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Visit Website Ben Maher and Tic Tac in their victory gallop after winning the $137,000 Restylane Grand Prix CSI***. © Sportfot It certainly came down to the wire with some of the world’s best riders giving the shortened course their best shot. Olympic gold medalist Lamaze also had a veteran partner for the test, finishing a close second aboard 18-year-old Fine Lady 5 for Artisan Farms and Little Creek Investments, in a time of 43.57 seconds. “Fine Lady is naturally very fast,” said Lamaze. “I’ve had a few classes where we went too fast and paid for it, and I asked myself, ‘Why di...

British rider Ben Maher piloted Jane Clark’s 18-year-old stallion Tic Tac, the horse he rode at the 2016 Rio Olympics, to a heart-stopping finish in Sunday’s $137,000 Restylane grand prix at the 2021 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), Florida. His victory came by the narrowest of margins – just one hundredth of a second – over Canada’s Eric Lamaze, who was also riding his 18-year-old Olympic partner, Fine Lady 5, with whom he won the individual bronze medal in Rio. Rounding out the top three in a fantastic result for teenage horses was Conor Swail of Ireland on the 13-year-old GK Coc...

Horse & Hound Trending: Credit: @ SPORTFOT Molly Ashe Cawley flew to the top of the podium aboard Berdien, a mare who endured a serious illness last year, in the $37,000 CaptiveOne Advisors 1.50m Jumper Classic on Friday, January 15, at the 2021 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), held at Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). Cawley has had Berdien since she was a six-year-old and brought her over from Europe shortly after that. The pair have experienced success from day one, but the mare was forced to sit out last year’s WEF after coming down with an illness while shi...

Horse & Hound Trending: Eric Lamaze and Chacco Kid Credit: © Sportfot After four months on the sidelines, Eric Lamaze (CAN) and his great partner Chacco Kid made a winning return to the ring in the opening class of international jumper competition at the 2021 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). As competition began at the Wellington Regional Medical Center CSI3* at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC), Lamaze and the 15-year-old Oldenburg gelding scored their first victory of the season in fine style in the $6,000 Douglas Elliman Real Estate 1.45m Jumpers on Wedn...

Donna Spencer January 12, 2021 - 1:32 PM Canadian show jumper Nicole Walker's appeal of a doping violation has been denied by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Canadian show jumping team's disqualification from the 2019 Pan American Games stands, which means Canada won't have a team in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. Canada finished fourth in the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru to qualify for Tokyo, but the disqualification of Walker's scores dropped the team to seventh. Walker tested positive for a cocaine metabolite, which the 27-year-old from Aurora, Ont., says s...