Five Horses Held, All Accepted in Boekelo’s First Horse Inspection

Ahh, Military Boekelo, what a place you are. A place full of hyper-fresh horses, spurred on by the sudden chill in the air; a place full of competitive merriness and merry competitiveness; a place where even just making it to the first horse inspection in one piece is a high-stakes sport in itself. Every last moment of the year’s Nations Cup finale, and one of the best-loved CCI4*-L events in the calendar, is exciting and joyful and a bit bonkers, and so it’s fitting that it would start with high drama in today’s first horse inspection, really.

Five of the 75 presented horses were sent to the holding box by the assembled ground jury of president Christina Klingspor (SWE), Edith Schless-Störtenbecker (GER), and Merel Schurink (NED), making it a rather tense affair – not least because most of the folks on site had toasted the start of the world’s biggest party event with the traditional Tuesday night table-dancing session until the wee hours.

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*Article written by: Tilly Berendt