Even if you can’t get there to see the live action in person, the organisers have made it very easy to keep up to date with the events at Kentucky this week with lots to see and do on their fully interactive website.
Photo: Doug Pensinger
You can purchase a live webcast online as well as staying up to date with the live leader board. The homepage is continually updated with a full commentary of the days proceedings; an extract from the first is below;
Americans Dominate on Day One of Dressage
By Jeannie Blancq Putney
Twenty-five of fifty-three riders performed their dressage test on day one with three well known names in the top three slots. Karen O’Connor and Mandiba are leading the pack with 43.7 penalty points, Becky Holder and Courageous Comet have 45.2 penalty points, and Phillip Dutton and The Foreman (one of his four mounts this week) are currently in the third spot with a score of 47.2.
To read the full commentary please visit http://www.rk3de.org/index.php
You can even follow the progress of the horse trials on social networks twitter and facebook.
Kentucky Horse Park, host to the only CCI**** three-day event in the Americas is the prestigious Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. Four stars is the highest level of competition in eventing, the same level of competition as at the Olympics, making the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event one of the world’s toughest and most respected three-day competitions.
Photo: Doug Pensinger
The Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event is one of the three competitions in the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing. In order to win this prestigious award the rider must win the Rolex Kentucky Three- Day Event, the UK’s Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials in the first week of May, and the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, held in the first week of September, all in succession. So far the Grand Slam feat has only been achieved by one rider -Pippa Funnell, who won all three competitions in 2003 on two different horses.
Leading British event rider Oliver Townend completed the British four-star double in 2009 when he added the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials title, on board Carousel Quest, to the one he won at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials in May on Flint Curtis. Townend’s result sets up a thrilling competition in Kentucky, when he could become only the second rider, after Pippa Funnell, to secure the coveted Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing prize.
In January 2008, Rolex announced that any rider who can duplicate Pippa Funnell’s achievement will now win an increased prize of $350,000.
Another feature not to be missed is a virtual course walk at… http://www.rk3de.org/virtual_course.php
