[Extra-credit points for anyone who can name the movie!]

Spent part of this afternoon testing out our new little video camera, at the Kentucky Cup vaulting event. This international event (CVI*/**) features competitors from eight nations and is being contested in the (beautiful!) new indoor arena here at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. This is also the second of the test events for next year’s World Equestrian Games. (Unfortunately, we didn’t have our new-fangled video capability for last month’s reining test event.)

So, if you’re not familiar with vaulting and would like to see what it’s like, here is a video clip of the final freestyle performances for one of the competitors in the CVI* Individiual Women’s Competition. This young woman received the highest score in this round of all the ones I watched. Her three-day total put her in second place overall as of the end of her performance (there was still a third of the class to go when I had to leave, though).