After the four riders ahead of her pulled a rail, Jennie entered the arena in the lead with one rail to spare at The Fork CIC3*. But, she didn’t need them and jumped a crystal clean ride aboard Nina Gardner’s Cambalda. Jennie showed her competitive drive and Cambalda’s talent with a winning performance in her first event back after breaking her collar bone earlier this spring. Jennie won with Ping last year at The Fork intermediate. Steph Rhodes-Bosch moved up to second with a doble-clear show jumping.
CIC3* Final Results:
1. Jennie Brannigan and Cambalda +0 45.9
2. Steph Rhodes-Bosch and Port Authority +0 49.9
3. Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen +4 51.3
4. Sinead Halpin and Manoir De Carneville +4 51.9
5. Karen O’Connor and Mandiba +4 53.1
–The CIC3* was definitely a jumping competition as the only two horses to finish on their dressage score finished in the top two places. Steph moved up 8 total places and 4 places today. Michael Pollard and Icarus moved up 21 places on the weekend adding just 4 show jumping penalties to their dressage score.
–The show jumping for the CIC3* and advanced has quite a few turns with two big rollback turns to airy verticals.
–There were 11 double-clears in the CIC3* show jumping, one more than the cross-country.
–A two-stride off of a bending line is causing quite a few rails and the first jump caused two stops in the CIC3*. Martha McDowell fell from Gaelic Marrigage at an in-and-out.
–Mandiba had a rail, but I don’t think I have ever seen him jump better than he did this weekend. I mentioned this at Red Hills, but don’t look now, I think he’s really starting to step up and run like a veteran horse. That’s good news for Karen as they head to Badminton in a few days.
–Jessica Phoenix had a great weekend, finishing two horses in the top 10 of the CIC3* and giving Canada a total of 3 horses in the top 10 and 4 in the top 11.
We’ll have much more from The Fork show jumping after the conclusion of the advanced. The coats are coming off as the sun starts to shine here in Norwood. Go eventing.
