Four disciplines. Dozens of names. One long exhale as Aachen finally starts feeling real. Annie and D sit down with every world championship team announcement now in hand, and the dressage squad alone gives them plenty to chew on.

A fifty-year gap between the youngest and oldest riders on one team? That's not a typo, that's just where this sport is right now. Ashley Holzer's four-decade arc from Seoul to Aachen sits next to Christian Simonson's early-twenties breakout, and somehow it all has to gel into a team.

Then there's the strength-in-depth problem nobody but Germany gets to have: an Olympic champion sitting as second reserve. Annie and D can't decide whether to be impressed or worried for everyone else.

And with Rebecca Farm kicking off, the languishing in-between period officially ends this weekend.

Highlights

• Dutta Corp. US Dressage Team breakdown
• Fifty years, four riders, one team
• Germany's ridiculous reserve list
• Eventing, jumping, para, driving and vaulting round-up
• Mill Street Under 25s preview
• Rebecca Farm predictions kick off