Toronto, Ontario – Ian Millar of Perth, ON, was victorious in Friday’s $50,000 Weston Canadian Open to score his fourth win of The Royal Horse Show, running November 2-11 as part of The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, ON.

A total of 23 international show jumping competitors attempted to be the fastest over the track set by course designer Michel Vaillancourt, but none were as quick as Millar who, at 60, is proving that age is not a factor in the Olympic sport of show jumping. Millar had already won the $100,000 Canadian Show Jumping Championship presented by Greenhawk, the $70,000 Kubota Cup Grand Prix, and the $100,000 CN World Cup Grand Prix at this year’s Royal Horse Show before successfully defending his title in the $50,000 Weston Canadian Open.

In a format where the fastest round wins, Millar was jumping out of 13th position in the starting order. Superstitions were not a factor as the eight-time Olympian guided Redefin, a nine-year-old gelding owned by Susan Grange of Cheltenham, ON, to a clear round in a time of 62.92 seconds to move into the lead. None who followed were able to improve on Millar’s time with the closest challenge coming from his 2007 Pan Am Silver Medal teammate, Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON. Riding Narcotique de Muze, Lamaze was clear but his time of 63.34 seconds was off the pace set by Millar.

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