A tumultuous eventing championship, overshadowed by Hurricane Florence making her way steadily across the Carolinas, led to a nail-biting finish at
the 2018 FEI World Equestrian
Games in Tryon, North Carolina in September, culminating with the top seven riders separated by one rail in the show jumping phase of the competition.
EUROPEANS DOMINAT W
By Amber Heintzberger
hen British rider Rosalind Canter and her 13-year- old KWPN gelding Allstar B (Ephebe For Ever x Narenca B, by Ekstein) jumped clear as the next
to last pair to go in the show jumping, she claimed team gold for Great Britain and assured herself of an individual silver medal at minimum. When cross-country leaders Ingrid Klimke and the 14-year-old Oldenburg gelding SAP Hale Bob OLD (Helikon Xx x Goldige, by Noble Champion) had the very last fence on course down, Rosalind became the new World Eventing Champion on a final score of 24.6.
Individual Medalists Based at her family’s farm in Lincolnshire, England, Rosalind owns Allstar B in partnership with Caroline Moore. Previ- ously the horse and rider pair’s most notable success was finishing fifth individually and earning team gold at the Euro- pean Championships at Strzegom, Poland last summer. “Our team is phenomenal—everyone at home helps me make the dream come true, really,” she says. Rosalind adds that she has changed her style of riding
since working with trainer Chris Bartle, and that it helped her keep her cool in the show jumping round, with the fate of the British team resting on her performance. “It’s less intense, with a longer rein, so I’m not in the horse’s way,” she says. “It’s always about the horse with Chris; instead of getting nervous [in the show jumping] it was all about the process, focus- ing on my job, keeping the reins long.” She also says that the experience of having competed at the European Champion- ship gave her the confidence to go in and get the job done. Irish rider Padraig McCarthy and the (rather fit and
athletic) 13-year-old SHBGB (British sport horse) gelding Mr. Chunky (Jumbo x Avin Fun Bar, by Sergeant Drummer) jumped clear to leap from seventh after cross-country to claim the individual silver on 27.2—the first individual medal for Ireland since 1978. Padraig switched to eventing from the show jumping
world and says that he has plenty of experience jumping bigger courses than the one he saw at WEG, which helped take the pressure off. “He’s a great jumper,” he said of Mr. Chunky during Monday’s press conference. “The horse was jumping brilliant, so I didn’t go in with any pressure since I wasn’t in medal position.” The British-bred Mr. Chunky was previously ridden up to
the four-star level by Padraig’s wife Lucy (nee Wiegersma), who bought him as an unbroken four-year-old. He was bred by Sue Trump, who lives near the McCarthys’ base in Devon,
Left: Padraig McCarthy of Ireland, Rosalind Canter of Great Britain, and Ingrid Klimke of Germany.
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