This winning moment from CSI Ommen’s Saturday-night puissance (jumping an increasingly tall wall of hollow blocks) is impressive to me for two reasons. The most obvious is the incredible height this horse is successfully clearing. Just as amazing to this American is the huge turnout of spectators present in both the foreground and background—far beyond what is seen at most US events.

[…] night at CSI Ommen was action-packed; before the Puissance, equestrian artist Laury Tisseur demonstrated feats of horsemanship including what I might best […]