Alice Tarjan & Donatella, USA Developing Grand Prix Champion, Win National Grand Prix at Loxahatchee’s White Fences

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Alice Tarjan and Donatella. File photo. © 2020 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

LOXAHATCHEE, Florida, Dec. 12, 2020–Alice Tarjan and Donatella M won the national Grand Prix at White Fences Equestrian Center Saturday in their first competitions since capturing the U.S. Developing Grand Prix Championship four months ago.

Alice, who rides as an adult amateur, was awarded 75.435% for the victory on Donatella with Anne Gribbons, former U.S. team coach, second on Let’s Dance on 73.370% and Sarah Lockman on her Pan American Games gold medal mount First Apple third on 71.413%.

Alice of Frenchtown, New Jersey and the nine-year-old Oldenburg mare by Fürstenball has qualified for the Lövsta Future Challenge developing Grand Prix final that was deferred to January from last winter’s Global Dressage Festival because of the coronavirus pandemic.