After the successful completion of their horse inspection held on Sunday, July 19, the show jumpers began competition on Tuesday July 21. The weather could not have been more perfect with sunny skies and highs in the low 70s and a good breeze to keep everyone cool. Fifty jumpers from 16 different nations took a turn around designer Michel Viallancourt’s initial course. Thirty put in clean rounds with no rails down and within the time.
The rules this year have been changed and instead of using a first speed class, the class was operated under Table A, not against the clock and with no jump off. The height of the fences was 1.50 meters and there were 12 numbered fences with 15 total jumping efforts, including three double combinations and a liverpool. Though no one could tell me for sure, it seems that yesterday’s class figures into the team rankings somehow, but not really the individual competition. By the time the show jumpers get to their final day of competition on Saturday though, the horse and rider scores are re-set to zero faults again. The riders had various opinions of this new format, some in favor and some not.
Both the U.S.A. and Canada had all four of their riders turn in clear rounds; they were the only countries to have all four team riders go clean on the first day. Representing the U.S.A. are: McLain Ward and his Rothchild, a 14-year-old Belgian Sporthorse gelding; Georgina Bloomberg and Lilli, an 11-year-old Brandenburg mare owned by James Doyle and Amanda Minikus; Lauren Hough and Ohlala, an 11-year-old Swedish Warmblood mare owned by Linda Hough and Mark Phillips, and Kent Farrington and Gazelle, a nine-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare owned by Robin Parsky and Alexandra Warriner.
Canada’s team members are: Yann Candele and Showgirl, a 10-year-old Selle Francais mare owned by John Edwards and Jennifer Rogers; Eric Lamaze and Coco Bongo, a 10-year-old Rhinelander stallion owned by Carlene and Andrew Ziegler; Tiffany Foster and Triple X III, a 13-year-old Anglo-European stallion owned by Caitlin Ziegler and Rebecca Foster (purchased from Great Britain after the stallion was part of the UK gold medal team in the 2012 Olympics), and Ian Miller and Dixson, a 12-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding owned by Susan and Ariel Grange.
Assuming everyone is healthy and able; all 50 jumpers will return for the team competition on Thursday with two rounds (Nations Cup style) with team medal ceremonies following that. Then the field will be narrowed a bit for the individual finals on Saturday with two rounds that day as well with individual medals to follow to close out the 2015 Pan American Games equestrian competition. The show jumping was televised here in Canada on CBC last night and is available for viewing at espn.go.com for a limited time in the U.S.
For more information go to www.toronto2015.org for orders of go and results. More to come from the jumper competition tomorrow!
See more photos from the 2015 Toronto Pan-Am Games: Initial Dressage Horse Inspection Dressage Team Competition Day One Dressage Team Final Dressage Individual Final Eventing Preview Eventing Dressage Eventing Cross-Country Eventing Final
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