Pictures Piggy March “pooping her panties“ at “proper five, like six, star” XC at Maryland

Peregrine Falcon said:
Ian Stark was a pleasure to watch ride-totally fearless. Although watching Murphy Himself launching himself at the jumps was somewhat frightening at times.
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He is a also a very talented instructor, I went to a couple of clinics he did 30 odd years ago and he made them such fun and was so nice and approachable. My all time favorite eventer. Murphy in his prime was a sight to behold.
 
Rowreach said:
Just how far are they going to go with this "sport"?
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meesha said:
Such a shame they feel the need to ...test the horse and rider .. in this way when the consequences of one mistake are fatal...

Why push to the extremes .. so sad
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He is provocative, and I don't agree with all his posts, but this US trainer makes some very interesting points about modern XC on his page.

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sbloom said:
Wrong link, how odd.

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But the trakhener design that he says is dangerous has been a standard of cross country courses since the year dot, and I've jumped many of them. The horse ignores the ditch and focuses on the top line of the log. For the horse it's no different from jumping a suspended log with no ditch, it's rider fright that usually causes them to duck into the ditch.

This is the Eland 90cm course.

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gosh you certainly find provocative posters who love click bait and pie in the sky.

Any jump can be dangerous to a horse. A log on the floor can be jumped badly by a cob or a 5* horse on the day with many different variables.

I thought the Maryland course was great. The riders had to really think, the time was tough and horses read it well. Horses who were not good enough were not punished but didn’t get round either.
 
ycbm said:
But the trakhener design that he says is dangerous has been a standard of cross country courses since the year dot, and I've jumped many of them. The horse ignores the ditch and focuses on the top line of the log. For the horse it's no different from jumping a suspended log with no ditch, it's rider fright that usually causes them to duck into the ditch.

This is the Eland 90cm course.

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"Gurgle the Greek, ridden by British eventer Rachel Bayliss, slid under the “Stockholm Fence” during an especially muddy Badminton in 1973 and managed to come out the other side with rider intact."
 
Ellibelli said:
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"Gurgle the Greek, ridden by British eventer Rachel Bayliss, slid under the “Stockholm Fence” during an especially muddy Badminton in 1973 and managed to come out the other side with rider intact."
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It annoys the pants off her that she's most famous for that! He slid into the ditch on his feet. She pulled his head down and under the fence and galloped away. At the time, that occurred no penalties as she went between the flags!
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Ellibelli said:
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"Gurgle the Greek, ridden by British eventer Rachel Bayliss, slid under the “Stockholm Fence” during an especially muddy Badminton in 1973 and managed to come out the other side with rider intact."
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And she was judged to have cleared the fence without penalties - they changed the rules after that.
 
ycbm said:
But the trakhener design that he says is dangerous has been a standard of cross country courses since the year dot, and I've jumped many of them. The horse ignores the ditch and focuses on the top line of the log. For the horse it's no different from jumping a suspended log with no ditch, it's rider fright that usually causes them to duck into the ditch.

This is the Eland 90cm course.

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Smart jump....but is your arm in a cast????
 
ycbm said:
But the trakhener design that he says is dangerous has been a standard of cross country courses since the year dot, and I've jumped many of them. The horse ignores the ditch and focuses on the top line of the log. For the horse it's no different from jumping a suspended log with no ditch, it's rider fright that usually causes them to duck into the ditch.

This is the Eland 90cm course.

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I need to know, is the rider wearing a horse boot on their arm?

I love how relaxed the horse looks.
 
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