Will Coleman and Nevada Bay jumping for the win
(1) Will Coleman and Nevada Bay jumped a double-clear to win the Bromont CCI3*. Will was placed third going into the show jumping, but Jessica Phoenix and Kim Severson both had rails. Jessica pulled one rail by getting a little deep in a combination. Kim pulled three rails, in what was a much improved round from two months ago at Rolex, where they had a stop.
1. Will Coleman and Nevada Bay +0 = 59.0
2. Rebecca Howard and Riddle Master +0 = 59.4
3. Jessica Phoenix and Exponential +4= 61.6
4. Kim Severson and Tipperay Liadhnan +12 = 61.8
5. Buck and Mar de Amor +4 = 71.0
6. Jil Walton and My Sedona +0 = 73.8
7. Ashley Kehoe and Mazetto +9 = 75.2
8. John Williams and Sweepea Dean +12 = 75.8
9. Jennifer Simmons and JB's Star +8 = 79.6
10. Mikki Kuchta and Balmoral Tim Tram +16 = 80.2
Monday update: the reason that all the link results are all photos (.jpeg) is that scores were not posted online until late Sunday. The best I could do was taking a picture of the results page and uploading it. Pretty simple, but it worked.
Full official results are now available in Excel format at the Bromont website
(2) Since Bromont was Nevada Bay's first CCI3*, Will took his time around the XC, but he made up for the difference with superior dressage and show jumping phases. Will and Nevada Bay had the best combined test score (46.6) by over 8 points (Paddy: 55.4).
(3) With Canadians Rebecca Howard and Jessica Phoenix finishing second and third respectively, Canadian eventing defended it's home turf well this weekend. Canada only started 5 competitors in the CCI3* and two of them finished in the top 3. With fantastic Rolex performances from multiple riders, Canadian selectors have the luxury of needing to make some tough choices this fall.
(4) Will Coleman has has a tough spring up until Brmont by breaking his collar bone and then having to withdraw Twizzel from Luhmuhlen. The Bromont win shows that Will has developed a good string of horses that is deep enough to weather the inevitable setbacks of eventing.
(5) There were only 3 double-clears in the CCI3* show jumping--Nevada Bay, Rebecca Howard with Riddle Master, and Jil Walton and My Sedona.
(6) Jessica Phoenix and Exponential had the lowest 3* weekend jumping total, adding just the one rail to their dressage score. Rebecca Howard and Riddle master added 4.8 during the weekend.
(7) The US started the weekend with 4 WEG applicants at Bromont. Only Sweepea Dean and Tipperary Liadhnan finished the weekend, and both had three rails today. Tomorrow morning the US team vets will likely look at Paddy, Sweepea Dean, and several developing horses.
(8) Sweepea Dean won the best conditioned horse award.
(9) Thank you to all the volunteers, organizers, and everyone else in Canada who made our time at Bromont a lovely experience! You can add me to the list of US eventers returning from Bromont who can't wait to come back next year.
We will be driving back home through the night aboard Bromont One. I don't think I will blog during this drive, but we will have more from Bromont and a new week of ridiculousness on Eventing Nation starting bright and early tomorrow.
Now, more than ever, go eventing.
Improved? Yes. But paddy still had a couple of good rubs that could have been rails and Bromont is only a 3* and much more sedate atmosphere. I don't see this having much impact on WEG selection. Or even as much of a building block for the future.