USA’s Christina Vinios & Folkestone Win Welington St. Georges to End European Domination of Global Small Tour

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Christina Vinios on Folkestone OLD. © 2016 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
Christina Vinios on Folkestone OLD. © 2016 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 11, 2016–Christina Vinios and her Folkestone OLD, the United States Intermediate champions, won the CDI5* Prix St. Georges Thursday with a personal best score that also ended European Small Tour domination at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival.

Christina of Wellington, Florida and the 10-year-old Oldenburg gelding scored 72.842 per cent for the win over Leida Collins-Strijk of the Netherlands on Don Tignanello in second on 71.579 per cent.

Leida and Germany’s Michael Klimke have dominated Small Tour at the first two CDIs of the seven-CDI winter circuit.