the 2021 Maryland 5 Star winner steps down from high degree

Boyd Martin has withdrawn the 18-year-old mare On Cue from this week’s Maryland 5 Star and retired her from top-level eventing.

“Whereas she feels completely happy and wholesome, I felt she was beginning to battle in her remaining gallops and soar colleges,” he stated shortly earlier than right now’s first trot-up. “I’m extremely happy with all the things On Cue and I’ve achieved collectively, and after discussing it with [owners] the Turner household, we have now determined to step her down from the highest of the game.”

He added: “On Cue has been a real champion, ending within the high 10 at Burghley, Kentucky, and Maryland. She gave me my second ever five-star win on the inaugural Maryland 5 Star and she or he has additionally taken nationwide titles within the USEF five-star championship at Kentucky and the American Eventing Championships superior remaining, to not point out, being named mare and horse of the Yr in 2021.

“She’s one of some particular horses that modified my profession. I’m particularly proud that her final competitors was a win at Tryon. It could not do her justice if I attempted to make the most of her good nature by asking her to do one thing I used to be unsure her physique was able to.

“I’m deeply grateful to the Turner household for his or her unwavering assist of On Cue through the years. What we have now achieved collectively has been outstanding. I look ahead to persevering with to carry her offspring up by way of the degrees within the close to future!”

On Cue was bred in Yorkshire, from the “On” dynasty raised by Alyse Clancey and her daughter Jolyse Bell-Syer (née Clancey). She is by the Selle Français showjumper Cabri D’Elle and an excellent granddaughter of the Clanceys’ basis mare Augermist, who Alyse competed on the high degree.

Boyd began competing On Cue in 2017 and she or he gained six instances internationally, together with on the first five-star held at Maryland in 2021. She was tenth at Burghley Horse Trials final yr and fourth and better of the house aspect at Kentucky Three-Day Occasion in 2021.

Having retired On Cue, Boyd will now pilot Commando 3 and Tsetserleg TSF at Maryland this week.

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Pippa is a real eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand expertise of competing as much as British Eventing intermediate and worldwide CCI2*-L degree, and has labored within the trade on a high occasion yard. Pippa enjoys nothing greater than immersing herself within the sport on the highest degree, reporting from the five-stars and worldwide championships, together with the Olympics.