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McLain Ward wins


the $100,000 Hickstead FEI World Cup™Grand Prix


McLain Ward..............................33 David Marcus..............................34 Doug Henry ................................35 Elizabeth McMullen ...................37 OnTRA News .............................38 WEG 2014 ..................................38 Horse Listening...........................39 Angelstone ..................................39 Lynn Palm...................................40 WEG 2018 ..................................40 Russ Krachun..............................42 Meredith Manor ..........................43 An Underdog’s Story..................44 Fitness For Riders .......................45


Spruce Meadows.........................46 OEF at The Royal .......................47 People Make a Difference ..........47 The Amazing Kelpies!...........48-49 Royal Winter Fair Photos ...........50 Oktoberfest Equi-Cup.................51 Anne Gage Column ....................52 Dressage Canada Election ..........52 What’s Up Doc? .........................53 Equi-Bow....................................53 Classifieds, Directory Ads.....54-59 Real Estate ..................................60 OEF Awards ...............................62 Northern Dancer .........................62


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were probably two strides shorter than you would make any other day,” explained Ward. “Sometimes it got a lit- tle desperate with the turns and so it did for me, but I


but tonight the horses of both Katie Dinan and Kent Far- rington (both of Wellington, FL) were simply unable to gallop, turn and jump in the manner and speed which was required to be atop the leaderboard. “We were making turns tonight in the jump-off that


only with Harrie’s round in front of me but with what was coming behind me that I had to do something a bit extraordinary tonight. Sometimes it works in your favour and sometimes it all goes wrong. Tonight it was in my favour.” It is uncharacteristic to see refusals in a jump-off,


was able to observe the incredible turns and angles the pair executed, in hopes of duplicating and improving upon their time. Ward pushed Rothchild to an incredible pace, and admits luck was on their side at the Toronto skyline wall, where the bricks moved, but did not topple. “I felt my horse was ready to win, but I knew not


we had fantastic, super-fast horses and riders in the jump-off so I knew you must do something spectacular if you wanted to put them under pressure. So I went as fast as possible with really short turns and I ended up second. If you had to go first in the order with these rid- ers following you, I think second place is a very good result!” Ward followed Smolders in the second round, and


jump-off, having laid down the first clean round in the first round of competition. Said Smolders: “I had to go first in the jump-off but


when asked about the biggest challenge out there. “There were a lot of places to have four faults, but not one terrible spot. He got you softly in a few places.” Smolders had the disadvantage of going first in the


sixteen jumping efforts on course, just seven were able to advance to the jump-off designed by 1976 Olympic silver medalist, Michel Vaillancourt. “I thought it was a really smart course,” said Ward


aboard his firecracker of a mare, Regina Z. Of twenty-four horses to tackle the initial round of


renamed to honour the great horse Hickstead, following his passing in 2011. Hickstead carried Canadian Eric Lamaze to an individual gold medal, and Team silver in jumping at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Harrie Smolders of the Netherlands finished second


Toronto, ON – In a masterful display of horsemanship, America’s McLain Ward (Brewster, NY) and Rothchild blazed a path to victory November 6th in the Ricoh Coli- seum, taking top honours in the $100,000 Hickstead FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix presented by GroupBy for the fifth time in his career. “The Hickstead class” as it is now known, was


America’s McLain Ward and Rothchild charge over the GroupBy oxer to take the $100,000 Hickstead FEI World CupTM Grand Prix presented by GroupBy, Wednesday evening at the Royal Horse Show. Ward


also took the afternoon’s $15,000 McKee Family Inter- national Jumper Challenge aboard Wings. Photo credit: Ben Radvanyi


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