Last Updated on April 2, 2024 by adminahb
The final week of the 2024 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) came to a close on Sunday with a victory for USA’s Eve Jobs and her own High Point VDL (Tinka’s Boy x Indoctro) in the $62,500 Vogel CSI2* Grand Prix in the main arena at Wellington International. Thirteen weeks of exceptional jumper, hunter, and equitation competition at WEF concluded on Sunday.
Guilherme Jorge (BRA) laid down one final track for forty-five two-start athletes. From the initial field, six returned for a tie-breaking jump-off.
Jobs recently returned to the competition arena and rode 12-year-old gelding, High Point VDL, to their first win together as a team. “He’s a horse I actually got a couple years back from Enda Carroll and Stephanie Carroll from Ashford Farm, and he’s been amazing,” said Jobs. “I took a couple years away from the sport and would just come back for a few shows here and there throughout the year. I slowly but surely built a really special partnership with him, and it’s been amazing.”
Their partnership peaked as the pair jumped double clear, crossing the short course finish line in 41.19 seconds. “He’s rideable and he’s got such great natural balance. He’s a naturally very careful horse and today it was good enough,” continued Jobs.
Laura Karet and Dinner at 8 Capture Final Champion Ribbon in Marshall & Sterling Adult Amateur Hunters
Riders in the Adult Amateur Hunters 50 and older division, presented by Marshall & Sterling, laid down their final trips in the Grand Hunter Arena for the 2024 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) season on Sunday.
Twenty-five horse-and-rider combinations performed over two final over-fences rounds and a flat before the champion was named. After winning two of the jumping rounds, as well as the under saddle, the pairing of Laura Karet of Pittsburgh, PA and Dinner at 8 were the obvious frontrunners.
“I am going to get on the plane feeling very good,” Karet, an entrepreneur who is currently in the middle of franchising a new endeavor, gushed. “It’s been a wonderful season for the whole barn, with good friends and good horses, so this is a nice capper on the whole winter.”
With a total division score of 34 points and ribbons including three firsts and a third, Karet’s final performance with Glade Run Farm LLC’s 10-year-old Oldenburg gelding by Bretton Woods was a memorable one.
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