Maybe it should be a requirement for the course designers to actually be able to ride their own course.

I was listening to the broadcast and apparently there was a VERY heated debate among the riders and course designers about this course design and how it would exhaust the horses in the humidity and heat ...not only that it is clearly set up for failure. The horses are notably at exhaustion point and you usually only see that with very few at the end....not well thought out at all.

The fact that this video is over 20 minute long says somthing 😬

And it's always on the same jumps and combinations... almost like it's not the riders' or horses' faults. Almost as if the course designers need some re-education about safe and effective course making

Eventing has become a spectator sport instead of a "horse sport"!! Stupidly designed jumps,  teeny corners and dangerous combinations that just  ask for wrecks and falls. We used to hold lower level horse trials at our farm..safe and fun....now I can hardly watch some of the videos. We no longer sell horses as event prospects! Sad...and inhumane in some cases.

Those corners are dangerous! for both rider and horse.🤕

Some of these people look like they should not be competing with a live animal.

Good to see a fair few bad falls avoided by collapsing fences and some riders being sensible by withdrawing

AMEN!! IT has become a thrills and spills, BLOOD SPORT.

2:50 what kind of psycho sends it over another jump after landing in the middle of one.

I used to show stadium jumpers and I stayed as far away from eventing as possible. Good way to seriously injure your horse.

The combination in Huntsman's Close was not a fair question IMHO.

Thank goodness they have the let-up fences these days ❤

Sometimes you do think either the rider or horse should not be going round this course 🤦‍♀️🐎

I love eventing, it has been my sport for 60 years but  the upper admins have taken the sport away from the horse in the effort to turn it into a spectatour sport. Never has been, never will be.. There is only one way thru some of these obstacles and only the human can see it. Please GOD walk your courses, folks.

Those corners are unfair and ridiculous!!

Did ANYONE make it clear through that horribly designed “Huntsman’s Close” with the ridiculously placed, TOO narrow set of left hand corners??

2:01 did you see the way the owner was holding the reins, their hands don’t need to be that high up.

Thank god most fences are now built to collapse if they're hit!

Think the course designers are finally getting it and the obstacles are not as inhumane as in years past.
Amazing how by all of the competitors.