Rolex Three-Day Event: Tryon and Le Samurai Take the Lead After Dressage

Day Two of dressage during the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, welcomed much drier skies than the previous day, and it provided a much nicer environment in which to wrap up the dressage phase and head into cross country

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Day Two of dressage during the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Farnam, welcomed much drier skies than the previous day, and it provided a much nicer environment in which to wrap up the dressage phase and head into cross country. At day’s end, Amy Tryon (U.S.) aboard Le Samurai, a 12-year-old Holsteiner/Thoroughbred gelding, took the overall top spot on the leaderboard. The horse is fairly new to Tryon, but that really didn’t show in today’s dressage test as they scored a 47.0.


Coming in second was Britain’s Polly Stockton aboard Tangleman (47.2). Third place went to Australia’s Clayton Fredericks and Ben Along Time (47.4). In fact, it was one thin point that separated the top five riders.


Tryon said that she only had about 40% of the horse’s attention when she went in the ring, and she admitted that she wasn’t convinced it was a really good ride during the first half.


“Physically it is easy for him, but mentally it’s challenging,” said Tryon. “He was all lit up by the atmosphere

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