Good morning from Omaha! We’ve got a full slate of FEI World Cup madness on the docket, and we’re getting right to business. Wednesday night, the show jumpers had their first arena familiarization, and riders generally seemed pleased with the venue, the footing, and their shot at the title. We are locked at loaded for a first round showdown tonight.
Order of Go:
US Riders:
7. Jame Barge/Luebbo
8. Jenni McAllister/Legis Touch the Sun
11. Todd Minikus/Babalou
19. Charlie Jacobs/Cassinja S
21. McLain Ward/HH Azur
31. Laura Kraut/Zeremonie
35. Audrey Coulter/Capital Cornado
37. Karl Cook/Tembla
Class 1 Details:
Tonight is a speed class, per Table C rules. Fences will be set to 1.60 m. Per the FEI Rulebook, “The sole purpose for using Table C scoring is to give a skillful Athlete with an unlucky knockdown an opportunity to obtain a reasonable placing.”
There will not be a jump-off in case of equal placing in this round. There is a purse available to athletes tonight of €100,000.
Link to FEI World Cup Jumping Rules
Schedule:
(Note that all times listed are CENTRAL STANDARD TIME):
Grand Prix Dressage begins at 2:00 p.m. CST and we anticipate transitioning to the show jumping arena setup at around 5:30 p.m. CT. The course walk will be 6:30, with rounds starting at 7.
Viewing / Live Updates:
You can watch all the dressage and show jumping action in real time on FEI TV with a subscription.
For those who can’t watch or subscribe, or if you simply want a handy guide to the who, what, when and where as you’re watching, Jumper Nation will be running a live update thread of round by round coverage. The link will be at the top of our home page, and you’ll simply refresh the story intermittently to get the new updates.
Keep it locked on JN throughout the day for more coverage from Omaha, and stick around through the wee hours, as we’ve got a reporter on the ground who will be hooking you up with live coverage from Omaha!
Go Jumping.
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