United States Eventing Association

Karen O’Connor and Joan Goswell’s Irish Thoroughbred Gelding, Mandiba, danced into the lead at the 2010 Rolex Kentucky CCI4*. The pair scored a 43.7 which pushed morning leaders, Becky Holder and Courageous Comet, into second. Phillip Dutton and The Foreman round out the top three with a 47.2. Rolex first-timer Lauren Kieffer shares her experience thus far and what it has been like reaching the pinnacle of the sport with Snooze Alarm, a 13-year-old Anglo Arabian gelding she's had since she started with him at Beginner Novice when she was 13.