America’s Kent Farrington (Wellington, FL) topped the field of 18 in the $50,000 Weston Canadian Open tonight at the Royal Horse Show, producing one of just five clean rounds of the night and taking home a tidy sum of $16,500 for their efforts.
Riding Voyeur, a peppy little gelding, the pair sped around the ring, rubbing more than one fence, but having luck on their side as all the rails stayed put. Many tonight were not nearly so lucky over Michel Vaillancourt’s difficult course which included three double combinations. First was a vertical to an oxer with a wide spread at the beginning of the course, then the triple-bar to a vertical almost immediately after, and a very tricky set of double verticals at the end of the course, heading toward the in-gate.
The top five finishers did so on clean rounds with very quick times. From there, however, the scores got higher and higher as rails flew from just about every jump on course tonight.