By Joanna Humphries From CIEF

The Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation (“CIEF”) held its second national dressage show of the season on the 31st of January at The Equestrian Center and Cayman Riding School respectively.

Judge, Amy Gimbel, from New Jersey, USA, presided over both venues. A total of 50 dressage tests were ridden throughout the day with the riders ages ranging from 9 years to adult. Most impressive was the number of adults who were either new to dressage or new to competing in a show. Most notably, Milly Serpell entered the arena again to compete, and won the adult high- point award with an incredible total score of 73.26%. The children’s high-point award went to Jenna Boucher, riding her new horse Edson Arantes MB, scoring 68.69%. Caroline Key, also a newcomer to the competition arena, was delighted to be able to ride her horse Iggy Pop in his first competition in over two years following injury. Caroline also won her Training Level 2 test with a score of 68.46%.

Winners of all tests were (in order of difficulty):

Third level Test 3: Kate Flett on Loris 7.

Second Level Test 1: Jessica Achstatter on Partenon

First Level Test 3: Tracey Surrey on Dusty First Level Test 2: Tracey Surrey on Dusty First Level Test 1 (adult): Kate Flett on Blue Ridge Dream On First Level Test 1 (child): Ashley van den Bol on Whindlass Training Level Test 3 (adult): Amara Thompson on Second Kiss Training Level Test 3 (child): Abbey Swartz on Fly By Me Training Level Test 2 (adult): Caroline Key on Iggy Pop Training Level Test 2 (child): Charli Milgate on Amarilla Training Level Test 1 (adult): Milly Serpell on Sunday’s Edition Training Level Test 1 (child): Jenna Boucher on Edson Arantes MB USDF Introductory C Test: Kayla Mannisto on Jitterbug USDF Introductory B Test: Grace Bostock on LucyAnna

The next national dressage show is scheduled for Sunday, March 6th and will be held at the Equestrian Center from 8:00am to noon, and Cayman Riding School starting at 2:00pm. Visitors are welcome and entry is free.

Full results are available on the CIEF’s website at: http://ciefcay.com/wp- content/uploads/2014/07/2016-01-31-National-Dressage-Show-Results.pdf