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THE WARM-UP RING The Official News of the Jumping Committee September 2019, Volume 15, Issue 9 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR IN THIS ISSUE their phone – whatever works! – to ensure that they have all their ducks in a row for 2020 as follows: On The Show Scene • Join your National Federation Michelle C. Dunn (EC) and purchase any other Canada Second in BMO Nations’ memberships you may need to count Cup at Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ points early in the year (provincial Royal Horse Show’s Opening hunter/jumper associations, CET Medal program registration, etc.). Weekend Showcases Canadian Double check that payment has gone Championships through and that you are a member Vote NOW for Eric Lamaze in the in good standing. • Make a decision early if you wish FEI Awards to request a change of province for BMO Introduces the Ian Millar your CET Medal Regional Final. The deadline is August 15 of each year Legacy Award with no exceptions. Thank you to our NAYC Sponsors! Fall is officially upon us, and the annual The Jumping Committee does its best to countdown to the Royal Agricultural Winter grant requests for a change of province so Get Your Jump Canada Hall of Fair is underway. With it comes the four that riders are able to compete in the region Fame Tickets! CET Medal Regional Finals which, in turn, that is most suitable for them. However, it Richard Mongeau Departs as Chief determine the riders who qualify for the cannot grant exceptions. It is clearly written Running Fox CET Medal National Final at in the Rulebook. Executive Officer of Equestrian The Royal. Canada Be responsible and ensure that all of The CET Medal Regional Finals bring a the above is taken care of. The onus is Rules Corner whole new level of stress for our riders who on our members to ensure they join the are 21 years of age and younger. Only appropriate bodies where their points will Donate Now to Help Horses 16 riders from across the country qualify be tracked. If you miss one link in the Impacted by Hurricane Dorian for the CET Medal National Final, with chain, your points won’t be retroactive, and four coming from each region. Parents you may not be able to qualify to compete. Registration Now Open for a Whole also worry about their children qualifying New EC Convention Experience As in life itself, the responsibility for our and, if they do, about the ensuing financial behaviour lies on our own shoulders. burden of making the trip to Toronto to CET and JC Medal Standings Please make 2020 a relaxed competition compete. The Royal Agricultural Winter year by ensuring that all your membership Five New Directors Elected to Fair is in a league of its own when it comes fees are paid on time, if not early. Then you Equestrian Canada Board to competition. The best of the best from can take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy across the nation are vying for the top your show season knowing you are ready Proposed 2020 EC Rule Changes prizes, and stress levels can go through the to compete! Available for Review and Comment roof. Sadly, every year, some competitors Success Stories needlessly add to their already high Longines World Rider Rankings levels of anxiety by forgetting to join the appropriate associations which ensures Pamela Law Acknowledgments that their CET Medal qualifying points will Chair, count. Jumping Committee We suggest that competitors write themselves a little note or set a reminder in SEPTEMBER 2019 THE WARM-UP RING 1 ON THE SHOW SCENE CSIO5* Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ tournament | Calgary, AB – September 4-8, 2019 All Photo Credits – © Starting Gate Communications Lisa Carlsen and Parette, fresh off competing at the 2019 Pan American Games. Nations’ Cup team alternates, Vanessa Mannix and Valentino d’Elte. Eric Lamaze and Fine Lady 5 enjoyed a top-five finish in the $3 million CP International. Eric Lamaze and Kaytlyn Brown reward Chacco Kid with his favourite treat, a banana! Erynn Ballard at the BMO Nations’ Cup autograph session. Ian Millar with the BMO Nations’ Cup trophy. Caroline Jones, Fran McAvity, and Pamela Law. Team Canada at the BMO Nations’ Cup Calgary’s Kara Chad and her exciting new autograph session. Karen Hendry-Ouellette and Mike Lawrence. mount, Quidamo F. SEPTEMBER 2019 THE WARM-UP RING 2 Starting Gate Communications The second-placed Canadian Show Jumping Team in the $530,000 BMO Nations’ Cup. Left to right: Eric Lamaze and Coco Bongo; Erynn Ballard and Fellini S; Mario Deslauriers and Amsterdam 27; and Kara Chad on Quidamo F with chef d’equipe Mark Laskin. CANADA SECOND IN BMO NATIONS’ CUP AT SPRUCE MEADOWS ‘MASTERS’ The Canadian Show Jumping Team finished second in the $530,000 BMO Nations’ Cup held Saturday, September 7, at the CSIO5* Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ tournament in Calgary, AB. Erynn Ballard of Tottenham, ON; Kara Chad of Calgary, AB; Mario Deslauriers of New York, NY; and Eric Lamaze of Wellington, FL, took on nine other countries in the richest show jumping team competition held in North America. For the second year in a row, Canada finished in the runner-up position with a total of 14 faults. Belgium, the newly crowned European Champions, won in convincing fashion Starting Gate Communications with a total of four faults. With victory sewn up after its first three riders posted clear performances in the second round, there was no need for anchor rider Yves Vanderhasselt to return for a second time. Ireland took third with 19 faults; Sweden was fourth with 20 faults; Mexico fifth with 25 faults; and France was sixth with 53 faults. Only the top six teams returned for the second round with defending champions Germany failing to make the cut. The United States, the reigning World Champions, also failed to advance while the Netherlands and Italy were also left on the sidelines. As Canada’s lead-off rider, Deslauriers had the opening element of the BMO triple combination down with Amsterdam 27, a nine-year-old Holsteiner gelding (Catoki x Acord II) owned by Luja LLC and Wishing Well Farm LLC. The fence would prove to be the ‘bogey’ element of the day, falling Mario Deslauriers and Amsterdam 27, owned by Luja LLC and Wishing Well Farm LLC. SEPTEMBER 2019 THE WARM-UP RING 3 Starting Gate Communications Starting Gate Communications Kara Chad and Quidamo F, owned by Stone Ridge Farms LLC. Starting Gate Communications Eric Lamaze celebrates his clear round with Coco Bongo, owned by Erynn Ballard and Fellini S, owned by Ilan Ferder. Artisan Farms and Torrey Pines Stable. more often than any other element on course designer Leopoldo Palacios’s tough track. The pair returned to jump clear the second time out, keeping Canada in the hunt for a potential third title in the event that has been held annually since 1977. Chad debuted a new mount, Quidamo F, a nine-year-old Swiss Warmblood gelding sired by Quality 9 and owned by Stone Ridge Farms LLC, in Nations’ Cup competition in front of her hometown crowd. The 23-year-old had a rail at the double combination at fence five but quickly recovered to successfully jump the open water and continue home with the rest of the rails in place, albeit with one time fault for exceeding the 73-second time allowed. Fresh off their double-clear performance in the team competition at the recent Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Ballard and Fellini S were next in the order for Canada. After having rails at 11 ‘a’ and at the final fence, Ballard and the nine-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Vermont x Rash R), owned by Ilan Ferder, jumped clear the second time out, only getting caught by the clock for one time fault. Lamaze, the 2008 Olympic Champion, anchored the team with a clear in the first round and four faults in the second when the Canadian plank fence fell. Having ridden Chacco Kid to victory earlier in the day in the $133,700 Suncor Energy Winning Round, Lamaze saddled Coco Bongo, a 14-year-old Rheinlander gelding (Caretino x Calido) owned by Artisan Farms and Torrey Pines Stable, for the BMO Nations’ Cup. Dropping Ballard’s score in the opening round and Chad’s in the second, Canada incurred a final score of 14 faults to finish runner-up for the second year in a row. “It was a great team effort from all our riders; they all contributed,” said Mark Laskin, chef d’equipe of the Canadian Show Jumping Team. “Everyone really pulled together. There is no shame in being second to the European Champions. “I’m very excited about our prospects,” continued Laskin of Langley, BC. “We had three nine-year-old horses jumping today in big league competition. Spruce Meadows is very impressive. The questions just kept compounding, and all of our horses improved in the second round and found the answers. I’m thrilled, and it bodes well for the future of our team.” SEPTEMBER 2019 THE WARM-UP RING 4 Ben Radvanyi Photography Nicole Walker of Aurora, ON, riding Falco van Spieveld won the 2018 Canadian Show Jumping Championship title. ROYAL HORSE SHOW’S OPENING WEEKEND SHOWCASES CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS The Henry Equestrian Canadian Show Jumping Championships Photo courtesy of RCMP will highlight the opening weekend of the Royal Horse Show, held as part of the annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, from November 1 through 10, 2019, in downtown Toronto, ON. Opening Night of the Royal Horse Show kicks off with the $25,000 Henry Equestrian Canadian Show Jumping Championship, Round 1, on Friday, November 1.