By KENNETH J. BRADDICK
WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 26, 2026–Meagan Davis rode Toronto Lightfoot to a personal best score Thursday to win the Global Dressage Festival CDI4* Grand Prix, the fourth Big Tour victory for the American partnership so far this year.
Meagan and the 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding scored 72.108% that was the third highest Grand Prix result for an active American partnership in the past 12 months–behind Christian Simonson on Indian Rock and Marcus Orlob on Jane.
The win for Meagan and Toronto, just 17 months into their Big Tour career, came the same day that Endel Ots and Zen Elite’s Bohemian claimed victory in the CDI3* Grand Prix on 69.261%. It was the pair’s first international competition since being reserve for the U.S. team at the Paris Olympics almost two years ago.
Adrienne Lyle in her first international outing on the 10-year-old Hussmanns Topgun was awarded 71.872% to win the CDI1* Prix St. Georges.
Meagan of neighboring Loxahatchee said of her biggest win on Toronto owned by Scott Durkin, “Today we had true power in the test and that was really exciting to feel those hind legs up underneath my seat bones and ready whenever I asked. There was more power which is what we’ve been working towards every time we enter that ring, figuring out how we add the next component. And we had the energy, we had the hind leg and we had the softness over the top line.”
The immediate hope is to be selected for the U.S. Nations Cup team in Wellington Mar. 18-22 and then compete in the U.S. Grand Prix Championships in Ocala, Florida May 13-17. There, she hopes to become one of eight rider and horse combinations chosen to go to Europe ahead of the World Championships in Aachen, Germany, in August. If selected for Europe it will be Meagan’s first time as a senior for the rider, aged 36 to ride for the U.S. in Europe.
Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén, Sweden’s seven-time Olympian, was runner-up in the CDI4* on the 14-year-old Hyatt on a personal best 71.544%.
Endel Ots, based in Wellington, said of the ride on Bohemian, “You know, after two years and not being in there, I was really happy with him. He had a lot of gas. We increased his grain to be a little bit more energetic.
“He was like almost a little bit spooky and looky in there. And so I had a lot of power. I had a little hard time kind of directing it, positioning him in the places I’d want to, but I was really happy with his effort. He really tried.”
Endel, too, wants to compete in the Grand Prix national championship and “I really would like to do the World Games.”
The difference between 2024 and 2026, he said, “I think I felt a lot of pressure in 2024, and 2026 I’m really trying to have fun and really enjoy the time with him.”
Christian Simonson on the 16-year-old Fleau de Baian placed second on 69.065%.
Adrienne Lyle, a three-time Olympian for the U.S. including silver medal at the Tokyo Games, said it has been “a very slow build-up process” but “really fun” to get Topgun into the CDI arena for the first time.
“I’d love to get him to Europe, possibly this summer and get some exposure over there and keep getting him in the big environments while we keep kind of slowly picking away at the Grand Prix stuff with him,” she said of the Totilas offspring.
“I’ve said it his whole career, he’s a very powerful horse, he’s a very elastic horse, but his challenge has been that sometimes he can overpower himself and tension slips in, so that’s been our biggest goal is just to bring him along to get rid of the tension and build the strength and then he’ll tell us when he’s ready to move to the next step.”
Results:
| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | H | C | M | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Meagan Davis (USA)
Toronto Lightfoot
|
72.108% | 70.217 | 71.739 | 74.891 | 74.565 | 69.130 |
| 2. |
Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén (SWE)
Hyatt
|
71.544% | 71.196 | 72.065 | 71.087 | 73.696 | 69.674 |
| 3. |
Ashley Holzer (USA)
Hawtins San Floriana
|
68.478% | 66.522 | 70.326 | 69.891 | 70.326 | 65.326 |
| 4. |
Jennifer Williams (USA)
Joppe K
|
68.370% | 66.957 | 68.370 | 70.652 | 69.457 | 66.413 |
| 5. |
Michael Klimke (GER)
Harmony’s Fado
|
67.152% | 66.739 | 66.413 | 68.261 | 68.587 | 65.761 |
| 6. |
Jennifer Hoffmann (USA)
Rondoro Noblesse
|
65.239% | 63.587 | 66.087 | 66.848 | 66.196 | 63.478 |
| 7. |
Shelly Francis (USA)
Dante
|
64.348% | 65.761 | 65.217 | 65.652 | 63.804 | 61.304 |
| 8. |
Susan Dutta (USA)
Don Design DC
|
63.783% | 62.565 | 63.870 | 66.478 | 64.413 | 61.587 |
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| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | H | C | M | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Endel Ots (USA)
Zen Elite’s Bohemian
|
69.261% | 70.978 | 70.978 | 67.935 | 70.217 | 66.196 |
| 2. |
Christian Simonson (USA)
Fleau de Baian
|
69.065% | 71.848 | 67.609 | 67.609 | 68.804 | 69.457 |
| 3. |
Tina Konyot (USA)
Grover
|
68.913% | 71.739 | 69.783 | 66.848 | 68.043 | 68.152 |
| 4. |
Jane Karol (USA)
Vioretta
|
68.391% | 70.543 | 66.304 | 69.239 | 67.391 | 68.478 |
| 5. |
Michael Klimke (GER)
Harmony’s Dante’s Peak
|
67.739% | 67.065 | 70.978 | 67.609 | 66.957 | 66.087 |
| 6. |
Emma Caecilia Lienert (GER)
Windermere J’Obei W
|
67.543% | 67.717 | 66.739 | 68.043 | 67.717 | 67.500 |
| 7. |
Micah Deligdish (ISR)
Carpe Diem De Massa
|
67.522% | 67.391 | 67.174 | 66.739 | 67.935 | 68.370 |
| 8. |
Ali Potasky (USA)
Inxs
|
67.196% | 68.478 | 67.609 | 63.478 | 68.587 | 67.826 |
| 9. |
Katherine Bateson Chandler (USA)
Haute Couture
|
65.587% | 66.957 | 65.870 | 63.261 | 67.609 | 64.239 |
| 10. |
Leonardo Antonio Godoy (ARG)
Marques Do Lis
|
64.522% | 66.196 | 65.000 | 63.152 | 65.652 | 62.609 |
| 11. |
Denielle Gallagher (CAN)
Come Back de Massa
|
63.826% | 65.761 | 64.457 | 59.891 | 64.239 | 64.783 |
| 12. |
Shelly Francis (USA)
Estero
|
61.935% | 61.522 | 62.174 | 60.543 | 64.565 | 60.870 |
| EL |
Katrina Sadis (USA)
Belloona
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| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | C | M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Adrienne Lyle (USA)
Hussmanns Topgun
|
71.872% | 71.176 | 70.588 | 73.853 |
| 2. |
Laurence Blais Tétreault (CAN)
Lennon
|
69.314% | 69.412 | 68.529 | 70.000 |
| 3. |
Natalia Bacariza Danguillecourt (ESP)
Romántico Ymas
|
68.775% | 69.118 | 68.235 | 68.971 |
| 4. |
Brittany Burson (USA)
Fiorenza
|
67.745% | 66.912 | 68.382 | 67.941 |
| 5. |
Zhanzhao Gu (CHN)
Shakespeare 82
|
67.598% | 68.529 | 68.235 | 66.029 |
| 6. |
Susan Dutta (USA)
Diamond Royal DC
|
67.451% | 65.882 | 68.382 | 68.088 |
| 7. |
Akiko Yamazaki (USA)
Grey C Carrus
|
65.637% | 65.588 | 65.882 | 65.441 |
| 8. |
Arlene Full Page (USA)
Bon Bijou
|
65.098% | 63.971 | 66.176 | 65.147 |
| 9. |
Kelly Layne (USA)
Bit of Ritz
|
64.853% | 65.147 | 64.118 | 65.294 |
| 10. |
Sven Steffens-Smienk (CAN)
Candoit’s Bentayga
|
64.510% | 65.735 | 61.176 | 66.618 |
| 11. |
Luuk Mourits (NED)
Harmony’s Sarotti OLD
|
64.265% | 62.941 | 63.382 | 66.471 |
| 12. |
Arlene Full Page (USA)
Jimagine De Massa
|
62.500% | 60.735 | 61.029 | 65.735 |
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