British Columbia rider Ali Ramsay and her mare Hermelien VD Hooghoeve won the first FEI event of the International Bromont, presented by the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement Supérieur du Québec.
A daunting course
Course designer Leopoldo Palacios’s (VEN) course comprised 13 obstacles for 16 efforts, including three double combinations. With 85 seconds of time allowed for the first round, the course proved to be difficult for the thirty-three registered duos. The last combination of two verticals proved especially daunting.
Only seven pairs qualified for the second round: young Canadian Ali Ramsay, with Hermelien VD Hooghoeve, Julia Madigan with Farfelu du Printemps and Jennifer Serek on her two mounts, DHI Zulu and Wicked respectively, Colombian riders Carlos Ramirez on Happy Wandor Vant Roosakker and Juan Manuel Gallego on Coulash Van de Broy Z, as well as American rider Nicholas Dello Joio with Contiki.