Luck wasn’t on the Americans’ side yesterday, on the final day of eventing competition at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

First, Becky Holder withdrew Courageous Comet after the third horse inspection, prior to the show-jumping phase. The fourteen-year-old Thoroughbred gelding, it turned out, had thrown a front shoe early on in his cross-country run on October 2 and had “overcompensated” with the other leg, according to the official statement. As I write this, officials haven’t gotten back to me, so I’m still waiting to find out about the extent of Courageous Comet’s injury. Diagnostic procedures were to have been carried out yesterday at the on-site clinic at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, site of the Games.

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