the Junior freestyle went to Monica Houweling, 18, Delta, British Columbia, riding her 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding Stentano by Houston, out of Modora, to a score of 67.70. Houweling designed her freestyle using the music of Slumdog Millionaire. The pair also took bronze in the individual Junior competition with a score of 66.605. Saturday’s freestyle competition was delayed by
heavy rain and lightening in the late afternoon causing a power outage with the Junior division interrupted by a three hour break and the Young Riders slated to follow. The competition finally resumed using a generator to power the announcing system to play the music for the freestyles. During the press conference following the freestyle, International dressage judge Linda Zang complimented the winning riders on dealing with the delays, noting the added stress put on the organizers and girls left to compete.
EVENTING The eventers took over center stage in mid-week with
dressage on Thursday and Friday mornings, one division each day, and the David O’Connor-designed cross-country course on Saturday morning. With the threat of rain in the afternoon, the organizers decreased the time between the start of each horse and rider team on cross-country and everyone finished rain-free before noon. They capped the final day of NAJYRC competition with their stadium rounds and awards ceremonies on Sunday. When the dust settled the gold medal in the Young
Rider CCI 2* division went to Devon Brown, 19, of Alpharetta, GA, and the 11-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Dynamic Image by Enniskeane Prince, out of Greystead Image, bred by Caroline Thornton and owned by Donna Miller. Brown and Dynamic Image led from start to end and finished on their dressage
score of 50.5 after making short work of the stadium course. “It’s unreal,” Brown said after her ride. “I came here just hoping for a good run in all three phases and to give him a good, confident run. I was a little worried because he hadn’t done much all spring. It was just amazing. He just went above and beyond and just tried his heart out.” Jacob Fletcher and the 14-year-old Australian
Warmblood Falcon Splash by Falcon Jigsaw, out of Tia, bred by Pip and John Cooper, moved up from ninth after dressage and seventh after cross-country to finish second with double clear rounds on cross-country and in stadium. They finished on their dressage score of 57.2.
Jacob Fletcher and Falcon Splash, Young Rider CCI 2* individual silver medalists. Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography
The 17-year-old Fletcher who is from North Little Rock, AR, says he didn’t foresee the leap up the scoreboard to the silver-medal position, “My goal was to make time on cross-country and have clean show jumping. To go from ninth to second...I don’t think anyone can foresee that in such a big competition.” Winners in the Junior CCI 1* division were 15-year-old
Alyssa Phillips from Ft. Worth, TX, and her 19-year-old Thoroughbred gelding Sundance Bay, by Spotter Bay, out of Suzy Sundance. The pair stood second after dressage and held that spot with a clear jumping round over cross country adding only 1.2 time penalties to make their score 52.7. On Sunday they jumped a double clear round to put pressure on the leaders Sable Giesler and Evil Munchkin who dropped a rail handing first place to Phillips and Sundance Bay. “It’s so surreal right now,” said Phillips after stadium.
Devon Brown and Dynamic Image, Young Rider CCI 2* individual gold medalists. Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography
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“The course rode really nicely and the striding was good for my horse. I was worried about a couple fences, because I thought he might be tired from cross-country and because of his age, but he pulled it off really well. I had no idea I would come close to [winning the Gold],”
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