Today at the Olympic Equestrian & other news

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                  Today at the Olympic Equestrian Showjumping

As some of you well know, the Olympic Showjumping was on today at Greenwich Park. For those of you that missed it, I have all that you need to know!

Some of you might have figured out by now that I live in Ireland. Which means that I'l mostly be talking about how my country's team did, but today I have more facts on Ireland and different countries. 

Mark Kyle for Ireland  was the first Irish competitor to jump. He knocked a rail, which is 4 faults. He got two time faults which, altogether, is 6 faults. 

Aoife Clark and Joesph Murphy, also for Ireland, both got double clear rounds; they got no time or jump faults. Congrats!

The three people that got the most faults:

Philip Dutton on Mystery Whisperer (USA) (Honestly, if I don't how many jump faults and time faults, I just know it altogether)

23 faults

Jessica Phoenix (CAN) 12 jump faults, 2 time faults, 14 faults

Ruy Fonseca (BRAZIL) 12 jump faults, 0 time faults, 12 faults

Joesph Murphy Was on his fantastic horse Electric Cruise. Aoife Clark was on her amazing horse Master Crusoe. Mark Kyle was on his fabulous horse Coolio. The Irish eventers put in a massive eventer that got them well up in the score board.

Lucinda Fredricks, riding for Australia, put in an amazing jump that got a double clear round. Lucinda is Clayton Fredricks wife, for those of you that didn't know.

There was a lot of pressure on Mary King. She needed to get a clear round so that GB could maintain their silver-medal position. Luckily she got a clear round!

Zara Philips (GB) 4 jump faults, 3 time faults

Nicola Wilson (GB) 4 jump faults, 0 time faults

Mary King (GB) Double clear round

Tina Cook (GB) 0 jump faults, 1 time fault

Once again, I'm in awe of Dirk Schrade for Germany, who got a double clear round on his big bay horse King Artus. Together the pair were fabulous!

Karren O'Connor (USA) Double clear

Tiana Coudray for USA was riding her magnificent dapple grey horse Ringwood Magister. Together they accumulated 8 jump faults.

Germany did great on the showjumping course. 

Dirk Schrade (GER) Double clear round

Sandra Auffarth (Ger) Double clear

Michael Jung (GER) Double Clear

Andrew Hoy (Aus) 8 jump faults

Andrew Nicholson (NZL) Double clear

Mark Todd (NZL) 4 jump faults, 3 time faults

Today was really busy with the team showjumping and the individual jumping has begun.

Good Luck Ireland!

1st. Germany
2nd. Great Britain
3rd. New Zealand
4th.Sweden
5th. Ireland

Oh, I almost forgot! My competition!

Lots of names were sent in for skewbalds. There is gonna be four winners. Two for naming a gelding, two for naming a mare. This girl won naming a mare, and she told me that she named this horse this certain name in memory of the Olympics.

The first winner is...

Trisha Rimwood! Trisha's horse name is "Olympia". Congrats Trisha!

This next winner has won naming another mare. She explained that how she had an old mare that died recently and entered the competition with the mare's name.

The second winner is...

Rachel Miller! Rachel's horse name is "Rosebud". Congrats Rachel!

The girl named a gelding after a skewbald in one of her favourite books. And guess what? It's my favourite too!

This winner is...

Hillary Brown! Hillary's horse name was "Comet". Congrats Hillary!

And this last winner named this gelding after her own horse she has at home!

This winner is...

Lily Scott! Lily's horse name was "Champion". Congrats!



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