OCALA, Florida, Dec. 12, 2024–Anna Marek rode her World Cup mount Fayvel to victory in the World Equestrian Center CDI3* Grand Prix Thursday, the first international event for the partnership since returning from Europe in summer.
Anna of the area community of Dunnellon and the 14-year-old KWPN gelding scored 70.022% for the win.
Anna, short-listed for the Paris Olympic team on Fire Fly, said she is aiming this year for the newly created $250,000 U.S. Open, with qualifiers across the country for the final in California next December.
She started to ride Fayvel full-time a year ago.
“It just takes time to kind of go in there and make it feel like it’s easy and I can kind of think and go through things the best that he can do,” Anna said. “So today, the things that I was working on, it worked. And, you know, of course there’s always places where you want to do better, but overall I was really happy with him today.”
Tina Konyot of Wellington, Florida on Grover, 10-year-old KWPN gelding, was runner-up on 69.478% in the pair’s fourth international Grand Prix event since moving up from Medium Tour early this year.
Results:
| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | H | C | M | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Anna Marek (USA)
Fayvel
|
70.022% | 71.957 | 67.283 | 68.261 | 72.174 | 70.435 |
| 2. |
Tina Konyot (USA)
Grover
|
69.478% | 69.457 | 70.109 | 66.739 | 71.957 | 69.130 |
| 3. |
Kevin Kohmann (USA)
Giulietta
|
66.522% | 67.935 | 65.761 | 66.522 | 65.978 | 66.413 |
| 4. |
Pablo Gómez Molina (ESP)
Servus Ymas
|
65.413% | 68.587 | 64.783 | 61.739 | 66.630 | 65.326 |
| 5. |
Eline Eckroth (USA)
Daphne
|
61.630% | 62.717 | 61.630 | 58.478 | 62.609 | 62.717 |
| 6. |
Shelly Francis (USA)
Dante
|
57.174% | 58.913 | 57.391 | 55.435 | 58.913 | 55.217 |
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