It’s the 29th week of the season and our statistical series continues with facts from Moreton Morrell, South of England, Bricky and more
Dates: 20 – 27 September, 29th week of the 2015 season
The basics
COOLEY AGAIN Collett, Laura
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Number of British Eventing (BE) fixtures: seven (Pontispool (2), Moreton Morrell (2), Kelsall Hill (2), South of England, Aske (2), Bricky, Brooksby Melton College (2))
Number of BE sections run this week: 126
Number of FEI sections run in Britain this week: three
Event with most sections: Kelsall Hill – 33
Number of BE sections run so far this year: 2295
Number of combined BE and FEI sections run so far this year: 2361
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Number of BE fixtures run so far this year: 147
COOLEY EARL Strang, Georgie
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Best dressage scores
Pontispool: 14, scored by Alexander Bragg and Bloomfield Tiger Two, who won BE100 section H on this scoreMoreton Morrell: 16.8, for Ritchie Heaney and Dhi Jet Set. They won BE100 section F despite 5.2 time-faults across countryKelsall Hill: 17, for Alex Hua Tian and William XVII, who finished third in novice section N with 10 cross-country time-faultsSouth of England: 22.5, scored by Laura Collett and Dacapo, who won novice section L with an additional 3.2 cross-country time-faultsAske: 22.3, for Annie Ballamy and Grafik III who won BE100 section L on this scoreBricky: 20.8, scored by Katie Hancock and Kilcandra Rambo Ray, who won the BE100 regional final on their dressage scoreBrooksby Melton College: 18, for Lisa Clarke-Spence and Tough Customer, who won BE90 section F on this score
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4: number of pairs inside the 4min 41sec optimum time over the novice course at Pontispool. They were Dani Evans (Marstonpark Lipina), Millie Dumas (Penhill Touch Of Class), Victoria Fleming (Olsie) and Alice Kneen (Come Along Springtime)
1: number of pairs inside the 5min 33sec optimum time over the intermediate course at Kelsall Hill. They were Aimee Penny and Hirondelle De Fribois B, who finished second in intermediate section V
2: number of pairs inside the 5min 57sec optimum time over the CIC* course at South of England. They were Rebecca Gibbs on Woodlands Springtime and Nat Dixon riding Party Juice
3: number of pairs inside the 5min 3sec CIC* course at Aske. They were Sarah Parkes riding Cyres and Christopher Whittle on Foxglove Skylark
4: number of pairs inside the 5min 24sec optimum time over the novice course at Bricky. They were Jo Rimmer (Diamond Bobby), Jade Lazenby (Hullahbaloo), Georgina Ewell (Zoretto), Eloise Bartlett (Killacoran Blue)
And also…
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1: number of events cancelled this week. Burnham Market was taken off the calendar due to insufficient entries
100: percentage of starters to finish the BE90 regional final at Pontispool
8: number of starters to finish under-21 open intermediate section N at Pontispool
8: number of starters to finish intermediate section C at Aske
41: percentage of starters not to finish under-21 open intermediate section N at South of England
100: percentage of starters to complete BE90 open section K at Brooksby
3: number of riders from New Zealand to finish in the top six at Moreton Morrell’s novice section A. They were Neil Spratt on Galwaybay Echo (second), Lucy Jackson on Global Cobra (third) and Caroline Powell on Chance Encounter VII (sixth)
5: number of horses Padraig McCarthy competed in the BE100 at Kelsall Hill. They were Ringwood Kenco, Castlefield Romeo, MGH Maccabee, Garrybritt Lando and Tintern Tinker
40: number of starters to complete the BE100 regional final at Bricky
Further afield
Oliver Townend and Ashdale Cruise Master
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20,000: amount in dollars that 21 year-old US eventer Jacob Fletcher and Atlantic Domino won in the Gold Cup Final and the American Eventing Championships
44.3: Oliver Townend and Cooley SRS’s winning dressage score at the CCI3* at Ballindenisk in Ireland
Full reports from South of England (2), Aske (2), Kelsall Hill (2), Pontispool (2) and Waregem in H&H this week, out Thursday, 1 October 2015
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