The ASPCA Maclay Championship kicks off at 7 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Arena in Lexington.
Round 1 has 222 riders on the order of go. The schedule estimates the flat phase, which will include a minimum of 25 riders, will start time at 3:50 p.m. The second round of jumping will run immediately after that, at roughly 5:10 p.m.
Robin Brown and Michael Tokaruk will be judging the Maclay, Bobby Murphy and Kevin Holowack designed the course.
Other useful links and information:
The order of go is posted below, as well as a course map and a description of the course.
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• Link to National Horse Show order of go and daily results
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• For full analysis and coverage from the horse show be sure to check out the Nov. 21 issue of the magazine.
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Murphy and Holowack have presented a beautiful course with plenty of wingless standards and tests of the rider’s ability to control their horse’s stride. There is a dotted line at both the beginning and end of the course.
Riders will start the course heading away from the in-gate over a stone-brush wall with a white rail on top. They then will canter five strides to an airy square oxer with no wings. They turn left to Fence 3, which a skinny stone fence with a white gate beneath, designed after a fence used at the American Invitational in 1993. Riders then turn right to a wingless hogsback brush fence on the end of the arena with a white rail on top. They continue turning right across the diagonal to Fence 5AB, a pair of wingless fences with colorful boxes on top set a tight one stride apart. They’ll continue on a left bend in five strides to 6AB, a green oxer to another brush fence in one stride.
Fence 7, the ASPCA fence, comes off a left-handed rollback, set on the short end of the ring near the in-gate. Riders then turn right for five strides to Fence 8, another wingless fence with brush rails, three strides to a brush oxer at Fence 9. They’ll then continue on a right bend for six strides to Fence 10, a light green vertical. They’ll then rollback left around the end of the ring to head down opposite diagonal heading towards the in-gate. The first fence in the line is a stone triple bar, six strides to the final fence, a grey vertical with letters spelling “Maclay” underneath.
The Chronicle is on site at the National all week to bring you photos, stories and more. You can find full results from the show here, and don’t forget to read full analysis and coverage from the horse show in the Nov. 21 issue of the magazine.
