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Another victory for David Marcus in GPS

May 20, 2012

David Marcus and Chrevi’s Capital took a giant leap Saturday to claim a place on his new nation’s Olympic team when the pair won the Canada Classic CDI3* Olympic Grand Prix Special with the highest score of any Canadian so far in qualifying for the Games in London this summer.

The pair scored 72.356 per cent to surpass the results for the Special of Canada’s three-time Olympian Ashley Holzer who leads the Canadian team rankings with her 2008 Beijing mount Pop Art and her new star, Breaking Dawn, as well as all the other combinations pursuing the goal of being one of the three members of the Canadian team. A squad of four combinations is likely to go to Europe, based on results, ahead of the Games.

Jacqueline Brooks and D Niro, who were ranked behind only Ashley on her two horses before this weekend, were second in the Special on 69.758 per cent.

Cesar Parra, seeking an invitation to the U.S. selection trials aboard Van the Man, was third on 66.644 per cent. Coupled with his Grand Prix result and a scoe from a previous competition, that may leave him short of his goal. But there is one competition of qualifying to go–the pair are entered in a CDI3* in New Jersey next weekend.

Source Dressage-News