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Ribbons galore for show jumper Thompson

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20150413

Teenag­er Am­ber Thom­son con­tin­ued to rep­re­sent T&T with suc­cess, with her lat­est achieve­ment record­ed at the Win­ter Eques­tri­an Fes­ti­val held at the Palm Beach In­ter­na­tion­al Eques­tri­an Cen­ter in Welling­ton, Flori­da, last month, where she was award­ed sev­er­al pres­ti­gious rib­bons.

Mount­ed on 16-year-old Ar­gen­tine thor­ough­bred, Ver­ti­go, who is the same age as her, Thom­son col­lect­ed rib­bons in al­most every ap­pear­ance at the are­na, where they jumped the course with ob­sta­cles up to 1.2m high.

Thomp­son and Ver­ti­go se­cured an eighth place fin­ish in the open­ing speed class, but fol­lowed up well with a fourth place fin­ish in the Clas­sic Show jump­ing class, the next day when they jumped two clear rounds, but were beat­en by time in the jump off.

In the "Clear Round gets a Rib­bon" leg of the com­pe­ti­tion, held sev­er­al days lat­er, Thomp­son rode two clear rounds, fol­low­ing which she was award­ed the cel­e­brat­ed rib­bons.

On the fol­low­ing Sat­ur­day, in an­oth­er Clas­sic Show jump­ing class, Thomp­son and Ver­ti­go con­ced­ed four faults in the jump off, but cleared the first the first round.

The, in the Chil­dren's Mod­i­fied jumper class, both rid­er and horse per­formed two out­stand­ing clear rounds. The time in the jump off was 38.307 sec­onds, plac­ing the pair third in a class of 40 en­trants. The win­ner's clocked 37.674 sec­onds.

In the fi­nal week of the Win­ter Eques­tri­an Fes­ti­val, Thomp­son claimed an­oth­er rib­bon for rid­ing a clear round. She and Ver­ti­go went fur­ther to place sec­ond in yet an­oth­er Clas­sic Show jump­ing class with clear rounds in the first and jump off rounds and in a very good time on this oc­ca­sion.

They were beat­en by half a sec­ond by one of the last rid­ers. On the last day of the com­pe­ti­tion, on March 29, the two­some placed fifth in the fi­nal Clas­sic Show jump­ing class.

Once again the first round was a clear, but Thomp­son had a rail down in the jump off which un­for­tu­nate­ly amount­ed to four faults.

Cana­di­an eques­tri­an and eight-time Olympiad, Ian Mil­lar, con­grat­u­lat­ed Thomp­son on be­ing award­ed rib­bons al­most each time in the Clas­sic Show jump­ing class.

Thomp­son has tem­porar­i­ly re­turned to T&T. She and 14-year-old Jor­danne Brown will rep­re­sent this coun­try at the Caribbean Eques­tri­an As­so­ci­a­tion's (CEA) Ju­nior Jump­ing com­pe­ti­tion to be held in the Cay­man Is­lands on both days next week­end.

Ear­li­er in Feb­ru­ary, where­by part of the com­pe­ti­tion was held in Bar­ba­dos, T&T placed first, rep­re­sent­ed by Hadley Ra­hael and Jor­danne Brown. Af­ter com­pet­ing in the Cay­man Is­lands, Thomp­son will re­turn to the Mil­lar Brooke Farm in Cana­da where she will con­tin­ue to ride and com­pete.


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