WEG Social Media Corral: No One Actually Rode Horses Today

Unless you count vaulting, but they spend way more time leaping about. We’ll bring you the best of social media daily!

Top photo: normandie2014 on Instagram

A candidate for the most-epic-face-of-the-WEG award.

I like that the vaulting longeurs get medals at #WEG2014. Also, I refuse to call them “lungers.”

— Leslie P (@LeslieInLex) September 5, 2014

So for any of you readers out there who love groundwork but don’t ride, know that there is legitimately a WEG discipline in which you can 100% dominate.

“@myfei_home: Relax, take it easy… it’s Friday! #WEG2014 #JEM2014 Day off for #Jumping athletes! (c) FEI/Liz Gregg pic.twitter.com/V5i24WB96u”

— Erik (@ELmosquito72) September 5, 2014

Show jumpers, at last demonstrating that they have a little bit of personality in the social media game.

Four perfect horses driven masterfully…if this isn’t beauty I don’t know what is.

How they can handle all of this in the one-handed part of the test is beyond me…

Have tried to take a pic but it didn’t really work but we have a BAT in the Vaulting hall at #weg2014! @heliumbear pic.twitter.com/qJw1ukPOA8

— John Kyle (@JohnKyleSpeaks) September 5, 2014

At the height those vaulters are flying, this is a serious safety consideration and I hope the FEI has it under control.

Vaulters clearly see the world a little differently from the rest of us.

Sorry but we’ve got to go back to Chester for a minute again here. Also, a prerequisite for grooming for Chester must be that you don’t get nauseous sitting backwards like that.

“@SElliott29: The first week of #WEG2014 by the numbers. Wow! @normandie2014 @myfei_home pic.twitter.com/9gPNV0wwZI” @bentopping77

— Anna-Lisa Topping (@AnnaLisaTopping) September 5, 2014

Staggering numbers…except oddly they seem to glaze over the entire cluster that was eventing.