously strong dressage driver.