Great Britain has done it. Silver in 3 Day Eventing, Gold in Team Jumping, Gold in Team Dressage.

Can't believe Great Britain beat Germany in team dressage.  Germany has always ruled in dressage with my favorite rider Klaus Klimpke.  I even had to buy a pair of spurs designed by him.  Now I'll have to get British spurs. Just wish I could still ride. I haven't ridden dressage for quite a few years now.

Once again Congratulations.

In equestrian jumping each course has a time limit and for every second over ther is 1 time fault, for each jump where a rail is knocked down there are 4 faults, for each refusal from the horse there are 4 faults. If a horse refuses the jump twice the horse and rider are disqualified. In this case the rider from Netherlands had a clear round, no faults or time faults.  The riders from Switzerland and Ireland finish with 1 time fault a piece so they were tied for silver. In this case there is a jump-off.  In a jump-off There is no set time for the course so if each rider has a clear round the rider with the shortest time wins. The rider from Switzerland went first and had a clear round with a time just over 47 seconds. This forces the second rider to beat the time and have a clear round. Cian O'Connor was under the time but not knowing how far under he was he raced to the last fence but do to a longer stride he couldn't take off in the right place and took down a rail with his hind legs and lost the silver. I realy thought he was going to win and fell off my chair when the rail came down.

Now tomorrow will be the greatest horse show you could ever watch. The riders will test for dressage and will ride to a choreographed music.  It's like dancing with a horse.