Woodstock Eventing's Weekend Wrap Up

PC: Cindy Lawler

Last weekend was a busy one for Woodstock Eventing. Ryan competed at both the $50,000 LiftMaster Grand-Prix Eventing competition as well as Sporting Days Farm Horse Trials in Aiken. Grand-Prix Eventing kicked off on a very wet Friday morning with dressage. Ryan rode the Woodstock Bennett Syndicate's Woodstock Bennett who he has produced from a four-year-old to a competitive 5* horse. Ryan and Bennett performed a solid test to earn a 35.1. That same afternoon the pair jumped a brilliant show jumping round only to have a very unlucky rail at the final fence. Ryan was pleased with Bennett's performance and how well he remained all business even with the high level of atmosphere and large crowds surrounding the arena. Click here (2:32:00) to watch their dressage test and here (1:00:35) to watch their show jumping round.

Eiffel galloping through the water.

After wrapping up the Grand-Prix Eventing competition on Friday evening, Ryan turned his focus to Sporting Days Farm. On Saturday, he rode Monique Sanchez's Cooley Shutterfly Cruise, Amy Peloquin's Cooley Titanium, and Curran Simpson's Oberon Van Heiste. In Open Novice-A, Cooley Shutterfly Cruise scored a 31.9 in dressage, had one rail down in show jumping, and added no penalties on cross country to finish 8th. Cooley Titanium finished on his dressage score of 36.2 for 8th place in Open Novice-B. Oberon Van Heiste also finished the competition on his dressage score of 31.4 in 6th.

Cooley Titanium

Oberon Van Heiste

Cooley Shutterfly Cruise

In Open Training-A, Ryan rode Mary Hazzard's Mystic Hazzard and Cheryl Gamboney's Gambado. Mystic Hazzard moved up the leaderboard after her double clear show jumping and cross country round to finish in 6th on her dressage score of 31.1. Gambado delivered a great dressage test to score a 29.8 to tie for 4th after dressage. He had an unlucky rail and added no penalties on cross country to finish 11th.

Mystic Hazzard

Gambado

Next, Ryan piloted Linda Ledray's Cooley Flight and Cooley By Design in the Open Training-B division. Cooley Flight scored a 27.7 in dressage and moved up the leaderboard to take home 2nd after a double clear show jumping and cross country round. Cooley By Design scored a 28.9 in dressage and added only one rail in show jumping to finish 9th.

Cooley Flight

Cooley By Design

Summit Sporthorses' Eiffel, Curran Simpson's Tullabeg Dilson and RF Cosmosall had great results in the Open Training-C division. Eiffel scored a 35.5 in dressage and added no penalties to move up the leaderboard and finish 5th. Only 1.4 points behind her was Tullabeg Dilson, who finished on his dressage score of 36.1 for 6th place. RF Cosmos scored a 34.6 in dressage, added one rail in show jumping, and no penalties on cross country to finish the day in 7th place.

Eiffel

RF Cosmos

Tullabeg Dilson

Assistant Rider, Nicole Etheridge finished 7th in the Preliminary/Training division aboard her own Vanquish. The pair scored a 33.5 in dressage, had 8 faults in show jumping, and jumped clear and fast around the cross country course.

Coming up this week, Ryan is heading to Tallahassee, Florida to compete three horses at Red Hills International.

Eiffel