Canadian Eventing athletes closed out the international competition season in North America over the weekend competing on two coasts at the CCI Galway Downs International Three Day Event in Temecula, CA, USA and the CCI 1* Virginia Three Day Event held in Lexington ,VA, USA.
In California, Kiyomi Foster of Surrey, BC; Canada’s only CCI3* entry in the division at Galway Downs, placed in the top ten riding Tasman Sea, her own 16-year-old New Zealand Thoroughbred gelding. The pair led off their first CCI 3* competition in 14th place on a dressage score of 63.7 penalties before tackling Ian Stark`s (GBR) cross country course. Foster and Tasman Sea faced tough questions on course earning 20 jump and 7.2 time penalties ending day two on 90.9 penalties. Sunday’s show jumping round proved to be difficult with the pair taking down four rails for 16 faults and 3 time penalties, finishing on a final score of 109.9 which was good for ninth place.
“Galway was great! It was such an incredible experience for me; it was definitely the biggest and hardest course I have ever done! Tasman Sea was pretty excited when we got to Galway, he has competed there many times before and knew that there was big exciting stuff happening, commented Foster.