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WEEK 6 February 17-21, 2016 EDITOR: JENNIFER WOOD McLain Ward and Rothchild Race Hunters Prepare for WCHR Week to Victory in $380,000 Fidelity at WEF 5 Investments® Grand Prix CSI 5* McLain Ward and Rothchild topped the field in the first five-star grand prix of the WEF season. © Sportfot Leslie Campbell and E.L. Raymond won the Camping World Adult Amateur 50 & Two-time Olympic team and 2015 de l’Ile) also known as Bongo, was Over Hunter Section A championship at WEF 5 and was named the Kastel Denmark Pan American Games individual gold his usual quirky self throughout the Best Turned Out Award winner. medalist McLain Ward (USA) jumped night. Bongo gave Ward some trouble A great week of weather complimented an excellent week of hunter competition to a thrilling victory on Saturday night in the schooling ring before the jump- during week 5 of WEF. The professional divisions kicked off the week in the E.R. in the $380,000 Fidelity Investments® off, leaving his rider a little unsure of Mische Grand Hunter Ring with the crowning of the Shapley’s Green Conformation Grand Prix CSI 5* at the 2016 Winter how things were going to go, but after Equestrian Festival (WEF). Ward and his throwing a few more antics as they Hunter champion. longtime mount Rothchild raced to the entered the ring for the short course, top of an eight-horse jump-off in front he set off on a mission. Scott Stewart rode Fun to the Shapley’s Green Conformation Hunter championship. of a packed house at the Palm Beach Stewart dominated the division aboard the six-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). “Bongo and I were having a rough that is owned by David Gochman. The pair won the model, under saddle, and three Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (GER) night in the schooling area,” Ward of the four over fences classes. They also placed second in the handy class. Havens and Comanche 28 finished second, detailed. “It is a pretty lively atmosphere Schatt settled for the reserve tricolor aboard Tracy Sherriff-Muser’s mount Quincy. and Mark Bluman (COL) and Califa back there and this is his eighth year Schatt piloted the eight-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding to a third, fourth, and LS placed third. jumping grand prixs here, so he knows two second place finishes over fences, as well as a second in the under saddle. it and he anticipates it. The warm-up Bob Ellis (GBR) set the track for was pretty rough, and he was pretty The Pre-Green Hunter 3’3” division, presented by Perfect Products, crowned its 44 starters in Saturday’s feature class excited to the point where I was not division champion on Thursday afternoon. Christopher Payne and Well Played took under the lights of PBIEC’s International sure that it was going to go very well. home the championship title after winning two of the four over fences classes. Arena. Eight entries advanced to the We barely warmed up, but sometimes Payne also earned two fourth place ribbons over jumps atop the eight-year-old jump-off, where the top three were the that works out. You have no choice, and Zangersheide gelding. Jennifer Bliss and Face The Music were the reserve champion only combinations to jump double clear. you do the best you can. He’s tough in winners. Face The Music is a seven-year-old Warmblood mare owned by Harris the warm-up, but it is that spirit that Hill Farm LLC. Bliss earned three second place ribbons over fences and a fourth Second to go over the short course, probably makes him do physically much Bluman set the pace with a clear round more than he should have done in his in the under saddle on her way to the reserve title. in 53.51 seconds aboard Stransky’s career, so you have to take the good Mission Farms’ Califa LS. Ward and with the bad.” Junior riders also battled it out for championship titles this week. Aizlynn Radwanski Sagamore Farm’s Rothchild were next claimed the top honors in the Children’s Hunter Horse 15-17. She rode her own to clear the jump-off in a blazing time of Ward now has another top mount Cute Date, an eight-year old Warmblood gelding, to the under saddle win and a 48.96 seconds. Michaels-Beerbaum and in HH Azur that has taken some of blue ribbon in one of the over fences classes. She also placed second in another Artemis Equestrian Farm’s Comanche Rothchild’s workload, but the spirited over fences class. Brynn Hanson and MTM Caruso S earned the reserve title after 28 settled for second place in a time little chestnut continues to win in his placing first, second, third, and fourth over jumps. MTM Caruso S is a 10-year-old of 50.05 seconds. Eduardo Menezes own right. While Azur is Ward’s hopeful Rheinlander gelding owned by Jamie Stryker. (BRA) and Quintol clocked the fastest mount for this year’s Olympic Games, four-fault round in 49.74 seconds to Rothchild will continue to compete in Later in the show week, the Carolex Stables Younger Cross Rail Hunter division finish fourth. top competitions. awarded championship honors to Vivian Golden and Chapman. Golden placed first Rothchild, a 15-year-old Belgian in the under saddle. 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