Canada’s largest dressage show set a record for entries as the Pan Am Games qualifying season ramps up in the Grand Prix and Small Tour.
Grand prix
Defending champions Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB win the Grand Prix on a day featuring a few surprises.
The French rider and her 17-year-old KWPN gelding were the only pair to touch 70% in the class, and the final combination up centreline.
Split Rock Sarasota set the scene for Chile’s Samuel Parot to secure 1st place with Buga Z and 2nd aboard Captain Z.
Saturday's feature class at Ottawa Summer Tournaments at Wesley Clover Parks was dominated by a pair of Ariel Grange-owned horses.
The Brazilian rider won the €300,000 feature class in the shadow of the iconic Eiffel Tower riding Like A Diamond van het Schaeck.
The Canadian took the $50,000 CSI2* class on Sunday at Kentucky Horse Park; the CSI3* $100,000 feature was won by Molly Ashe Cawley.
It was a victory on home soil in the Friends of the Meadows Grand Prix 1.50m on the final day of the Spruce Meadows Founders' Classic CSI3*.
Show jumping competition got underway at Wesley Clover Parks with the win coming aboard Dublin, owned by Millar Brooke Farm.
Large fields populated the grand prix division at the sunny Ocala venue, and personal best scores dominated.