OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 THE RIDER /31 2017 Dutta Corp./ Fair Hill International Three-Day Event


Coleman and Smith earn Dutta Corp./USEF CCI*** and CCI** Eventing National Championship titles


Fair Hill, MD - October 15, 2017 - The show jumping phase proved influential for CCI*** competitors Sunday at The 2017 Dutta Corp. Fair Hill


ented partner. Aurelio Qunzanos


International


Three-Day Event with the leaderboard shuffling to re- veal Canada’s Selena O’Hanlon and Foxwood High as the winning pair and William Coleman and Tight Lines as The Dutta Corp./USEF CCI*** Event- ing National Champions. Meanwhile, Tamra Smith and Sunsprite Syrius re- mained unaffected by the challenging show jumping phase to close out a start to finish win of the CCI** di- vision.


It was a rollercoaster


weekend for Selena O’Han- lon as she bounced from


and Jorge Eduardo Mtz. Castrejon’s Cecelia won The Welcome Here Farm Trophy as the highest placed American Thoroughbred mare. Tamra Smith earned The Alexander MacKay Smith Trophy as the highest placed CCI*** competitor who has not yet competed in a CCI****. Jordan and Bar- bara Linstedt’s tenth-placed Revitavet Capato won the Best Presentation Award, and Frank McEntee’s Paddy The Caddy was the highest placed American Thorough- bred.


Tamra Smith’s cross Selena O'Hanlon and Foxwood High (c) Shannon Brinkman


jumping to finish on a score of 44.0. “I’m super excited for


goal and I’m glad it all worked out in the end any- way.”


National Eventing Champi- ons after a faultless show jump round left them on their dressage score (46.3) as the highest placed Amer- ican pair. “He was magic yes-


terday on the cross country. I was thrilled with how he ran. He made it feel like it was well within his capabil- ities, and today he just tried his heart out.” Coleman said of The Conair Syndicate’s 10-year-old Thoroughbred. “I think the horse’s biggest attribute is that he just gives 100 percent all the time. He’s not the simplest, but he really tried. As long as you can harness that the right way, you can do some good things. We’ll just try to re- produce it now over and over again.” A clear round cata-


pulted Boyd Martin and Christine Turner’s Tsetser- leg to third place in the CCI*** for


the Dutta


Boyd Martin and Christine Turner's Tsetserleg (c) Shannon Brinkman


first to second and back on top again with Foxwood High, a 14-year-old Cana- dian Sport Horse owned by John and Judy Rumble. Ul- timately, the CCI*** win and a $15,000 prize was hers for the taking after adding three deliberate time penalties in Sunday’s show


this horse at this level. It was a personal best all the way through I couldn’t have asked for any more of him,” she said. “Today I got a little worried. He started show jumping by braille which leads to rails usually, so I took the time to have a clear round because that was my


O’Hanlon also re-


ceived The Linda Moore Trophy as the highest placed foreign entry as well as The Beale Wright Morris Me- morial Trophy as the leading lady in the CCI***. William Coleman and


Tight Lines were crowned Dutta Corp./USEF CCI***


Corp./USEF CCI*** Re- serve Champion title. A score of 46.1 in the dressage and 1.2 time penalties on cross country gave them a final result of 47.3. “He’s a newer horse


for me. He just doesn’t wow you at home, but when you get to a competition this horse all of the sudden grows to about 17.2, and he jumps as high as you wanna jump and and moves like Totilas, and we saw that this weekend at Fair Hill,” Mar- tin commented on his tal-


country trip from California proved successful Sunday as she completed a wire-to- wire win of The Dutta Corp./USEF CCI** Event- ing National Championship with Sunsprite Warm- bloods’ Sunsprite Syrius. The 9-year-old Trakehner ends the weekend on his dressage score of 40.9. “I’m thrilled. He was


perfect in every phase, and I couldn’t have asked him to be better. He show jumped today like a million bucks,” Smith said proudly. For Smith, a win like


this means all the more for the horse’s owners, Pamela Duffy and Donald Trotter of Sunsprite Warmbloods. “The owners have a fairly small, medium breeding farm in southern California, and Pam [Duffy] is very diligent about breeding the horses and what horses she acquires for the sport. I’m just really happy for them,” she explained. “It’s been kind of a long road to get here, so I’m thrilled for them.”


William Coleman and


Off The Record moved nim- bly around Sally Ike’s wind- ing show jumping track to finish in second place. The Off The Record Syndicate’s 8-year-old Irish Sport Horse avoided jump penalties throughout the weekend for a final result of 49.8. “Anytime you finish a


three-day event on your dressage score I think it’s a major


accomplishment,”


Coleman said proudly. “This horse has done it twice this year, which I’m really proud of. I there’s some things we’ll try to im- prove on over the winter.


William Coleman and Tight Lines (c) Shannon Brinkman


He’s been consistent this year, and that’s something we can hang our hat on.” Matthew Flynn and


Get Lucky, a 9-year-old Dutch Warmblood owned by Flynn SportHorses, steadily climbed the leader- board through all three phases, ending the competi- tion in third. Only 0.4 cross country time penalties marred their finishing result of 50.4. Get Lucky was also awarded the Best Presenta- tion Award. “I was really happy


with him in all three phases. I was disappointed to be one second over [the time on cross country], but such is life. For him, I’m thrilled. It’s his second two-star, and he’s been third here before, so it was nice to repeat it,” he said. The John H. Fritz


Trophy was awarded to Sophia Click as the highest placed Young Rider in the CCI** division. Nina and Tim Gardner’s FE Lifestyle earned the USEF National Young Horse Championship title for 6- and 7-year-old horses. The Small But Mighty Award was given to


Colleen Rutledge’s Uno for being the smallest equine to compete the CCI**. Jennie Brannigan earned the Judy E. Thayer Memorial Award as the highest placed rider who currently resides in Chester County, PA. Lind- say Beer was the leading foreign rider and earned The Palmaccio Trophy. Nita Snfilippo’s Alarmabull was given The Mid-Atlantic Horse Rescue Trophy as the highest placed American Thoroughbred. The Dutta Corp. Fair


Hill International three-day event is currently awaiting approval by the Federation Equestre


Internationale


(FEI), as the new CCI**** event to join the Kentucky Three-Day Event as the only two CCI**** events in the Western Hemisphere and just the seventh CCI**** on the FEI global calendar. For further informa-


tion on The Dutta Corp Fair Hill International, please call 410-398-2111 or visit www.fairhillinternational.co m.


O’Hanlon Claims CCI*** Victory at The


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