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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Thompson rides away with High Point trophy

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Ky­na Thomp­son rid­ing Monte Car­lo pro­duced the high­est score with 65.518%, help­ing her team, Trinidad and To­ba­go lead the F&ea­cute;d&ea­cute;ra­tion &Ea­cute;questre In­ter­na­tionale (FEI) World Dres­sage Chal­lenge which took place on Feb­ru­ary 16 at the Hid­den Val­ley Sta­bles, San­ta Cruz. Thomp­son won the cham­pi­on High Point tro­phy spon­sored by San An­to­nio Farms. Cam­mi­la Gar­cia rid­ing Mi­ramis re­ceived the re­serve cham­pi­on High Point tro­phy, spon­sored by La Ve­ga Es­tate with a score of 65%.

The lo­cal con­tin­gent se­lect­ed pri­or to the dres­sage chal­lenge along with Thomp­son and Gar­cia, Chelsea Thomas (Zim­bu Das Um­baranus), Patrice Stollmey­er (Clau­dio) and Al­ix Bovell (Wait­ing at the Gate).In sec­ond and third places at the end of the day were Bar­ba­dos (63.573%) and Ja­maica (63.335%).The pur­pose of the World Dres­sage Chal­lenge is for de­vel­op­ing na­tions to com­pete in an in­ter­na­tion­al eques­tri­an event in their own coun­try.

Among the teams were T&T, Bar­ba­dos and Ja­maica, Bermu­da and the Cay­man Is­lands. Haiti had to pull out soon be­fore the chal­lenges com­menced.On the day, 13 adults rode in the ad­vanced, medi­um, el­e­men­tary and pre­lim­i­nary class­es, while two chil­dren took part in the pre­lim­i­nary chil­dren's' class.Present were of­fi­cial FEI In­ter­na­tion­al Dres­sage judges, Ja­nine Rohr-Cir­curel from Ar­genti­na (Pres­i­dent of the Ground Ju­ry) and Ri­car­do Ro­jas from Cos­ta Ri­ca, who was al­so present last year. The judges ex­pressed their plea­sure with the stan­dard and qual­i­ty of rid­ers and hors­es and that of the young rid­ers. Ro­jas ac­knowl­edged an im­prove­ment in rid­ers' han­dling of tests from last year.The judges then worked with the com­peti­tors and their hors­es on the fol­low­ing day, giv­ing point­ers and ad­vice.Re­sults of the com­pe­ti­tion on Feb­ru­ary 16 in Trinidad will go to­wards the fi­nal re­sult.


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