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Ocala, FL – Feature competition wrapped up this afternoon during week III of the 2023 Winter Spectacular Show Series. A top-level field consisting of 15 horse-and-rider combinations set out to challenge the closing tracks built by Anderson Lima (BRA) in the $15,000 Taylor Harris Insurance Services 1.45m Jumper Classic. Harold Chopping and the Rein Family LLC’s Quadrant 3 (Quadros x O-Carlotta) emerged victorious at the end of the class and galloped away with the top prize.
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Fifteen elite competitors put forth their best effort over Lima’s first round track where seven ultimately qualified for the immediate jump-off. In the jump-off only three managed to keep all rails up during the short course and were separated by just a few tenths of a second.
Sam Pegg (CAN) kicked off the jump-off aboard his own Dolla 3. The pair put forth a good effort in 38.102 seconds, but fell victim to one rail down.
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Sean Jobin (CAN) and Foxridge Farms Stable’s Cuba Libre V (Cornet Obolensky x Grace) were the next pair in to find a clear first round. Jobin and the 11-year-old Westphalian mare flew through the short course, leaving a stride out from three to four, to fly around the rest of the course stopping the clock at 37.532 seconds, setting the pace for the remainder of the class.
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The next to qualify for the immediate jump-off was Daniel Geitner (USA) and Seth Vallhonrat’s Satellite (Grupo From Jirano x Pigony Van’t Scome). Geitner and ten-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare found an incredibly fast track shaving less than three tenths of a second off Jobin’s time in 37.236 seconds to take the lead.
Jilly Gaffney and FF Blade Runner followed. The pair put in a solid effort, but had one rail down in the process in 40.012 seconds.
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Harold Chopping (USA) and the 11-year-old Holsteiner gelding were the next combination to find a clear path in the first round.
Chopping used a bit of a different strategy in the jump-off for the big talented gelding, “He’s a big horse with a lot of talent, scope and a huge step. That’s always what I try to use to be fast. I count the number around the corners and leave out steps where I can, I have to be a little scientific about it. He has such an easy way of go, it’s all very methodical. I use the numbers to my advantage and use his step as my gauge.”
Chopping and Quadrant 3 started off on a gallop at the sound of the tone, “I did seven from one to two, then nine back to the double combination. I don’t think there was any less you could do there. I opted to do the six to the liver pool, I know Sean [Jobin] did five, but I didn’t think that was the right move for my horse. Then I rolled back to the oxer in nine and rolled back to the final vertical in nine.”
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The pair soared through the timers in 37.122 seconds to snatch the victory.
$15,000 Taylor Harris Insurance Services 1.45m Jumper Classic Results:
1 Quadrant 3, Harold Chopping, Rein Family LLC: 0 | 0 | 37.122
2 Satellite, Daniel Geitner, Seth Vallhonrat: 0 | 0 | 37.236
3 Cuba Libre V, Sean Jobin, Foxridge Farms Stables: 0 | 0 | 37.532
4 Clever Van De Helle, Kyle Dewar, Kyle Dewar: 0 | 4 | 36.890
5 Dolla 3 Sam Pegg, Sam Pegg: 0 | 4 | 38.102
6 FF Blade Runner, Jill Gaffney, Freestyling Farms LLC: 0 | 4 | 40.012
7 Big Girl Z, Sam Pegg, Sam Pegg: 0 | 8 | 38.506
8 Sterrehof’s Edinus, Sean Jobin, Antrim Equestrian: 2 | 79.636
9 Sigma, Luis Sabino Goncalves, Sigma Stables LLC: 4 | 73.020
10 Ivaro N, Lisa Goldman-Smolen, Barbara Disko: 4 | 73.020
Photos courtesy of Andrew Ryback Photography.
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