Holloway is an Arizona regular and one of the most consistent High-Performance riders on the circuit. She has placed in every Grand Prix offered this year at HITS Arizona, including a victory in the $25,000 EMO Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health, during the Tucson Winter Classic.

On Sunday, Canadian Course Designer Chris Brandt set a 12-effort first round course with a time allowed of 82 seconds. Holloway was one of four pairs to advance to the jump-off, as dropped rails and time faults weeded down the competition.

Michelle Parker and Tula Pinnella’s Reina were third in the order and the first pair to post a clear round. Five more riders attempted to do the same, but it wasn’t until Parker returned to the ring aboard her second mount, Clever, that another clear round was produced, forcing a jump-off. Five rounds later, Holloway went clear aboard Argentina and made it three for the jump-off. The final two riders of the first round, Parker riding her third mount, Cross Creek Farms, Inc.’s Socrates De Midos, and Bjorn Ikast riding Omar Shariff, followed Holloway’s lead with clean rounds.

Brandt’s jump-off featured seven fences with one combination and a time allowed of 49 seconds. Parker was up first aboard Reina and set the pace by posting a clear round in 40.662 seconds. Parker immediately returned to the ring aboard Clever only to beat the time she had just set not moments before by more than second.

“It’s never easy when Brandie and Bjorn follow you in the jump-off,” admitted Parker. “Going first and second, I was really competing against myself for the best time. In my first ride aboard Reina I wanted to be clean and competitive. Clever is a very fast horse and I was just a little bit too conservative on him this time. By not going flat out, I played it a little too safe.”

Holloway was next and made the dash for the cash in a quick and clean 37.741 to set the new Great American Time to Beat, capturing the lead and the first-place check for $7,500.

Parker was back, this time aboard Socrates De Midos and looking to recapture the lead; however, a dropped rail at the second fence lead Parker to voluntarily withdraw from the round. In the end, Parker finished third, fourth and fifth on the day and collected a total of $6,750 in prize money.

Ikast held the last to go spot in the jump-off but with a time of 38.416 was not able to take the lead away from Holloway and had to settle for second place.

“Sunday’s course was very nice,” Parker said. “I thought it was great that the Management at the horse show moved up the class to beat the wild weather that we’ve been having out here. It was beautiful and sunny during the Grand Prix, which made for a great class. Hopefully this weekend the weather will continue to cooperate.”

Holloway has competed in four of the eight Grand Prix classes needed to qualify for the Pfizer $1 Million Grand Prix which will take place on September 12 at HITS-on-the-Hudson in Saugerties, New York. Currently, Thermal’s John Anderson and Terrific sit at the top of the Pfizer Million Rider Rankings.

The next chance for Holloway and the other high-performance riders in Arizona to take aim at qualifying for the Pfizer Million takes place on Sunday, March 14 with the $25,000 Strongid® C 2X Grand Prix, presented by Pfizer Animal Health.

1. SALVATORE, RAY TEXEL, PINE HOLLOW STABLES: 0/60.380

2. KANNAN’S GIRL Z, QUENTIN JUDGE, DOUBLE H FARM: 0/63.461

3. BELLE BLEU S, SHANE SWEETNAM, JERRY & MARIA SWEETNAM & SPY COAST FARM: 0/63.981

4. MURKA’S NEVADA VI, PETER CHARLES, OLGA WHITE: 0/64.769

5. CARLOS DE NOEL, TIFFANY FOSTER, TIFFANY FOSTER: 0/65.333

6. SCARFACE, NORMAN DELLO JOIO, TONY WEIGHT: 0/67.948

7. OLIVER, JUDY GAROFALO TORRES, HIGHER GROUND FARM INC.: 0/68.786

8. ALASKA, TODD MINIKUS, CALLIE SEAMAN: 0/69.081

9. VALENTINO, RAMIRO QUINTANA, JAZZ MACE: 0/69.200

10. TARCO, RAMIRO QUINTANA, JAZZ MACE: 0/73.064

11. LADY LIKE, RICHARD SPOONER, C&S PARTNERSHIP: 4/60.098

12. PAN TAU 55, JACLYN DUFF, JACLYN DUFF: 4/65.499

$6,000 Spy Coast 1.40m Time First Round

1. CANTATE Z, RODRIGO PESSOA, DOUBLE H FARM: 0/52.837

2. PRIMA, BEEZIE MADDEN, NEAPOLITAN HOLDING CO.: 0/53.015

3. STARLIGHT, KATE LEVY, KATE LEVY: 0/53.021

4. INVITATIONAL, LINDA SHERIDAN, LINDA SHERIDAN: 0/53.710

5. SUMMER STORM, AMY MOMROW, SHAINE BROOKS: 0/54.963

6. CAZINO, ALEXA PESSOA, PESSOA STABLES LLC: 0/55.587

7. MONJEAN DU VALLET, EDOUARD DE ROTHSCHILD, EDOUARD DE ROTHSCHILD: 0/56.768

8. UDETTE, BENJAMIN MEREDITH, RAYLYN FARMS INC: 0/57.343

9. CATRIN LA CANTERA, JOHN PEREZ, DANIEL RIHAN: 0/58.498

10. CASA BLANCA LA SILLA, LISA JACQUIN, FLINTWOODE FARMS LLC: 0/59.009

11. LEGENDE DE B’NEVILLE, YANN CANDELE, RON & CARLA NOLAN: 0/60.658

12. LEONIDAS, SARAH JOHNSTONE, TRISH CRANG: 0/61.399

The complete  long list (name rider / horse :

1. McLain Ward / Sapphire

2. Laura Kraut / Cedric

3. Lauren Hough / Quick Study

4. Nicole Shahinian-Simpson/Tristan

5. Richard Spooner / Cristallo

6T. Mario Deslauriers / Harnsäure

6T. Beezie Madden / Danny Boy

8. McLain Ward / Rothchild

9. Hillary Dobbs / Quincy B

10. Beezie Madden / Mademoiselle

11. Candice King / Skara Glen’s Davos

12. Rich Fellers / Flexible

13. Todd Minikus / Pavarotti

14. Cara Raether / Ublesco

15. Bob Kraut / Graf Lando

Reserve

Ashlee Bond / Chivas Z

Georgina Bloomberg / Fiedi 3

Jeffery Welles / Armani

Nicole Shahinian-Simpson/Kilkenny Rindo

Charlie Jayne / Athena

Source:www.hoefslag.nl

Great Britain: Sarah Philipps seeks for Olympia

Referring to a report of www.horseandhound.co.uk the actual World Champion Eventing Zarah Philipps doesn’t expect an invitation for the World Eequestrian Games in Kentucky with her top-horse “Toytown” being out of action. As for Zara Philipps, she’s looking forward to participating at the Olympic Games 2012 in London though.

Netherlands

The USA and Canada won’t send their participants to s´Hertogenbosch for the Dressage World Cup Finals because of health problems of the riders and/or horses. Instead the Swedish rider Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven and the two Polish Michal Rapcewicz and Katarzyna Milczarek have been nominated.

The actual World Champion dressage Anky van Grunsven has not qualified for the finals, as her three compatriots Edward Gal, Adelinde Cornelissen and Imke Schellekens-Bartels achieved better results.

Participants of the Dressage World Cup-Finals 2010 in s´Hertogenbosch:

Netherlands – Edward Gal, Adelinde Cornelissen und Imke Schellekens-Bartels

Germany – Isabell Werth, Matthias Alexander Rath und Carola Koppelmann

Sweden – Patrick Kittel und Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven

Poland – Michal Rapcewicz und Katarzyna Milczarek

Australia – Brett Parbery

Belgium – Jeroen Devroe

Hunagry – Robert Acs

Denmark – Nathalie zu Sayn Wittgenstein

Brasil – Luiza Tavares de Almeida

Austria: No future for “Fest der Pferde” in Vienna

Vienna – On Tuesday the chief of administration Peter Nidetzky announced that the „Fest der Pferde“ festival in the Wiener Stadthalle won`t take place anymore because of the growing expenses and the lack of sponsoring funds.

Source: www.pferdenachrichten.de

Weekly Updates from the USEF High Performance Programs: Dressage

The prestigious Palm Beach Dressage Derby got underway on Thursday, March 4^th with some of the nation’s top riders competing in Loxahatchee, FL. Tina Konyot and her Danish Warmblood Calecto V triumphed over the field of elite horse and rider combinations in both the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special. In the Grand Prix Freestyle Mikala Gundersen and Leonberg put in a winning performance with a score of 72.250%; Canadian Jacqueline Brooks was second with Balmoral.

For complete results please visit http://www.pbderby.com/results-derby.html.

Endurance

Goethe Forest, near Williston, FL was the scene of the Fun in the Sun Endurance Festival and CEI event. Riders competed over three days at five distances. In the CEI3* 160km distance Meg Sleeper and Syrocco Reveille nosed out Kathy Brunjes and Theatric to win by just two seconds with a time of seven hours and  44 minutes. Sleeper and Brunjes set the pace for a competitive field that included all top 10 averaging speeds over 17 kilometers per hour.

Eventing

At the Red Hills International CIC3*-W in Tallahassee, FL Mara Dean posted the first winning score on the HSBC FEI World Cup™ Eventing leader board. Dean rode her veteran Nicki Henley, who has made an inspiring comeback after an injury at the 2007 Pan American Games. Leading after dressage and incurring only 9.2 penalties on the cross country, Dean was able to hold onto the lead after Phillip Dutton and Truluck had five time faults in the show jumping. Will Coleman and Nevada Bay finished just behind Dutton to place third.

For a full event re-cap please visit http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/newsdisplay/viewPR.aspx?id=5437.

For full results please visit http://www.evententries.com/livescoring/14564.html

Jumping

After nine days of fierce competition over five rounds of the USEF Selection Trials for the US Show Jumping Team, 15 horse/rider combinations were named to the Show Jumping Long List for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The Jumping was impressive and Richard Spooner and Cristallo lead the Trials after four rounds, putting in one spectacular effort after another, but in the end it was Nicole Shahinian-Simpson and Tristan who stylishly topped the standings with just nine faults over Spooner who settled for second.

Twenty-two combinations remained in the final Trial on Saturday which took place as part of the $150,000 CN US Open at the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Laura Kraut and Cedric, who had been named to the Long List after the second Trial, blazed through the jump-off to take home the win over Beezie Madden and Danny Boy by just 1/10^th of a second.

For the complete long list please see: USEF Names Horse/Rider Combinations to Show Jumping Long List

For final standings and all the information, please visit: http://www.usef.org/_IFrames/breedsDisciplines/discipline/alljumping/sjSelectionTrials.aspx

and

http://www.clubequestrian.com/coverage/weg_jumping_trial.aspx

Reining

The Cowboy Capital Reining CRI1* and 2* in Stephenville, TX played host to two of the last four qualifying competitions for the USEF Selection Trial for the Adequan US Reining Team for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games to be held in July. On Thursday, Brian Bell and Ruffle Me Up (owned by Greg Hill) took top honors in the CRI2*. Tom McCutcheon aboard Chexy Dun It (owned by Turnabout Farm) was a close second.

In the CRI1* held Sunday, it was the international riders that dazzled. Marco Ricotta of Italy and I Spin For Chics owned by McQuay Stables and Brad Giesbrecht of Canada riding Pop Top Whiz owned by Rosanne Sternberg bested the competition with a tie score of 220.

Information is available here: http://www.lonestararena.com/storm.cfm?funnelaction=1184.

Other

The USEF would like to extend best wishes and thoughts to USEF High Performance riders Jan Byyny and Courtney King-Dye. Both of these riders were involved in recent accidents and the entire equestrian community has rallied around them.

To follow Courtney’s progress, please visit her website: http://www.courtneykingdressage.com. For updates on Jan Byyny please see: http://www.surefireeventing.com/news.aspx.

For more information about the U.S. High Performance programs see: www.usef.org/_IFrames/breedsDisciplines/discipline/international.aspx.

The U.S. will send teams in eight different disciplines to the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY, in September of 2010. Watch this space for information about the best in the U.S. on the road to Kentucky.
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