Headed to the final fence of the jump-off in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Washington (USA), Katie Dinan (USA) admitted she wasn’t sure how many strides she was working on. What she did know, was that pulling was not the answer.
“A good distance showed up right away jumping in to the last line, and I kept on moving, and there was a lot of noise from the crowd. I saw my distance to the last jump, and I thought, ‘This is a lot more forward than I thought this line was supposed to be,'” Dinan described. “I thought if I started pulling, it was definitely not the right thing to do. [My horse] just sprouted wings, and it was a good ending.”
Last to go in a seven-horse jump-off, Dinan and her mount of five years, Brego R’n B claimed the first World Cup victory of their partnership, edging ahead of Rene Dittmer (GER) and Corsica X at the final three obstacles of Bernardo Costa Cabral’s (POR) short course.