Four Canadians land in the top 10 of Sunday's feature class in Thermal, California, led by 4th-place Beth Underhill and Count Me In.
Show Jumping
The Irishman took the $137,000 Grand Prix CSI3* with Great-Tikila J; top Canadian was Eric Lamaze with Chacco Kid in 4th spot.
The $310,000 purchase won just the second time out of the gate in the $10,000 Developing Jumper Series Five-Year-Old Classic at WEF 10.
Lamaze is back in Florida and got right down to business, winning the $37,000 Douglas Elliman 1.45m CSI3* over Michel Vaillancourt's course.
While details are still being ironed out in terms of protocols, spectators, etc, the majors at Aachen, Spruce Meadows and Geneva are a go.
Canadian Sean Jobin places 6th in the class with Darius and also placed 5th in the Futures Prix riding Coquelicot VH Heuvelland Z.
The mare VDL High Five fetched half a million dollars from an undisclosed buyer as a dozen promising athletes went under the hammer.
The American rode the mare Lyranta Van’t Gebroekt to victory over a track designed by Peter Grant of Calgary.
Kent Farrington and Creedance prove uncatchable in the $73,000 CaptiveOne Advisors Classic CSI5*; Tiffany Foster top Canadian in 6th.
Ifko and longtime partner 'Monty' were the best of 12 in the jumpoff; fellow Canuck Susan Horn and Chacca Keeps II place 4th.