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Victory marks triumphant return for Beerbaum

Feb 5, 2013

It was a triumphant return to Southern California for Germany's Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Cantano, owned by Octavia Farms, LLC, with a win in Sunday's $30,000 SmartPak Grand Prix, presented by Zoetis. The pair topped a field of 42 entries and produced the fastest of two clears among eight jump-off contenders.

Indeed the trophy ceremony wound up a Team Beerbaum affair, as student Saer Coulter of Stanford, California, and Don VHP Z placed second with the afternoon's only other double-clear. Meredith's husband Markus Beerbaum finished third on Lancero. Both Coulter and Markus Beerbaum's horses are owned by the Coulter family's Copernicus Stables.

Fourth place went to San Marcos, California's, Michelle Parker riding Cross Creek Farms' Socrates de Midos, and fifth to Lane Clarke of Laguna Niguel, California, and Granville Equine's Casseur de Prix.

$30,000 SmartPak Grand Prix, presented by Zoetis

Place Horse Owner Rider Prize $ Rd 1 Faults JO Faults JO Time
1 Cantano Octavia Farms, LLC Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum  0 0 46.45
2 Don VHP Z Copernicus Stables, LLC Saer Coulter 0 0 50.73
3 Lancero Copernicus Stables, LLC Markus Beerbaum  0 4 46.96
4 Socrates de Midos Cross Creek Farms, Inc. Michelle Parker  0 4 47.64

5 Casseur de Prix Granville Equine Lane Clark  0 4 50.86
6 Rockford I The Dotson Family Paige Dotson  0 8 48.98
7 Terrific John Anderson John Anderson  0 8 66.99
8 Zamiro 16 Stone Ridge Farms, LLC Kara Chad  0 - -
9 Cassina 39 Fairway Farms Paige Beal-Andros  1 - -
10 Chello Z Josephina Nor Stables, LLC Josephina Nor Lantzman  1 - -

Source: Press release from HITS, Inc.