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

Tamie Smith has dominated herself and Mai Baum out of rivalry for the United States eventing crew on the Paris Olympics this summer season.

Remaining yr’s Kentucky 3-Day Match winner pulled clear of his handler and “tweaked himself” prior to Kentucky this yr and Tamie says there may be not sufficient time to arrange him prior to the required US crew trip at Solid View (21-23 June).

“Main into a miles expected Olympic crew variety subsequent week and after deliberating with our crew and Mai Baum’s house owners, we’ve got made up our minds to withdraw him from crew attention,” stated Tamie closing week.

“This used to be a hard determination as a result of we’ve got felt Mai Baum would have contributed definitely to the crew had he been decided on. Since his setback main into Kentucky, there isn’t ok time ultimate for preparation and conditioning for him to be in most sensible shape for the crew necessary trip in a couple of brief weeks. We are patently disenchanted, however at all times have his highest hobby at middle and shall be having a look to attempt him for a thrilling fall festival.”

Tamie Smith, who does now not have some other horses in rivalry for the crew for the Paris Olympics, completed her message via pronouncing she shall be cheering on Workforce USA from Rebecca Farm, which runs the similar weekend because the Olympic eventing, and inspiring them to deliver house the gold.

Tamie and the 17-year-old Mai Baum, who belongs to his former rider Alexandra Ahearn and her oldsters Ellen Ahearn and Eric Markell, had been the alternates for the United States crew on the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Since then they’ve been 9th at Badminton Horse Trials and received Kentucky, in addition to contributing to the United States’s global crew silver in 2022.

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