Quebec rider Alexanne Thibault and Cidanos Z were the only other pair to post a clean first round effort and advance to the jump-off.
Grand prix
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.
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.