This year’s 2010 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI**** will be extra-special: Before and after the April 22-25 competition, the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington will host the official dressage and jumping test events for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG).

The Kentucky CCI**** itself will serve as the WEG eventing test event.

The dressage test event will be held April 20 (Grand Prix), April 21 (GP Special), and April 22 (GP Freestyle). The jumping test event will be held April 23 (warm-up), April 24 (Grand Prix), and April 25 (speed class).

The well-known mother-daughter dressage team of Betsy and Jessie Steiner will be handling commentary duties for the dressage and show-jumping phases of the Rolex Kentucky event.

Eventing enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the attempt by Britain’s Oliver Townend to become the second rider in history (after Britain’s Pippa Funnell in 2003) to win the $350,000 Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing, awarded to any rider who wins the Rolex Kentucky, Mitsubishi Motors Badminton, and Land Rover Burghley events in succession. Townend has won the first two legs.

For more information, visit the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event Web site at rk3de.org.