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2 months ago | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk |Jocelyn Pierce
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
The ground jury of the 2024 MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill passed all eight horses at the MD5* CCI5* Second Horse Inspection Sunday morning. The horses and riders will move on to the show-jumping phase this afternoon starting at 3 p.m. EST. This is the final day of the Cecil County competition. Below is a gallery of the MD5* CCI5* Second Horse Inspection. For a start order for Sunday’s CCI5* show-jumping phase, click here.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
The 2024 MARS Maryland 5 Star cross-country day saw a field of 21 CCI5* horse-and-rider pairs start the course. By the end of the day, only eight had completed designer Ian Stark’s track of 28 numbered fences. In the lead is Oliver Townend (GBR) and Ballaghmor Class. David Doel (GBR) and Galileo Nieuwmoed, the only pair to complete the course fault free, jumped 14 spots to second place. And Tim Price (NZL) and Falco sit in third.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
Competitors at the 2024 MARS Maryland 5 Star presented by Brown Advisory in Cecil County, Maryland, presented their CCI5* horses Wednesday afternoon in the First Horse Inspection on a sunny but windy day. They presented 23 horses who will contest the five-star event. The ground jury held one horse, Game Changer, who they then accepted when Grace Taylor (USA) represented him. The riders in the field represent five countries, including USA, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
This week’s Practical Horseman Podcast, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, is with health and wellness coach Ruben Mahboobi. He spoke with us last spring after the 2024 Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event. In this episode, Rubee talks about what riders need to do to have balance in their lives. That balance is the foundation of overall health, he says. A healthy person, who is balanced in body, mind, and spirit, is a better rider, he adds.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
dressagetoday.com | Sandra Oliynyk
July 29, 2024—The Paris Olympic dressage Grand Prix start list has been announced. The dressage competition will begin with 30 riders competing on Day 1, Tuesday (July 30), and 30 riders on Day 2, Wednesday (July 31). A total of 15 teams and 15 individual horse-and-rider pairs will compete in the Grand Prix. Marcus Orlob and Adrienne Lyle will be the first U.S. Olympic dressage competitors to ride down centerline in Paris on Day 1. Orlob and Jane will compete at 1:57 p.m. local time (7:57 a.m. EST).
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
July 26, 2024—Caroline Pamukcu will be the U.S. Olympic pathfinder, along with HSH Blake, when eventing dressage begins tomorrow, July 27, 2024, at the 2024 Paris Olympics. They are sixth in the order of go and will ride their dressage test at 10 a.m. local time in Paris (4 a.m. EST) on Saturday, July 27. Germany will be the first team to compete. Its team member, Julia Krajewski and Nickel 21, will kickoff the competition as they ride down centerline at 9:30 local time (3:30 a.m. EST).
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
Will Coleman and Twizzel represented the United States at the 2012 London Olympics. He was again part of the U.S. Eventing Team at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon with Tight Lines. A career highlight came when Coleman and Off The Record won the prestigious 2021 CCIO4*-S Aachen in Germany. Continued success a year later led to Off The Record’s selection for the FEI Eventing World Championship in Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
What’s the best training advice you’ve been given? If you’re anything like the 10 Olympic eventers we posed this question to at the 2024 Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event, you may need to think about it for moment. Whether an amateur or Olympian, we’ve all learned lessons and had help from other horsepeople along the way. For many, riding is a lifelong pursuit, which means you’re bound to accumulate a lot of great advice over the years. So what’s helped these riders make it to the top?
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
practicalhorsemanmag.com | Sandra Oliynyk
Although Paul Ridgeon has sponsored Olympic eventer Oliver Townend and other top riders, such as New Zealand’s Andrew Nicholson, he had yet to own a horse that had won a five-star. That changed Sunday when Townend (GBR) and Cooley Rosalent won the 2024 Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian on Sunday. They entered the show-jumping phase in third place and then jumped a double-clear show-jumping round.
