DECEMBER 2010 THE RIDER / 33


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Brianne Goutal Takes the $100,000 FEI World Cup Grand Prix


Toronto, Ontario – A fresh, young competitor stood the International show jumping division on its head, winning a five-way, five nation jump-off, besting top riders from Canada, America, Ireland, The Nether- lands and Great Britain to claim the $100,000 FEI World Cup Grand Prix at the 88th Royal Horse Show.


kept her score from it’s usual height.


“Ashley had a very good start to her test – very solid with very high scores. Unfortunately, when she came to the canter work, her old nemesis, particularly the flying changes, came to bite her and the overall result, although she still won the class, was not as stellar as she could have been with a more mistake-free ride.”


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Brianne Goutal of New York, NY, bested a top international field to win the $100,000 FEI World Cup Grand Prix at The Royal Horse Show this evening with her horse Ballade Van Het Indihoff. Here, they clear obstacle 11-B, part of the triple-combination which became the undoing of so many of her competitors.Photo © Michelle C. Dunn


Brianne Goutal, 22, of New York, NY, led a field of 25 starters including a former World Champi- on, an Olympic Gold Medalist and all the members of Teams Millar and Whitaker, the “First Families” of show jumping at The Royal this year. Goutal, a senior studying English at Brown University, typically attends school four days a week, and competes on the weekends. Tonight she was riding Ballade Van Het Indihoff, a nine year-old mare owned by Remarkable Farms LLP.


At first glance, the course of 16 jumping efforts designed by Anthony D’Ambrosio of Red Hook, NY, looked innocuous enough, but it quickly became apparent that one key area of the course would be the deciding factor for nearly every rider this evening. A trio of obstacles set quite close together and lined up along the west wall of the ring proved to be the undo- ing of 16 of the 25 who started.


“My mare is young, so I was a little nervous coming in to the class, but still had good expecta- tions,” said Goutal. “I had no expectations of a win though!”


Goutal had the envious position of riding last in the jump-off, over a shortened course requiring sharp inside turns combined with stretches of flat-out gallop. Goutal’s winning time of 36.66 seconds was more than a full second faster than her closest rival, Harrie Smol- ders of the Netherlands. Smolders finished on 37.70 seconds with his ten year-old mare Regina Z. Third went to Britain’s youngest Whitaker here this week, Robert, who also won this afternoon’s $15,000 McKee Family International Jumper Challenge – showing he’s doing his part in the battle of the “Royal Families” of show jumping this week.


The matinee horse show also included the Dres- sage CDI3* FEI Grand Prix presented by Dominion Regalia, which was won by the defending Champion, Ashley Holzer with Pop Art. Tonight’s President of the Ground Jury, Axel Steiner, explained that although Holzer won the class this afternoon, a few mistakes


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