Selena_OH_rolex.jpgOttawa, ON—Olympian Selena O’Hanlon of Elgin, ON, was the top Canadian rider at the 2009 edition of the CCI 4* Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, held April 23-26, at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, USA, the site of the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

O’Hanlon, 28, riding her 2008 Olympic mount Colombo, a 14-year-old Swedish Warmblood gelding, owned by Elaine and Michael Davies, performed an outstanding dressage test, scoring 48.2 for 13th place. The pair then navigated the Michael Etherington-Smith’s (GBR) cross country course where none of the obstacles proved to be a problem, and they crossed the finish line with no jumping faults, but 20 time faults, which put them in 23rd spot heading in to the show jumping round. The pair finished in 20th place overall after incurring four jumping faults for a final score of 72.2 overall.

“I was really pleased with my dressage test,” said O’Hanlon. “The cross country footing was awesome, and the organizers have done a lot of work preparing the track. The course was tricky, but I was very determined to go clean, although I am a bit disappointed with the 20 time penalties. A special thanks to David O’Connor  (the Canadian Eventing International Technical Advisor) for being a super coach.”

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