Kentucky Three-Day Event

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Terrain ride for the 2007 event

The Kentucky Three-Day Event is an annual eventing competition . It is played in the last week of April at the Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington , Kentucky , in the week before the Kentucky Derby .

It is the only competition in the USA that is classified as the highest category CCI **** by the World Equestrian Federation FEI (the other competitions of this level are the Badminton Horse Trials , the Burghley Horse Trials , the Australian International Three Day Event , the Luhmühlen Eventing and the Étoiles de Pau ). The three most traditional competitions in this category (Badminton, Burghley, Kentucky) are collectively referred to as the " Grand Slam of Eventing ".

The total prize money is US $ 250,000 . The results of the six CCI **** tournaments worldwide have also resulted in an overall ranking created by the FEI since 2008 ( HSBC FEI Classics ™); the top five in this ranking will receive a total of US $ 333,000 in prize money.

Despite its name (Three Day = three days), the competition extends over four days. Because of the high number of participants, dressage riding takes two days (Thursday and Friday), followed by a day of cross-country riding (Saturday) and show jumping (Sunday).

In 1974 Bruce Davidson and the American team each won the gold medal at the World Championships in Burghley. This gave the Americans the right to host the 1978 World Cup in their own country. The Kentucky Horse Park near Lexington offered itself as a venue. The great financial success of the World Cup led the Organizing Committee to hold an event of this type in Lexington every year.

Until 2017, Rolex was the name sponsor of the event ( Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event ). Land Rover took over this sponsorship for the first time in 2018, and the tournament is now called the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event .

Winners list

(The horses are given in brackets)

Web links

Commons : Kentucky Three-Day Event  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Land Rover becomes Kentucky title sponsor , Dominique Wehrmann / St. Georg, October 12, 2017
  2. ↑ COVID-19 Forces Cancellation of Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian ™ and Kentucky CSI3 * Invitational Grand Prix presented by Hagyard Equine Medical Institute , press release, March 16, 2020