The occasion marked the 9-year-old Hanoverian gelding's Grand Prix debut and Pavicic’s first time in five years riding a Grand Prix test.

Naima wins with the lovely stallion while fellow Canadian Megan Shea earns a ticket to the Future Challenge finale aboard Gyllebo’s Vamos.

Canada's Pia Fortmuller places 2nd riding Frieda as 10 weeks of international and national dressage heads towards its April 4 finale.

In the inaugural Lövsta Future Challenge Intermediate II qualifier for developing grand prix horses, Pablo Gomez Molina took the coveted qualifying spot.

Canadian dressage rider Karen Pavicic of White Rock, BC, has announced that she has decided to switch allegiance and ride for Croatia.