Inside my 2016 Kentucky Five Star Ride 

I get tears in my eyes. What a team. Next Year.......and the creek don't rise.

Anya H She does.

Reins can be made to be comfortable.

I hate riding with gloves. Its just a preference thing

Absolutely! I just want to cry with happiness at how beautiful this is.

Thank you for volunteering!! We couldn’t do it without you!! I do remember how it stopped after the last horse. I tend to think rain is good luck for me and Johnny ;)

The clay ground and thick bluegrass at the Kentucky horse Park have an amazing ability for absorbing rain and still being firm enough (in most places) that we don’t see too much slipping and sliding, most years. There are exceptions, of course.

Aida McEwen he is 19 this year.

Elisa Wallace Eventing 19 and spry enough to be an Olympic alt?? That’s insane!

@@WallaceEventingoh my goodness! I thought the other comment was a joke! Well done you and Johnny! Keep on going

Well. This was back in 2016 but I did apply for the Olympics this year. Because you never know. And now covid 🤦‍♀️

idnic You may be thinking of 2015, when it was extremely wet and in the 30°. range. That year, I was stationed at the water jump up on the hill north of the competitors’ stabling where the Lexington Bank used to be. In 2016, when Elisa’s video here was made, it did rain the whole time, but it was considerably warmer than 2015. It wasn’t fun to get wet through to our skin, but at least our hands weren’t so numb that they couldn’t write anything down! We jump judges were so cold in 2015 that we had to take turns sitting inside the vets’s vehicle, with the engine running, to warm up. The vet’s dog didn’t like us coming in and out and kept howling the entire time we were trying to get warm. Our hands were so numb we could not write down any comments as the horses went by. That was miserable.

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@@WallaceEventing haha. I thought so!! Your amazing with that horse!

Kathryn Durham Hang in there.

I should add...the reason I, an ex-IHSA Collegiate Hunter-Jumper who rode for her university's team, do not find XC appealing, is that in my youth I had a trainer who kept me on the same lesson horse and that horse always darted out on almost every single jump and that was while I was attempting to learn how to jump. And I only went once a week for lessons. it wasn't until my instructor put me on a horse that had shown at the national horse show who was apparently trained and high high levels of dressage that I started to understand what made me happy on a horse. And that's HARMONY. I really want to get back into the sport. I simply cannot find a way to do it in an exorbitantly- overpriced-real estate area of the United States. It's fun watching your videos, though. My guess is if....on only one lesson a week, I was good enough to make my University team years later and we weren't all that bad and I was not the point rider yet earned points for the team by lottery drawing/horse assignment... It's all in good taste to say that it's all about how any horse is trained and the rider respecting that and understanding the horse and their own body, thereafter.

It’s bigger and more difficult.

@@WallaceEventing Thank you so much 🙏 I was wondering what the difference was.