GOLD
GLORY
By Amber Heintzberger
U.S. Eventing at the 2015 Pan Am Games
The Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team is riding high after winning both team and individual gold medals at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Perhaps more impor- tantly, Phillip Dutton on Fernhill Fugitive, Lauren Kieffer on Mead- owbrooks Scarlett, Boyd Martin on Pancho Villa and Marilyn Little on RF Scandalous together qualified the United States to send a team to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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been in the dark a little bit the last couple of outings and I was proud to be a part of a winning team.” The whole event proved to be exciting for the spectators—from
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phase to phase and up until the very end, they did not know exactly which countries and individual competitors would come out on top.
Battling Dressage Phillip Dutton was the first of the U.S. team in the stadium riding Fern-
hill Fugitive for a score of 48.4. Later Lauren Kieffer on Marie Le Menes- trel and Kevin Kieffer’s Meadowbrooks Scarlett both tied this score. Brazilian Carlos Parra, riding Fiona and Andrew Edwards’ Caulcourt
Landline, took the early lead with 45.6 and held the top spot until Brit- ish-based Canadian rider Kathryn Robinson was the first to break into the thirties with 39.8 riding her own Let it Bee. Her lead didn’t last long, though, as Brazilian Ruy Fonseca was next in the arena and scored 38.9 riding Tom Bombadill Too. In her first U.S. team experience, Marilyn Little on RF Scandal-
ous scored 40.3 to bring the team into the lead. Canadian defending champion Jessica Phoenix on Donald and Francine Good’s Pavarotti
ABOVE: Happy U.S. eventers secured the team gold medal at the recent Pan Am Games in Toronto.
All photos by Amber Heintzberger
he 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 World Equestrian Games didn’t go as planned for the U.S. team, so their success in Toronto this year is a major boost for morale. Following the medal ceremony, Boyd Martin remarked, “I think America’s
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