Selena O’Hanlon, Olympic and Pan American Team member from Kingston, ON, rode into the top ten at the prestigious 2014 CCI 4* Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event presented by Land Rover held April 23-27 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

Aboard John and Judy Rumble’s Foxwood High the, 11-year-old Canadian Sport Horse gelding, [Rio Bronco W – Evita II] O’Hanlon earned 56.8 penalties in the dressage test landing in 27th place. But it was the pair’s answers to the hard questions asked by Derek di Grazia’s 4* cross country course on Saturday that added only 1.6 time penalties to their score and moved them up the ranks into 14th place. O’Hanlon and Foxwood High’s clear round over Richard Jefferey’s show jumping course which saw a single time fault added to their score which moved them up into 10th place on a final score of 59.4, earning them one of the highly coveted top ten spots.

O’Hanlon’s second mount, Bellaney Rock, a 15-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding O’Hanlon co-owns with Eventing Canada, stood in 28th place after dressage on a score of 57.0 penalties. The pair had an unfortunate runout at the ‘Head of the Lake’ during cross-country resulting in jump and time penalties accumulating a score of 95.8. O’Hanlon and Bellaney Rock took two rails for eight penalties in their show jumping round for a final score of 103.8 to finish 30th overall.

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