Canadian dressage athletes snapped up top spots in all divisions this past weekend, June 5 to 8, at the CDI-W Cornerstone Spring Into Dressage. The official test event for the 2015 Pan American Games, was held at the Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park in Palgrave, ON.
Canadian Olympian David Marcus of Campbellville, ON, and his 2012 Olympic mount Chrevi’s Capital (Chrevi’s Cavallo x Weinberg), Devorah Kinzinger-Miculinic’s 14-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding, took first place winning the Grand Prix class with a score of 69.980%. Coming in close second was fellow Canadian Megan Lane of Loretto, ON and her horse Caravella, a Canadian-bred 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare (Contango x Riverman) with a final score of 69.900%. In addition, both Marcus and Lane have now met the Canadian selection criteria for the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games being held this summer in Normandy, FRA and are the first two Canadian dressage athletes to successfully fulfill the criteria. Riders needed to achieve four scores of 68% in the Grand Prix test in a CDI competition one of which must be achieved in either May or June.
“This Grand Prix test was very important for us as a successful score would help us to fulfill the final stage of the criteria for WEG,” said Marcus. “I am very happy with how Capital went, and I believe he deserved every point he got. I felt the test was very harmonious, and was highlighted by some of the best piaffes we have had in the ring.”