The “Continental/Skyliner” Tournament kicked off at Spruce Meadows today with an exciting feature competition, the 1.45 metre Scotiabank Cup.  There were 31 entries hoping to master the Leopoldo Palacios (VEN) designed course.

Palacios is not known for going easy on riders and today was no different as he came at them with 14 jumping efforts and a time allowed of 66 seconds.  It was the time allowed that caught many horse/rider pairs, with five entries losing their clear rounds to the clock.

There were six that solved the difficult course to move onto the jump-off round.  With only the best returning it would be a battle of speed and agility for first place. 

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