Greater mean power output was demonstrated for volleyball players wearing an above knee CG during 10 repeated vertical jump efforts [ 7].
The 11-year-old German-bred gelding was error-free over 13 numbered obstacles requiring 16 jumping efforts within the 80-second time allowed in the morning round.
Raymond Texel of Beverly Hills, Calif., piloted Pershing, a 9-year-old Westphalian-bred mare, to a clear round over the 14 obstacles requiring 17 jumping efforts.
They beat a field of 30 qualifiers by posting a fault-free score in the first round over 14 numbered obstacles requiring 17 jumping efforts within the 1 minute 36 seconds allowed.
Funnell steered Primmore's Pride over the 32 numbered obstacles requiring 45 jumping efforts on the 12-mile course within the time allowed to stay six penalties ahead of her teammate William Fox-Pitt, who was riding the Irish-bred Moon Man. Irish-bred Moon Man
The course required a dozen jumping efforts by its 18 competitors, including the teams from the United States, France and Canada, which sent its first all-female riding squad to the National and which will compete tonight in the Nations Cup.
But as shadowy vanguards of mass lawlessness go, Ismat and his friends were significantly less intimidating than the burly, armed officers sent to stop them from littering a car park with their dozing figures by day and deter their train-jumping efforts - sometimes brutally - by night.
The cross-country phase in horses at the CCI*** level comprises a distance up to 6270 m with 40 jumping efforts which should be completed at 570 m/min (9.5 m/s).
In ponies, the European Championship is ranked at the CCI** level, comprising a cross-country phase with a distance up to 4160 m with 30 jumping efforts which should be completed at 520 m/min (8.7 m/s).
During subsequent prematch testing sessions, if performance during sprinting or jumping efforts was 2.5% lower than the familiarisation session (eg, an increase in time in the first sprint of the repeated-sprint ability test), 18 the test was immediately terminated and repeated after 2 3 min of rest (this occurred two times).
