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Twin Rivers results & 'thumbs up' E-mail
Written by Maggie Weems   
Monday, 05 March 2007

No faults at all for the organizers and their staff. Double thumbs up on the Gordon Birsch kegs and Zack the D.J.'s excellent music choices. The rumors of a spontaneous jumping competition across the tables and table dancing were all confirmed. Certain advanced competitors were seen leading the charge as they had through the entire competition. Twin Rivers competitors' party has now officially become a serious threat to Copper Meadows long standing ownership of "Best Of" competitors' parties on the West Coast.

The Young Rider Pancake Breakfast was a success. Celebrity chef Derek di Grazia and his amazing sous chefs made waiting in line for a short stack the place to be at 7 a.m.

The Front Office advised that in the future all queries and requests for miracles will be honored, if not previously covered by the USEA and USEF Rules, Handbooks, Omnibus or program, but only in the case of those who appear in front of her singing Sweet Home Alabama, out loud and in tune. Moving mis-delivered bales of shavings is also just under Washing Windows in the list of things regretfully not covered by any song choice.

Advanced Division:
Gina Miles and McKinlaigh finished on their dressage score. No other horse in the division had a double clear cross country round, and only Shannon Lilley and Seacrest had the only other double clear stadium jumping round, although Grant Hemingway and Nieco missed by just one time penalty point on Sunday.

Intermediate Division:
Open Intermediate was a tremendously exciting and competitive division throughout the weekend. Leila Lucas and Mandolin's Tune moved up from second place after dressage to use one of their three rails on Sunday to hold on to first place. Jessica Rice and I'm So Brite moved up from 12th after dressage to 2nd with brilliant jumping rounds. Jessica was one of only two competitors to have a faultless Stadium round and was only 3 seconds slow of perfect cross-country. Andrea Baxter and Estrella also had a faultless Sunday jumping performance. Out of the 10 top finishers on Sunday, only three had appeared to be in the running after dressage and only 6 appeared in the top ten after cross country.

Open Preliminary Division:
Kelly Prather and Amadeus were perfect all weekend and finished on their dressage score of 27.4.

Young Rider Open Preliminary Division
Jamie Lawrence and Malik won YROP on their dressage score of 35.2. In between fundraising, there were a number of excellent jumping rounds among the YRs: in addition to Jamie, Morgan Roundtree and Sherwood, Tara McKenna Polkabla and Current Leader, Ashley Anderson and Saturday Night Live had perfect jumping weekends. Honorable mentions to Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister (2.8 time penalties cross country), Nina Moody and Gaelic Blessing (2.4 time penalties), Allegra Aiuto and Harley (1 time penalty in Stadium) who were nearly faultless.

Preliminary Rider Division:
First place to Wrin Wiley and Killian III, second Kate Gillespie on Renegade Reno.

Open Training Division:
First Place to Josh Barnacle and Leap of Faith; second place honors to Morgan Roundtree on Bonza Twist of Fate.

Andrew Tempkin won the award for lowest dressage score of the event

 
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