Ottawa, Ontario—Karl Slezak of Tottenham, ON, and Don J. Good’s 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding, Charley Farley, topped the Canadian entries in the advanced CIC 3* division at the Richland Park Horse Trials in Richland, MI, held August 20–23, 2009.
Posting a dressage score of 54.8, adding only 4.8 time penalties over Ian Stark’s cross-country course, and dropping one rail, for four faults, in the jumping test, Slezak, 27, and Charley Farley finished with 63.6 penalty points, earning them an eighth place finish.
Close behind Slezak was Waylon Roberts, 20, of Port Perry, ON, and his own Myrddin’s Sebastian, a nine-year-old Canadian Sport Horse gelding, in 10th place. Roberts, who is in England to compete in the CCI 3* Blenheim Three Day Event on September 10–13, added 5.2 cross country time penalties to his dressage score of 67.2 to finish with 72.4 penalties overall. Waylon’s father Ian Roberts, also of Port Perry, ON, rode Kelly Plitz and Tracey Newman’s 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse, Napalm, to an 18th place finish. Rounding out the top 20 was Robert Holman of Hawkestone, ON, and Catmantoo, Nancie J. Evans’ 14-year-old American Thoroughbred gelding.