The transcript captures live commentary from the Long Island T – Bruce’s Field Grand Prix Eventing held in February 2020. Speakers A, B, and Sam provide a play‑by‑play analysis of Boyd Martin’s performance on the 14‑year‑old gelding Long Island T. The discussion covers the dressage phase—highlighting the horse’s steady but less flamboyant trot, walk oversteps, and a slightly imperfect halt—along with the resulting score of 30.7 and a provisional 8.9 rating. The commentators note the rider’s ability to keep the horse balanced, manage tightness in the canter, and execute half‑pass changes. They also describe the show‑jumping round, mentioning specific obstacles (vertical, oxer), the horse’s tightness, and Boyd’s adjustments. Additional context includes the horse’s ownership by the Long Island T Syndicate, its previous 13th‑place finish at the Wellington Eventing Showcase, and Boyd Martin’s personal background (parents’ athletic history, recent fall, and other horses). The overall tone is analytical with occasional enthusiastic remarks about the horse’s steadiness and the event atmosphere.
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Yeah, I think we can definitely look for a good test here. Horse presents a really beautiful outline, a beautiful picture. Pretty darn consistent in this phase. Looking forward to seeing this test.
Boyd is currently in first place on a 30.7 on tester leg. It was a beautiful test. Is Long Island Sea.
Only thing keeping that from being a solid 8. 9. Was just a little bit not immobile in the halt,
but you can see that's a beautiful medium trot. Boyd kept the horse very nicely connected and up a hill sitting down the balance. We were talking about difference in some of these horses. Right. If the more they can be sitting and carrying themselves, it makes these movements so much easier.
Absolutely. Yeah.
And I'm sure it definitely helps be married to such a beautiful dressage. Violating this, like, sofa, huh?
Absolutely.
Get some inside pointers.
You said it,
Boy. That's lovely. See how still his hands are. Horse is just staying very through. Nice transition back.
Very interesting because this horse may not have the same real flamboyant movement of a couple of the other horses, but he's just very, very steady. Doesn't throw any. It doesn't really give away any points. Can show a really good medium and extended trot.
This is such a lovely horse. Three very nice gates.
Beautiful overstep. Four clear beats in the walk.
Getting a little bit distracted there in the medium walk. Boy's like, hey, stay with me. Get. Get back. Come on.
It's not over yet.
Sam,
That was very nice strike off into the canter. Setting up for the first of the four changes. A little bit expressive there.
A little bit fractious there.
While the sun is out. And it's beautiful. It's still a little bit brisk. There's a bit of breeze in the air. So these horses are probably feeling a little frisky this morning.
Yeah, it's strange for this horse.
It's hard when they get tight and bouncy like that to be able to sit down on them. Boy did a good job to get things put right back together to get into this Right. Half pass in the canter. Horse is getting a little bit tight. You can see we're losing the horse's cadence, the horse's balance. Right. Getting a little lower with his neck. That change was a little bit more manageable.
You can tell he's just a little bit. Just a little bit wound up and tight.
And board probably was being a little bit more conservative there with that extended canter.
Yeah.
Because again, we're going right then into having to lengthen the horse's neck Lengthen the reins, show the little bit of stretching.
Yeah. So for, you know, for every horse rider combination or, you know, the rider really has, you know, an expectation for what they're hoping to get out of the test. And you know, Arden's test was maybe not going to be the winner, but I think she was really happy as far as where that horse is in the training. This horse. Actually, I think Boyd would probably be a little bit disappointed. Disappointed because he can really throw down a very, very competitive test. Lovely trot work and just missed a little bit in the canter.
All right, so here we have Boyd Martin, Long Island Tee, owned by the Long Island T Syndicate. Boyd is out of order because again, like a couple of the other riders, he is standing in fifth place on this horse on a 31.4. This horse is owned by the Long Island Tea Syndicate, 14 year old old burg gelding and they are coming off a 13th place finish at the Wellington Eventing Showcase.
Boyd's another one that's here. He's done a great job at Stableview. He's brought a lot of people in and he does a lot of hard work. They work all day. Been very successful in the sport. Interesting. I never knew until I was doing my homework for this that his mother is American and she was a speed skater and his father was Australian cross country and they met at the 68 Olympics.
You never know where you would meet somebody. Right.
Produce Boyd.
Oh, unlucky there to have the A element down and he has to kind of.
Yeah, I think he had a bad fall on Saturday at Pinetop from what he said. But he did show on Sunday at Stable view in the $10,000 mini pre. It rode through that well. Right. Cuz the horse looked like that was a little bit long from one to from A to B for that horse.
And then having to settle a little bit out of the turn for this tall, airy vertical and then rolling back and Boyd saw that distance nice out of the turn forward to the good spot at the oxer.
See how he's shaped the turn there. Now he's jumping to the next.
That's right.
He's a good rider. So is the other girl, but I think she just didn't realize that probably was going to distract the horse a bit. Oh, oh boy.
Put the six in there and got up underneath that oxford bit and unlocked.
He probably should have stayed in the inside to the five right, but live and learn. He's got another horse, doesn't he?
He does, yeah. He is tied for third on Tester Leg. Coming up soon.
