The team to beat in the Desert Circuit VII $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix was Chris Pratt and Concorde, marking another 2016 Desert Circuit victory for the Lake View Terrace, California, equestrian.
Week VII was in full swing on Friday afternoon at HITS Desert Circuit in Thermal, California as thirty-six elite equestrians competed for the top prize in the . Chris Pratt riding Concorde, owned by the Epic Group LLC, took home the victory adding to Pratt’s other Desert Circuit Grand Prix wins including Week III’s $350,000 HITS Thermal Grand Prix and the $50,000 Brook Ledge Welcome Stake that same week.
Course designer, Danny Foster of Ontario, Canada, set a demanding 17-effort 1.50 meter first-round course that included a technically difficult broken line involving a triple and double combination. Only four would manage to jump the first round fault-free to advance to the jump-off.