Calgary, AB, Canada – July 12, 2014 – Spruce Meadows held its $83,000 Investors Group Cup 1.50m competition on Saturday afternoon with another win for USA’s McLain Ward at the ‘Pan American’ Tournament CSI 5*. Ward took the top two places, winning aboard Zander and finishing second with HH Carlos Z. The rider has had a fantastic tournament to conclude the summer at Spruce Meadows and looks forward to competing Rothchild in Sunday’s final $400,000 Pan American Cup presented by Rolex.

International course designer Uliano Vezzani (ITA) has set some difficult tracks in the fifth week of competition at Spruce Meadows’ Summer Series. His courses have put all of the horses and riders to the test, but Ward and his talented mounts have been nearly unstoppable. After winning Friday’s $33,500 Ashcor Technologies Cup 1.55m, Double H Farm’s HH Carlos Z jumped to the second place finish in Saturday’s Investors Group Cup. Ward and Grant Road Partners LLC’s Zander jumped the only double clear to take victory.

Vezzani got four clear rounds out of 47 that competed to advance to the jump-off. For most of the competition, it looked like Ward might be the only rider to qualify for the short course with clear rounds aboard both of his two mounts, but two more advanced in the end. Ward was first to go in the jump-off with the ten-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding, Zander (Canots x Saygon), clearing the track in 37.06 seconds. He followed shortly after with HH Carlos Z to finish with four faults in 38.62 seconds.

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