Sand­hya Moll and Adelle Stollmey­er will rep­re­sent T&T in the un­der-16 and un­der-14 cat­e­gories, re­spec­tive­ly, in the T&T leg of the Caribbean Eques­tri­an As­so­ci­a­tion's (CEA) Ju­nior Show Jump­ing Com­pe­ti­tion on Re­pub­lic Day week­end (Sep­tem­ber 24 and 25) at the Hid­den Val­ley Sta­bles, San­ta Cruz.

Vis­it­ing coun­tries will in­clude Ja­maica, Bar­ba­dos and the Cay­man Is­lands with all three coun­tries send­ing one coach and two rid­ers. Last week­end young eques­tri­ans put on an im­pres­sive show-jump­ing dis­play, when the T&T Eques­tri­an As­so­ci­a­tion (T&TEA) held tri­als on Sep­tem­ber 10-11 to de­ter­mine who would be the rid­ers to rep­re­sent our coun­try in the CEA re­gion­al event. The tri­als con­sist­ed of six jump­ing rounds with rid­ers be­ing al­lowed to drop one round, that be­ing their worst score.

The cours­es set were chal­leng­ing, and over the two days of com­pe­ti­tion, each rid­er com­pet­ed on three dif­fer­ent hors­es, to fur­ther test their abil­i­ties. In the un­der-16 cat­e­go­ry, spec­ta­tors saw keen com­pe­ti­tion amongst three con­tenders. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, Cam­mi­la Gar­cia was forced to re­tire hav­ing had a fall in the warm-up are­na pri­or to her fifth round. This left Moll and Char­lotte Mor­ri­son to bat­tle it out for the first place. Both mounts for each of these young ladies knocked on­ly one rail dur­ing the en­tire com­pe­ti­tion, and since they were al­lowed to drop one round, this left them both with five clear rounds and ze­ro faults. The de­cid­ing fac­tor be­ing on­ly their ac­cu­mu­la­tive times, with Moll's time of 298.78 giv­ing her the win over Mor­ri­son's time of 314.08. De­spite in­tense chal­lenges from Am­ber Thomp­son and Mariel Lanser, Stollmey­er emerged the win­ner of the un­der-14 cat­e­go­ry, who af­ter drop­ping her round score with ten faults, took the lead with five clear rounds, and a to­tal of ze­ro faults. Lanser end­ed the event in sec­ond place with a to­tal of sev­en faults, in­clud­ing two clear rounds, and Thomp­son, in third with a to­tal of 12 faults, in­clud­ing three clear rounds.