Boyd Martin rides Tsetserleg in the cross-country phase of the 2024 American Eventing Championships. The pair, with past experience at Badminton and Fair Hill, runs a strong course with a time of 36.0 seconds, staying close behind Will Coleman's leading 35.6 seconds as they head into the final phase.
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And she's wasting no time either. And here is one we need to keep our eyes glued on. This is your overnight leader, Boyd Martin and Tetzer Lake, owned by Christine Turner. They represented the United States on the international scene so many times. They have been the top place American combination at the five star here in the past and they've traveled the world back and forth so much together. Yes. Yesterday they laid out a brilliant performance together and you could see on the expression on Boyd's face how thankful he is to have Thomas and how much fun they have together every time out. So here we're going to see how they can make of this track in terms of really eyeing the time he sits on.24.0. Will Coleman in the clubhouse on Diablo are the best we've seen so far in terms of that time. And he's already been around this track once. So Will added 7.6. He's on third, 35.6. Boyd is on 36.0. So just point four separating first and second in the clubhouse. Some of our fans there trying to get a picture of Thomas. Thomas has his own fan club. Absolutely. It's also a testament to Boyd's remarkable team and his head's, you know, groom stuff and hours and hours behind the scenes here. Everybody that is on Boyd's team. Because Thomas, you know, looking full of run and great here, gets a little deep there to that brush, but that'll be no trouble for them for how small this horse is. It just ate up the distance in that first water. So Brook continues to have a great ride around a little over halfway through. Their last run together was at Badminton earlier this year where they finished in the top half of the division. Part of that, they navigated the advance at Fair Hill and they also were ninth out of 58 last year at Burley. That's just a couple. You think about partnerships a lot. You think about great ones, but this is truly such a great partnership because, you know, Thomas is like the little horse that could you keep asking him the questions early on in his career and he was just so willing to give you everything in his heart. And he and Boyd have such a decorated resume, but really they have such a special partnership. And Boyd loves this horse so much last year. Perfect. Yeah. There's few combinations that have are so experienced, these two together. So you see Thomas open up there as Boyd's gonna try to irk out every second he can. He was our leader, of course, do have some padding on the time to get to where Will Coleman is. That score is 35.6. They're on 24.0. We have just four starters left to watch after this. There on the bottom of your score or on your screen, you see Lindsay Transnell, our next out of the box on Basie Rouge. But we are going to stick right here with Boyd Martin as far as we can around this track for you. Nicely done there through that drop and those combinations. And you see him, you know, really laser focused, accelerating as fast as he can fly. I mean, he's very capable of doing just about any combination of in there here you see Boyd say, whoa, boy. Sit up. That's the partnership paying off right there. Wow. Boyd gets just a little bit unseated, which we don't see. But Thomas never wavers. He just continues his perfectly paced canter right through the flags. And that was pretty brilliant. Nicely done through there. There's Boyd. We pick him back up. Thanks to our friends at Horse and Country and still having a storm and round, our leader. Can it be good enough to hold on? And Boyd would also probably love to have a little bit of a cushion going into that final phase tomorrow night. It never hurts to have one of those. You see Thomas there at that table. Say, come on, let's just. Let's get going here. We don't need to wait. Textbook for that combination. And now they're going to put the pedal to the metal. We are going to see if Tetzer Leg can maintain that lead going into our. They're another one that's been together a long time. The 2011 by Owned by Patricia Pierce. As we cut back here to Boyd. This is the final splash. Water beautiful through there. Triple bar. Yep. And now he's going to say, let's go, Thomas. Two to go for Boyd Martin and Tetzer Leg, owned by, of course, by the longtime supporter Christine Turner. You can tell Boyd knows every second. Thomas getting a little strong at the finish. You saw Boyd have to check him just one extra time. And Thomas says, come on, hurry up. Go. So through the finish, they are clear. We will get you our time.
