Canadians at Galway Downs Three-Day Event

you're listening to an article from horse sport.com. canadians at galway downs three-day event. ottawa, on—british columbia natives kerry johnston, of summerland, and sabrina levere of burnaby, finished in the top ten in the cci 2*division, while jennifer miller of hudson, qc, and now based in cave creek, az, won cci 1* division at the 10th annual galway downs three day event, held october 30 to november 2, in temecula, ca. johnston was the top canadian rider with warrick, her 10-year-old canadian warmblood stallion. sitting in 11th place after dressage, in the field of 17 starters, with a score of 57.5, johnston had a fault-free ride performances in both cross-country show jumping to finish on her dressage score, which was good for second place overall barely a point out of first place. “warrick was great. i was happy with his dressage score,” remarked johnston. “ian stark always designs a good, challenging cross-country course, and we did all the direct routes. i would like to thank my long-time coach, therese washtock.”. advertisement scroll to continue with content levere, with hypona nicodemus, gerda glaser’s seven-year-old rheinlander gelding, was standing in ninth place, after dressage, on a score of 56.9. the pair recorded a fault-free ride on cross-country and had two rails in the show jumping round, for eight faults, to finish with a score of 64.9, which was good for eighth place overall. “hypona nicodemus is still a young horse,” noted levere. “he did not have a bad fence on cross-country. i hope we will move on to bigger and better things.”. american anna collier and uppercrust d won the cci 2* division with a score of 56.2. in the cci* classic format division, miller and her eight-year-old oldenburg gelding, jeepers, won by finishing on their dressage score of 48.9. miller a full-time veterinarian recently returned from the 2008 olympic games having served the canadian dressage team. young rider marina parapini of dewdney, bc, and her 10-year-old canadian thoroughbred mare femme fatale completed their first three-day event in 13th place on a score of 92.6. “my horse was exceptional, and he had a lot of fun,” said miller of her homebred horse jeepers. “he is very enthusiastic about his job, and i am fortunate to have such a nice horse.”. competing in the cci 1* olympic format division was 2004 olympian, hawley bennett, of langley, bc, who finished in 19th place riding susan g. church’s canadian spy, a nine-year-old canadian thoroughbred gelding. american robyn fisher won the cci* without steeplechase division with lady calido on a score of 43.9.