Recent content by caladria

They've been at the same competitions and been in the same training squads and the same teams (on and off) for the best part of a decade since then, so I imagine it's pretty much ancient history.

Ah, quite pleased to see Ingrid win with Hale Bob, he's a fantastic horse and she clearly thinks the world of him. Still not used to seeing Michi and Chipmunk - he's still Julia Krajewski's horse in my head! Still if they're that good after less than a year together, they're going to be...

Not quite a cheer, because I enjoy watching Thibaut at ERMs, but oh my word Cathal Daniels has a bronze medal at worst and GB has a silver.

According to the commentary, those are not "watches", those are "time pieces" :lol:

Got to feel for Ingrid, heartbreaking with a super, super horse. But Ros!! Just perfect. And team Ireland in second - wouldn't actually have been annoyed if they'd won it, however traitorous that makes me sound. I'd just like to point out Japan in fourth there... I know a lot of the big teams...

Well, you say that... The Germans had to sub in an untested 9 year old once Rocana was out of the question. Not to bring up a sore point for anyone, but if the GB team had had a late injury, then it's fairly well discussed that the team had, what, four horses with 4* podiums and wins ready...

I honestly don't think that WEG has a future, and that the disciplines will split into separate world championships. Unless you do either a permanent or rotating base - Lexington is big enough, I'm guessing Aachen is big enough, but it's anyone's guess whether either would want it permanently...

I'd say they were missing two things - experienced horses and Michi Jung! If he and Fischerrocana were there, they'd almost certainly have another 25ish score to add to Ingrid's and they'd be sitting in 4th place as a team instead of 6th, and right behind Ireland and France. But instead, they...

I bet a lot of the organisational problems are part of the game of stepping up short notice - after all, Bromont pulled out only two years ago, Kentucky was in the picture for a while (but couldn't get over the Lexington Rolex / FEI Longines sponsorship issue at the time) and Tryon was...

watching it on FEI TV with the WEG pass, disappointing that it doesn't even make the Red Button until later, even if it is around on the BBC Sports site. Looks very windy, wonder if the rain is going to make an appearance before the end. edit: yes, the Swedish horse looked very, very lame...

Out of the choice of one site, they chose the best candidate! They didn't really have a lot of choice after Bromont, Canada pulled out. Anywhere that would take them, and the Longines sponsored FEI had strong objections to the only other even remotely possible candidate - the then Rolex Kentucky...

There is a little grain of truth in the "lots of horses make it easier to climb world rankings" thing - they're based on the top 6 results over the last twelve months with three days scoring significantly more than 1 days. So if you only have one exceptional horse that, say, wins Badminton and...

In fairness, I think Away Cruising surprised Harry from what he was saying, so selection was probably never in his mind in the first place! Fab result for him, though, and hopefully they can build on that to bigger successes. I was sort of hoping - once Toddy was eliminated - that Harry would...

I can understand why they choose to do it - same reason as the motorsports montages include all the crashes there. Both sports look (don't shoot me) boring and easy when they go well. So shots of things not going well are "exciting" and hammer in the stakes. And I can understand why some...

There's a quote from Andreas Dibowski on vielkeitigskeit-deutschland and as far as my terrible German can tell, he and Avedon are bruised but otherwise fine. ("Zum Glück haben wir uns außer ein paar blauen Flecken nichts getan. Avedon konnte an Sprung 7 eingefangen werden")