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OCALA, Florida, May 26, 2023–Katherine Bateson Chandler competing Haute Couture in only the second international event in more than a year won the World Equestrian Center CDI3* Grand Prix Friday.

Katherine of Wellington, Florida and the 11-year-old KWPN mare were awarded 70.848% for the pair’s first win, the only one in the lineup of 18 combinations in the Grand Prix for the Special to score at least 70%.

The mare was acquired by Jennifer Huber and Katherine at the beginning of 2022. The horse was developed by Dinja van Liere and competed for the Netherlands including the 2021 European Championships.

“It’s a little bit a different style of riding,” Katherine said, “so I actually ended up going to Dinja for a couple of months in Europe because Dinja knows her well and she can translate for us until we start speaking the same language. Dinja is an incredible person and amazingly supportive. I’m very, very lucky to have an incredible team behind me.

“We are strengthening our partnership, and it’s a trust thing, especially with a mare. She is scary intelligent. The things that she knows is amazing. I’m always playing to that, that I trust her and she knows what she’s doing and playing to her mental game. I was trying to be a little bit too much of her friend in the beginning because that’s my nature. I knew that I had to assert myself and tell her that I’m the human that’s in charge in a good way so that she trusts me as well. That was our learning curve, and I feel like we’re getting there.”

The only previous international competition for Katherine on Haute Couture was at Wellington’s Global Dressage Festival in March last year, but the pair has competed nationally.

Jan Ebeling on Jubi’s Tenacity, 13-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding, was runner-up on 69.935%.

Katie Duerrhammer on the 12-year-old Westfalen gelding Paxton were third on 69.109%.

Results:

CDI3* Grand Prix for Special

Rank	Competitor	Score	E	H	C	M	B
1.	Katherine Bateson Chandler (USA) Haute Couture	70.848%	69.783	71.522	70.761	71.413	70.761
2.	Jan Ebeling (USA) Jubi’s Tenacity	69.935%	67.500	70.109	70.435	70.217	71.413
3.	Katie Duerrhammer (USA) Paxton	69.109%	69.022	68.152	68.696	70.000	69.674
4.	Anna Marek (USA) Fire Fly	68.978%	70.109	69.565	68.696	67.717	68.804
5.	Kerrigan Gluch (USA) Mejorano HGF	68.500%	66.413	69.674	69.348	68.913	68.152
6.	Benjamin Ebeling (USA) Indeed	67.935%	68.587	67.500	68.478	66.522	68.587
7.	Lehua Custer (USA) F.J. Ramzes	67.848%	68.043	66.739	68.587	68.152	67.717
8.	Bianca Berktold (USA) Imperial	66.739%	66.739	65.978	66.196	66.957	67.826
9.	Kevin Kohmann (USA) Inshallah	66.326%	64.783	66.957	67.283	65.435	67.174
10.	Rakeya Moussa (CAN) Davidoff V.H. Trichelhof	66.239%	64.783	66.957	66.304	65.000	68.152
11.	Patricia Ferrando (VEN) Elvis	66.043%	64.022	66.304	66.848	67.717	65.326
12.	Virginia Yarur (CHI) Ronaldo	65.956%	66.630	67.174	66.304	65.109	64.565
13.	Tiago Ernesto (POR) Hobbit Interagro	65.565%	64.565	66.522	64.674	64.674	67.391
14.	Nancy Smith (USA) Eragon VO	64.804%	64.674	65.652	63.478	64.565	65.652
15.	Mikala Münter (USA) Skyfall	62.587%	64.239	62.174	63.370	61.630	61.522
16.	Nora Batchelder (USA) Faro SQF	62.457%	62.609	63.804	64.783	61.739	59.348
17.	Roberta Foster (BAR) Chichic	59.652%	59.891	63.043	58.913	58.913	57.500
18.	Carolin Mallmann (URU) Grison	58.826%	59.783	58.370	58.913	57.391	59.674
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