Tom McEwen on the rostrum

Tom McEwen holds second for Britain on the conclusion of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Occasion cross-country day.

Tom and JL Dublin, owned by Jo and James Lambert and Deirdre Johnston, put in a leaping clear as we speak over Derek di Grazia’s course with 5.2 time-faults to carry the runner-up place they occupied after dressage.

“He was class – straight as a die,” stated Tom, who took over the trip after Nicola Wilson’s accident at Badminton Horse Trials final 12 months.

“He’s an exceptional horse. Contemplating that is my sixth run on him, it’s large credit score to Nicola and every little thing she’s performed that I can hop on and get spherical a real five-star course that has loads of challenges.

“Like I stated, it’s my sixth run on him and 4 of these runs have been fairly good open intermediates. I do know he is aware of what he’s doing, however I’ve by no means had a problem with the hills, depth, terrain and fences like right here at Kentucky on him, so I couldn’t be any extra delighted. He was superb.

“He completed up very well and I’m wanting ahead to leaping tomorrow.”

Commenting on his time-faults, Tom added: “He flowed by means of the course effectively. At instances, I took a little bit of time at a number of the fences to ensure I used to be useless proper, however over time the connection will construct and we’ll be flowing spherical very well.”

Forward of and behind Tom, the order modified round. Tamie Smith has moved up two spots to take the lead with Mai Baum, whereas Liz Halliday-Sharp rose from fifth to 3rd with the promising younger Miks Grasp C, owned by Ocala Horse Properties and Deborah Palmer, who got here residence simply 4 seconds over the optimum time.

Germany’s Sandra Auffarth rose from ninth after the primary part to fourth with Viamant Du Matz, who went clear contained in the time.

Will Coleman was fourth after dressage on Chin Tonic, who had 14 time-faults and has dropped to eleventh. However Will does now sit fifth on the skilled Off The File, who went clear within the time as we speak.

David Doel was the one British rider to report a transparent contained in the optimum time over the Kentucky Three-Day Occasion cross-country problem as we speak, coming residence 19 seconds contained in the goal. He and Gillian Jonas’s Galileo Nieuwmoed sit in eighth place in a single day, up from twenty second after dressage.

Zara Tindall, who put in a leaping clear as we speak on Class Affair, lies 18th going into tomorrow’s showjumping. Yasmin Ingham and Banzai Du Loir are in twenty first after their disappointing day and Kirsty Chabert and Basic VI maintain twenty third.

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