As the day's third-to-last starter, Germany's Michael Jung and La Biosthetique-Sam FBW made the cross-country course look easy at the Eventing World Championships, presented by Reem Acra. The pair added nothing to their dressage penalty score of 33.00, to keep the lead they took Friday (Oct. 1) in the dressage phase at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

Creeping up behind Jung after equally impressive rounds were Great Britain's William Fox-Pitt on Cool Mountain, finishing on their dressage score of 42.00, and the United States' Becky Holder on Courageous Comet, finishing on 42.50. (Courageous Comet was withdrawn this morning; more details to come later today.)

Of the 79 horses that started Saturday's course, 60 finished (75.9%). Some 13 riders, including Jung and Fox-Pitt, finished faster than the ideal time of 11:14 and added nothing to their dressage penalties.

Jung, 28, said his warm-up didn't go as he'd planned, because of a hold on course. "I was on my horse almost double the time I normally would have been," said Jung. "The big problem was I just didn't know when I would start. There was also a really fresh wind that came up, and I didn't want my horse to get very cool. I wanted to keep him really warm