Thursday March 20, 2003

Zada WEF Dressage Classic CDI***/Y Draws Strong Contenders For Pan Am And Championship Qualifiers

Open Classes, Open for Top Scores in Wellington

In addition to the CDI classes, the Zada Enterprises, LLC WEF Dressage Classic hosted 38 Open classes. The high score of the show went to Mary Collier of Bayshore, New York, who earned 77.917% aboard her Riverdance in Open Training Level Test 3. Riverdance is a five-year-old, 16.2-hand Dutch gelding by Hemingway.

Other highlights of the Open classes included Tina Konyot’s standout wins in the Prix St. Georges (67.917%) and Intermediaire I (68.5%) with the beautiful dapple gray Liberty, an eight-year-old, 17.3-hand Hanoverian stallion. Olympian Michelle Gibson ‘showcased’ her brilliant stallion World Of Dreams in the Intermediaire II class, his only performance at the show, taking the blue with 70.569%.