British rider puts in only clears in time on Kentucky cross-country: ‘I tried to save a quarter of a second here and there’

Harry Meade and Et Hop Du Matz at Kentucky 2025.

Harry Meade put in the only two clear rounds inside the time over the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event cross-country course today. The British rider’s brilliant performances mean he has moved up from 17th after dressage to third on Mandy Gray and his own Et Hop Du Matz and from 18th to fourth with Amanda Gould’s Grafennacht.

After his second ride, Harry shared one of the tactics he used to put in such fast rounds: “I thought there was a...