Sara Schulman Tops the U252*-L to Wrap Up the MARS Bromont CCI 2023.
America’s Phillip Dutton currently sits at number 12 in the world on the Eventing world rankings list, is a veteran of seven Olympic Games and FEI World Equestrian Games (each), and is pretty darn happy that (good friend) and fellow Olympian Boyd Martin didn’t have a horse in the CCI4-L at this year’s MARS Bromont CCI. Dutton topped the weekend’s marquee event, the CCI4-L with Azure, owned by Anne, Caroline, and Michael Moran. Together for about a year, the pair admittedly still have work to do on their dressage phase (placed 15th after dressage, they rocketed up into first after a clean cross-country round on Saturday adding just 0.4 penalties for time.) They left the poles in the cups today over the Marc Donovan designed stadium jumping course, adding another 0.4 penalties for exceeding the time allowed, to finish at the top of the leaderboard on a final score of 37.2.
Dutton also finished second (to Boyd) in the CCI2-L with Fernhill Shutterfly, as well as second in the CCI4-S (to Boyd) with his Tokyo Olympic horse Z. Finishing second to Dutton in the CCI4-L was Arielle Aharoni (USA) with Dutch Times. A veteran of the MARS Bromont Rising program in 2019, they jumped double-clear Sunday afternoon, having added only time to their dressage score on Saturday’s cross-country phase. They finished on an overall score of 41.3. Remarkably, the overall standings from first through 13th did not change at all from where they were following the cross-country phase. Going into the ring second to last (you show jump in the reverse order of standing) Aharoni had to wait all day through all of the other divisions and nearly the entire CCI4-L for her turn — a position she’d not been in before.
Photo © Cealy Tetley – Phillip Dutton (USA) and Azure captured the CCI4*-L following Sunday’s final showjumping phase at the MARS Bromont CCI | Press release MARS Bromont CCI.
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