FEI
World Cup Eventing, Pau, France
3:30
PM: The following results are now available:
1. Linda Algotsson (SWE)
Stand By Me - 38.0
2. Andrew Nicholson (NZL) Fenico - 51.6
3. Gina Miles,
McKinlaigh - 53.0
4. Peter Thomsen (GER), Bordou - 54.4
5. Pascal Leroy
(FRA), Eersteling Du Leou - 57.1
6. Henri Bernard (FRA), Fleuron Des Pres
- 60.7
According
to Alan Smith in the Monday, October 27th London Telegraph, no Brits finished.
This includes Willaim Fox-Pitt and Stunning and Polly Stockton riding Oscar, who
had been tied for 3rd after the Dressage Phase.
Clare
Chamberlayne's Headley Kingdom severed ligaments in a front leg, "... so
badly that following an examination at a clinic he was put down." Alan Smith,
London Telegraph.
Pan
American Championship CCI***
Darren
Chiacchia, riding as a USET Official Individual, rose from 2nd place after Cross
Country, when the leader, David O'Connor, was injured and hospitalized while riding
in the Fair Hill International CCI Saturday afternoon. Darren and 
Windfall
2 jumped one of only two double clears from 19 entries to win the Pan American
Championship Gold Medal, on a score of 52.4. (Darrenand Windfall are pictured
at right.) (The other double clear was ridden by Paulo Eduardo Limongi Pacheco
of Brazil with Planetarius Jmen.)
Darren
said of Windfall, "He's going for a rest right now. In fact he's going to
Brendan Furlong's facility. We'll be fast and furiously gathering semen for next
year."
Karen
O'Connor, also riding as an Official Indivual, had just won the Fair Hill International
CCI*** in the morning. She placed 2nd, for the Silver Medal, riding Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Thompson's Joker's Wild. The pair had one rail down for a final score
of 59.0. It is interesting to note that the Thompson's also owned Karen's first
winner at Fair Hill, back in 1989. (Karen and Joker's 
Wild
are pictured at left during the Victory Gallop.)
Jan
Thompson, who rode as a member of the USET's Gold Medal Team, finished third on
the strength of a 4 jumping fault, no time fault round with her parents' Shared
Dreams, for a final score of 62.4. Jan said about her individual Bronze Medal,
"It's been a lifetime of hard work. It's really fantastic! What a great support
crew the US(ET) has! It's been a huge honor for me!" (Jan and Shared Dreams
are pictured at right below.)
The
USET won the Team Gold with 190 faults. Canada won the Team Silver on a score
of 325 faults. This is the first time that Canada has finished a team at an International
Championship since 1994, at The World Championships at The Hague, The Netherlands.
Their Silver Medal qualified Canada for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, 
Greece.
Brazil won the Bronze Medal on a score of 1394.4 faults.
Mike
Winter, the top scoring Canadian, said, "I can't believe everything came
together. It was a bit nerve wracking in camp with only four horses. We have had
great support: Jimmy Wofford, our Coach; Greg Paul our Chef (d'Equipe); Susan
Edwards, our Head Groom; Shannon Kinsley, my groom; and Emeline Loughlin, who
owns my horse." (Mike Winter is pictured below left wearing his Team Silver
Medal.)
Bobby
Costello said of the Team Gold Medal, "People expected us to win. When it
comes right down to it, we have to go out there and perform the tests and ride
(the courses). We still have to produce."
Karen said, "This
competition has been a 
huge
help in (FEI) Group 4. There has been a dialogue between the US and other countries."
The
Leader Board for Individuals in the Pan American Championship was as follows:
Gold
Medal - Darren Chiacchia (USA), Windfall 2 - 52.4
Silver Medal - Karen O'Connor
(USA), Joker's Wild - 59.0
Bronze Medal - Jan Thompson (USA), Shared Dreams
- 62.4
4th - Stephen Bradley (USA), Brandenburg's Joshua - 62.6
5th -
Ashley MacVaugh (USA), All's Fair - 63.2
6th - Will Faudree (USA), Antigua
- 65.0
7th - Robert Costello (USA), Dalliance - 70.8
8th - Nathalie Bouckaert
(USA), Westfarthing - 74.2
9th - Holly Hepp (USA), Lester Piggott - 74.6
10th - Lynn Symansky (USA), No It Tissant - 86.4
11th - Mike Winter (CAN),
Balista - 92.8
Karen
spoke a little bit about David's fall on Saturday. "The Organizing Committee
was unbeliveably helpful. I was just finishing up Phase "C", when I
heard Brian (the announcer), who is David's brother, say there was a hold on Course
because of David's fall. They patched me through by cell phone to David, who was
still on the ground, while I was (in the "D" Box) getting ready to go
on Cross Country. That typifies this sport. We all support each other."
Click
here to read the Pan Am Cross Country story
Click
here to read the Fair Hill International Show Jumping story
