Helen Bouscaren and Ben. Photo by Sally Spickard.
Put another notch in the calendar — Rebecca Farm is passing by entirely too quickly! Today is the second to last day of competition, and I think we’re all a little sad to see the end coming up, as tired as we may be!
We wrapped up several divisions today while the upper levels tackled cross country. I was able to get around and check out some of the Prelim as well as the Training Three Day action today, so I’ll give you a quick rundown of the winners and leaders from the day.
Starting with the Intermediate, Dani Sussman and Kaptain America held their lead after laying down a double clear cross country. This pair has seamlessly stepped back up to the level after spending 2014 at Prelim and remain on their dressage score of 25.0 to have 7.5 penalties in hand in tomorrow’s show jumping.
I must also give a shout out to second placed Ashley Loucks and Dominic Q, who jumped from ninth to second with another double clear. Just three pairs made the time in this division, so naturally they were rewarded with moves up the board.
We do have one MR on the score sheet from this division, Madison Hogan and Happenstance. From what I have been told, both are ok tonight — they fell in the main water complex on course.
Moving onto the Prelim divisions, I’ll list out the leaders for you here. The Prelim generally seems to have ridden well, and the Junior and Young Rider entrants deserve a round of applause as everyone in that division completed!
Here are your Prelim leaders heading into tomorrow’s show jumping:
Jr/YR: Anne-Sophie Levesque and Eskapade (27.8)
Open A: Sara Mittleider and Harry Houdini (26.6)
Open B: Sarah Haff and Defensive Player (31.1)
The Training Three Day divisions show jumped today, most of which I was able to see. Side note, it’s really nice that most everything is within just a couple minutes’ walk — it makes us media folk quite happy!
The T3D show jumping was quite tricky, and we saw some fresh horses who looked as if they could go out and run another long format event right then and there. Many of these riders are young, and I was really pleased to see some great horsemanship and team spirit among this group.
Show jumping was definitely influential, so we did see some last minute shuffles on the board. Here are your Training Three Day winners:
A: India McEvoy and Eloise (27.2)
B: Sophie Tice and Mojo (34.5)
C: Karen Bristing and Moonlights Ranger (37.1)
Also wrapping up today were the Novice Three Day and Novice divisions. We’ve got several winners to announce here, so let’s get to it
N3D A: Jordan Good and Pikture This (30.9)
N3D B: Bonner Carpenter and Get Busy (22.3)
Junior A: Genevieve Kirsch and Fleeceworks Cinco (25.8)
Junior B: Lilly Linder and Pele (23.3)
Senior A: Kate Chester and Orca (25.3)
Senior B: Julie Simard and Azarius (28.8)
Senior C: Lauren Boriotti and Slingshot (28.0)
Senior D: Leigh Mesher and Finally DG (28.0)
Senior E: Sara Mittleider and La Paz (23.0)
We wrap up Rebecca Farm tomorrow beginning with the Final Horse Inspection for the FEI divisions at 8 a.m., followed by show jumping for Training through CCI3*. Go Eventing!
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