Tamie Smith – Olympics marketing campaign is over for US occasion rider

Tamie Smith has dominated herself and Mai Baum out of competition for the US eventing workforce on the Paris Olympics this summer season.

Final yr’s Kentucky Three-Day Occasion winner pulled away from his handler and “tweaked himself” earlier than Kentucky this yr and Tamie says there’s not sufficient time to arrange him earlier than the obligatory US workforce outing at Secure View (21-23 June).

“Main right into a a lot anticipated Olympic workforce choice subsequent week and after deliberating with our workforce and Mai Baum’s house owners, we have now determined to withdraw him from workforce consideration,” stated Tamie final week.

“This was a troublesome choice as a result of we have now felt Mai Baum would have contributed positively to the workforce had he been chosen. Since his setback main into Kentucky, there’s not ample time remaining for preparation and conditioning for him to be in high type for the workforce obligatory outing in a couple of brief weeks. We’re clearly disenchanted, however at all times have his greatest curiosity at coronary heart and will likely be seeking to goal him for an thrilling fall competitors.”

Tamie Smith, who doesn’t have another horses in competition for the workforce for the Paris Olympics, completed her message by saying she will likely be cheering on Group USA from Rebecca Farm, which runs the identical weekend because the Olympic eventing, and inspiring them to convey dwelling the gold.

Tamie and the 17-year-old Mai Baum, who belongs to his former rider Alexandra Ahearn and her dad and mom Ellen Ahearn and Eric Markell, had been the alternates for the US workforce on the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Since then they’ve been ninth at Badminton Horse Trials and gained Kentucky, in addition to contributing to the US’s world workforce silver in 2022.

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