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What a Jump-Off!

July 2, 2010

SPRUCE MEADOWS, Calgary, AB --- It wasn’t a pretty win but Leslie Howard of the United States will take it. The 2010 edition of the Duncan Ross Cup will certainly be remembered after a tough first round and a wild jump-off.

There were 32 horse/rider combinations to take on the 1.45m Anthony D’Ambrosio (USA), designed course. It featured 16 jumping efforts over 530 metres with a time allowed of 80 seconds. It was a tough test for the international entry that featured Olympic, World and World Cup champions.

Only two were able to master the difficult course to move on to the jump-off round, Howard and Canada’s Yann Candele. Candele would be the first to take on the jump-off with his 10 year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding, Azzaro Van’T Hagenhof.

The jump-off course was fairly unassuming, with 8 jumping efforts, over a course of 300 metres. Candele took off around the course with speed. To beat the Queen of Speed, you can’t play it safe. Perhaps safety would have been better as Candele fell of at fence 4a, possibly handing the victory to Howard.

All Howard had to do was stay on, but Raimond W had other plans, stopping at that same fence 4a. “He hit the second fence and he’s so careful that I knew we were in trouble,” said Howard. “So I started madly kicking, so he got mad at me and stopped.”

The pair managed to put their differences aside, but not without penalty, coming home in a time of 74.66 seconds with 38 jumping faults. If all she had to do was stay on, Howard managed, but did not make it look easy in tonight’s Duncan Ross Cup.

Duncan Ross Cup top 10 –

1- Leslie Howard USA Raimond W

2- Yann Candele CAN Azzaro Van’T Hagenhof

3- Nicolas Pizarro MEX Abano

4- Jennifer Crooks IRL SF Uryadi

5- Pablo Barrios VEN G&C Lagran

6- Eric Lamaze CAN Coriana Van Klapscheut

7- Nick Dello Joio USA Malcolm

8- Ian Millar CAN Star Power

9- Saer Coulter USA Cats Are Grey

10- Karen Cudmore CAN Ceonto

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