The second flight of eventers took to the dressage arena at TIEC this morning, trying to better Julia Krajewski of Germany and Chipmunk FRH’s astounding score of 19.9pp posted yesterday.
Canada’s third team members, Jessica Phoenix and the international veteran Pavarotti, had a pleasant, steady test marred only by a couple of over-exuberant changes of lead which earned them a score of 33.0pp and 50th spot at the end of the day.
“Pavarotti really had his game face on today,” said Phoenix, 34, of Uxbridge, ON. “He felt amazing in his trot work; I thought his walk was the best ever. He was really good in the canter work. He’s feeling pretty fit, so his changes didn’t quite come off the way we had worked through them. But other than that he couldn’t have been any better, it was a solid test.”