{"id":48511,"date":"2022-01-10T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/?p=48511"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:49:45","slug":"mclain-ward-sein-catoki-gewinnen-75-000-dollar-gp-in-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/mclain-ward-sein-catoki-gewinnen-75-000-dollar-gp-in-wellington\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening 2022 WEF Grand Prix Victory Goes to McLain Ward and Catoki"},"content":{"rendered":"Premiere week at the 2022 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) concluded on Sunday, January 9, with a highlight class of the week, the $75,000 Rosenbaum PLLC<\/a> Grand Prix. McLain Ward (USA) and Catoki took the victory in the class. Jumper, hunter, and equitation competition returns for WEF 1 on January 12-16, and WEF continues through April 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rosenbaum PLLC Grand Prix had 32 entries that contested a course set by Eric Hasbrouck (USA). Eight were clear to advance to the jump-off. First to return for the jump-off were Thursday\u2019s Adequan<\/a>\u00ae WEF Challenge Cup winners, Hector Florentino (DOM) and ABC Quantum Cruise, a 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding by OBOS Quality x Cruising owned by Wyndmont. They set the time to beat at 37.677 seconds with a clear round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThursday\u2019s win definitely set up for this jump-off,\u201d said Florentino. \u201cI\u2019m learning to ride this horse a little bit. He wants to go and be fast. Before, I wasn\u2019t sure if I could let him go because I didn\u2019t know if I could bring him back. We\u2019re starting to know each better, and I can let him open up now. He\u2019s coming back to me. I\u2019m very happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really very lucky because a couple months ago, I didn\u2019t have any horses to ride and now I have two,\u201d added Florentino. \u201cI need to thank Michael Dorman and Ronnie Beard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately following Florentino were Heather Caristo-Williams (USA) and Marciano MVF, owned by Stephanie Bulger. They were just off the pace in 38.339 seconds with a clear round, which left them in fourth place. Caristo-Williams was awarded with the Martha W. Jolicoeur Leading Lady Rider Award in memory of Dale Lawler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next into the ring were Michael Murphy and Catoki\u2019s Son Z. They squeaked into the lead in 37.642 seconds by three-hundredths of a second with no faults, which would hold up for second place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy originally had the ride on Catoki\u2019s Son Z in May. The horse was sold shortly thereafter but came back when the Ahearn family of Esperanza Imports LLC purchased the 13-year-old Zangersheide gelding at the end of the summer for Murphy to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing able to watch Hector go, I knew I had to go pretty fast,\u201d said Murphy of his jump-off plan. \u201cI think definitely McLain for sure got me \u2013 ok, everywhere \u2013 but especially to the vertical before the double [combination]. I got a little wider there, and he was tighter there. I was pretty happy with [my horse]. It was the best that he could do today with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four horses later in the jump-off, Ward and Catoki blazed through the jump-off in 36.008 seconds for victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with Catoki\u2019s unique way of going, he also has an unusual program for a top show jumper. The little horse last competed at the Washington International Horse Show in October, where he won the speed final and tied for the puissance victory, and then lived in a field until five days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a very strange program with Catoki because he\u2019s obviously very hot and very aggressive,\u201d explained Ward. \u201cHe\u2019s just purring now actually. He\u2019s just unfit enough to not be totally running away with me! He goes well in the program, and he\u2019s very happy. He was good in the class earlier in the week, and I thought he performed really well today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ward noted that Catoki follows a similar plan while in Wellington, enjoying turnout as much he can in the days that he is not at the horse show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce in a while we try to do a gymnastic, but it goes quite quickly,\u201d laughed Ward. \u201cHe has so much fire, so much adrenaline; he\u2019s such a competitor. That\u2019s the way we try to keep that under wraps. It\u2019s pretty remarkable. Along with his puissance win at Washington and that kind of program, it just goes to show his eagerness and bravery. He\u2019s a little lion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Ward\u2019s and Murphy\u2019s horses are by the same sire, Ward feels that \u201chis\u201d Catoki is \u201ca pretty unique model.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s pretty hard to explain and replicate it at that level, but they\u2019re \u2018blood\u2019 and fast and typically quite careful. I\u2019m sure those characteristics are there. As we always say, the mother plays a bit more of a role.\u201d ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Premiere week at the 2022 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) concluded on Sunday, January 9, with a highlight class of the week, the $75,000 Rosenbaum PLLC Grand Prix. McLain Ward (USA) and Catoki took the victory in the class. Jumper, hunter, and equitation competition returns for WEF 1 on January 12-16, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}