Since being named to the U.S dressage team, Laura Graves has utilized some time away from the competition ring to focus on the details with Verdades since trainer Debbie McDonald has been on hand at the farm in Belgium for some last-minute assistance.
Since we last checked in with Kasey Perry-Glass and Goerklintgaards Dublet, they competed at the CDIO***** at Rotterdam (the Netherlands) where the U.S. team finished second in the Nations Cups. The pair was originally slated to ride in the CDI**** at Aachen (Germany), but after some lower than average scores (74.58 percent in the Grand Prix and 71.76 percent in the Special) Perry-Glass elected to skip it and go back to the drawing board.
Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen traveled from their base in England to The Plains, Va., in early July to compete at the Land Rover U.S. eventing team’s final preparatory outing at the Land Rover Great Meadow International CICO***. They won the division and led the U.S. team to a Nations Cup victory.
On a cool January morning in 2006, assistant trainer Peter Brette led me down the shed row of Michael Matz’s barn at Palm Meadows Training Center (Fla.) and introduced me to every horse.
There were stakes-caliber mares, reliable allowance horses and unraced, unproven colts and fillies full of endless promise.
And then there was Barbaro—well, before he was the Barbaro we know and remember today.
In this series, the Chronicle follows seven riders as they seek to fulfill their Olympic dreams in London in 2012.
I definitely felt that I had something to prove at the first two observation events during the Kentucky Spring Horse Show.
My performance at the selection trials in March was unbelievable, but I have to keep showing that it wasn’t just a lucky week, that I have the ability to perform that way all the time. I have to keep impressing the selectors.
In this series, the Chronicle follows seven riders as they seek to fulfill their Olympic dreams in London 2012.
In this series, the Chronicle follows seven riders as they seek to fulfill their Olympic dreams in London in 2012.
The Olympic short list for eventing became official, and since Mr. Medicott and I are on it, we’ll be heading to England in less than a week. We’re a little more than six weeks out from the Olympic Games, and the journey just charges on.
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