The Virginia Celebrity Freestyle: A Celebration of Music and Movement - page 3

Prior to the featured FEI classes in the evening, the show hosts a Calcutta Auction. With a professional auctioneer, each FEI horse and rider are auctioned off to the audience. Whichever horse and rider have the highest score of the evening, the person who won the bid on that team gets 40% of all the money bid. This year's winner was Danish International Dressage rider Lars Petersen, who bid $400 on Alison Head and Calhambeque. Alison's high score of the evening, 69.01% earned Lars $1,650. Lars commented that the atmosphere of the show was great, the footing was good, and that he'd like to ride an exhibition next year.