By KENNETH J. BRADDICK
WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 20, 2025–Kasey Perry-Glass and Heartbeat W.P. won the Global Dressage Festival CDI3* Grand Prix Thursday, the first international victory in their two-year partnership.
Kasey, of Wellington and the 13-year-old KWPN gelding were awarded 70.804% in the first CDI competition for the pair since showing in Germany last June.
Kasey rode Dublet on the USA 2016 Olympic bronze medal team and the 2018 World Games silver medal squad.
“My partnership with Heartbeat is building and his heart is the biggest piece about him,” Kasey said after the ride.
“And it’s just fitting that his name is Heart, Heartbeat, and he speaks loudly and I love that about him and I couldn’t have asked for a better next Grand Prix horse.”
The best part of the ride was going in with confidence.
“I know that’s not really a piece of the test, but it is,” she said, as well as the passage-piaffe tour that she described as “world class.”
“He got a little hot, which is actually really good because I felt like my impressions of him last year were he was a bit more reserved and I’m actually trying to embrace the fact that he loves to show and he gets hot. So I think that was a huge plus for him and being able to manage it, because I’m small and he’s really big. So that’s a hard piece for me. But I think that he really tried to stay with me the whole test but kept that power.
“Honing in on that is our biggest goal, and I felt like today he was way more confident in it. It’s still a work in progress, but he’s trusting me more and more in the ring.
“I think a lot of that comes with confidence and being confident in the fact that I can work through anything with him. And I think that comes with taking my time alone with him and then sprinkling training in with other people.”
Over the summer, she said, she worked with Allison Brock and Adrienne Lyle, fellow U.S. Olympians.
Results:
| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | H | C | M | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Kasey Perry-Glass (USA)
Heartbeat W.P.
|
70.804% | 71.304 | 69.348 | 71.196 | 71.087 | 71.087 |
| 2. |
Susan Pape (GBR)
Harmony’s Giulilanta
|
70.282% | 69.348 | 68.804 | 69.565 | 71.304 | 72.391 |
| 3. |
Benjamin Ebeling (USA)
Bellena
|
69.631% | 68.152 | 69.022 | 70.109 | 71.957 | 68.913 |
| 4. |
Katherine Bateson Chandler (USA)
Haute Couture
|
68.435% | 66.630 | 69.348 | 69.674 | 70.761 | 65.761 |
| 5. |
Pablo Gómez Molina (ESP)
Ulises de Ymas
|
67.413% | 67.174 | 67.609 | 69.674 | 66.522 | 66.087 |
| 6. |
Kiichi Harada (JPN)
Impression
|
66.587% | 67.717 | 66.522 | 68.370 | 67.391 | 62.935 |
| 7. |
Karen Lipp (USA)
Infinity
|
64.413% | 63.370 | 65.543 | 63.913 | 65.109 | 64.130 |
| 8. |
Caroline Roffman (USA)
Libertee
|
63.239% | 62.065 | 64.130 | 61.304 | 64.130 | 64.565 |
| 9. |
Amy Bradley (USA)
Quileute CCW
|
63.087% | 62.609 | 64.022 | 64.348 | 59.457 | 65.000 |
| 10. |
Holger Bechtloff (USA)
Ferrari
|
61.196% | 59.348 | 61.196 | 61.957 | 60.870 | 62.609 |
| 11. |
Meagan Davis (USA)
Toronto Lightfoot
|
60.739% | 58.478 | 61.304 | 62.717 | 60.326 | 60.870 |
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