Friday, April 6 - The Second Day of Dressage

Friday morning dawned cold and sunny; however, the sun was quickly frightened away by clouds and a low temperature of 28 degrees which brought a white frost to central North Carolina. The temperatures never rose above 48 degrees in spite of the sun's return about noon time.

At the moment there is not much better news for Cross Country Day. The Weather Channel is blasting forth frost warnings for Friday night/Saturday morning and, just to make everything perfect, there is a 30% chance of rain. Break out the long underwear!

Jan Byyny was the first of the Friday riders to break into the top five in the CIC***-W, with her second ride in the section, the chestnut Waterfront. (Jan and Waterfront are pictured at the right.)

Seven rides later, on Friday, Amy Tryon, the Individual Bronze Medalist on Poggio II from the WEG last August, in Aachen, Germany, rode Le Samurai to slip into third place on a score of 43.4. (Amy and Le Samurai are pictured at the left below at the counter canter.)

The third rider to score well was Heidi White-Carty with the vereran Northern Spy. This pair landed in sixth place on 45.0. Interestingly all three of the top Friday riders to place on the Leader Board have represented the USA internationally.

Judges Jo Young (Canada), the president of the Ground Jury, and Wayne Quarles, Lexington, KY, managed to escape the oft-present disease of Fridayitis as Kim Severson and Jonathan Holling held on to their tie for first place with their Thursday rides, 3.1 faults ahead of Amy Tryon with Le Samurai, and 4.1 faults ahead of Jan Byyny and Waterfront.

The CIC***-W Cross Country is scheduled to begin at 12:38 PM on Saturday.

CIC***-W, Final Scores After Dressage Phase:

1T. Kim Severson, Winsome Adante - 40.3
1T. Jonathan Holling, Lion King II - 40.3
3. Amy Tryon, Le Samurai - 43.4
4. Jan Byyny, Waterfront - 44.4
5. Becky Holder, Courageous Comet - 44.7
6. Heidi White-Carty, Northern Spy - 45.0 (Heidi and Northern Spy are pictured at the right. Note the Fork Barn in the background.)
7. Loreen Kay, Russian - 46.3
8. Phillip Dutton, Connaught - 46.6
9. Karen O'Connor, Upstage - 47.8
10.Will Faudree, Antigua - 48.4
(33 competitors) (Those written in green competed on Friday.)

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OI Section "B" Leader Board:

1T. Samantha Taylor, Lucinda II - 30.3
1T. Karen O'Connor, Hugh Knows - 30.3
3. Buck Davidson, King Billy - 34.8
4T. Ann Glaus, Rehy Lux - 35.5
4T. Ralph Holstein, Arctic Dancer - 35.5
6T. Michael Robbins, Briscoe Bay - 35.9
6T. Chris Hitchcock, Buck Naked - 35.9

OI Section "C" Leader Board:

1. Megan Correia-Bittner, Anyway - 27.9
2. Peter Green, Evening Shade - 29.3
3T. Clark Montgomery, Up Spirit - 29.7
3T. Andrea Leatherman, Mensa - 29.7
5. Darren Chiacchia, Tragumna - 30.3
6. Holly Hepp, Benwald - 31.7

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Editor's Note: Since The Fork web site apparently contains no Saturday Start Times, perhaps it will help some of you to know the approximate Cross Country schedule:

OI/Section "A" Starts at 9:00 AM

OI/ Section "B" Starts at 9:50 AM

OI/Section "C" Starts at 10:36 AM

OI Section"D" Starts at 11:28 AM

CIC***-W Starts at 12:38 PM

CIC*** Starts at 2:35 PM

Advanced Starts at 4:13 PM

The Preliminary Sections do their Cross Country on Sunday starting at approximately 9:34 AM