Sara Lieser and Coree Reuter

This weekend’s wet weather trend continued today, leading to a decision by the members of the ground jury to cancel the Grand Prix Special and Intermediaire I freestyle classes at the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions.

Kassandra Barteau knew how to win a young rider championship before she entered the ring on GP Raymeister, and when she exited with a 72.38 percent she added a third consecutive title to her resume of accomplishments.
   
“I’m really proud of Ray,” she said of the young stallion. “He was super today. I felt like the whole test flowed together nicely. He was a little timid about some of the puddles, so I rode him carefully through it, but even with the conditions he was super.”
   

A high score from the first leg of the Brentina Cup Championship worked in Jocelyn Wiese’s favor today, June 20. It was just enough to give her the championship with Lamborghini, even though her ride in the young rider Grand Prix only placed fourth (64.32%).

The two scores are averaged, and Wiese’s 66.41 percent from the Brentina Cup test put her ahead of Alyssa Eidbo and Johnny Cash. Consistency worked in Eidbo’s favor, as she placed fourth on Day 1 (64.97%) and third today (64.41%).

Adrienne Lyle spent her morning splashing in puddles with Wizard, and that paid off in spades for her when she swam to the top of the leaderboard in the Grand Prix freestyle (74.95%) on a wet and sloppy Saturday night, June 20, at the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Grand Prix Championship.

Lyle, who won last year’s Brentina Cup, just edged out yesterday’s Grand Prix winner Leslie Morse on Tip Top 962 (74.25%) and Lauren Sammis on Sagacious HF (72.45%).

The Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions is a familiar haunt for Leslie Morse and Tip Top 962, but now they can add a blue ribbon to their collection of rosettes from the National Grand Prix Championships.
   
Last to go in today’s Grand Prix test on June 19, the veteran pair laid down a solid and correct performance to clinch the win with 72.00 percent.
   

Kassandra Barteau is no stranger to blue ribbons—she’s won the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Young Rider Championship for two years in a row with Gabriella.

This year, however, the 20-year-old brought a new mount, GP Raymeister, and proved that she’s stiff competition aboard any horse with her winning score of 69.94 percent in the young rider team test over Meagan Davis with Bentley (69.21%) and Christine Stephenson with Markant (68.52%).
   

The consistent rain didn’t bother Jocelyn Wiese and Lamborghini during the Brentina Cup competition today at the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival Of Champions in Gladstone, N.J. The pair skipped around the puddles to win the class with a 66.41 percent.