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Vol. 54 Issue No. 2 ISSN: 1209-3955


Averill Saunders Wins Canada’s First-Ever Vaulting Medal With A Silver


At FEI Vaulting World Championships


Ottawa, ON, Aug. 2, 2023 – Averill Saunders of Sundre, AB, continues to push the boundaries for Canadian vaulting winning a silver medal at the FEI Vaulting World Championships for Young Vaulters & Juniors held July 26-30, 2023 in Flyinge, SWE. The medal, which she won in the Indi- vidual Female Young Vaulter division marks the first time a Canadian has


been on the vaulting podium in World Championship competition. Saunders came to the


event hoping that a heel in- jury she sustained in compe- tition in April would not hold her back and prepared to deliver technically chal- lenging performances in the newly created youth divi- sion with a field of 33 com- petitors from 17 countries. The division featured three performances, comprised of a first round with both com- pulsory and technical tests, each worth 25%, and then a second-round free test worth 50% of the overall score. Anticipation was high


for Saunders coming into the competition in 6th place in the FEI world vaulting rankings as well as recently being named EC’s Junior Equestrian of the Year. She made only a small error in her initial compulsory test and started the next part of the round in fifth place on a score of 7.633. She trailed just behind three leading young vaulters from Ger- many including Alice Lay- her with the best score of 8.247 and Austria’s Anna Weidenauer with 7.852. In the second test of


the round, the 19-year-old achieved the highest techni- cal score with an impressive 8.747 with her partner Rockemotion (Rockwell x Di Versace) and groom and lunger Nina Vorberg, who co-owns the 15-year-old Westfalian gelding with Kai Vorberg and Hans-Peter and Marlies Krukenburg. Her combined technical score of 8.190 put her in second place going into the second and final free round behind Layher who remained in first with a combined score of 8.364. “My experience here


was unique compared to other championships that I’ve done in the past,” said Saunders about what made the difference for her in Fly- inge. “I traveled here with a really incredible team stand- ing beside me as well as being able to start once again with Nina Vorberg and Rockemotion was super special for me.” “My training for this


event was also unique with only being able to come back to training four weeks prior to my heel injury,” Saunders continued. “It was eight-hour days, six days a week, training on both my


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Saunders wears the maple leaf during her compulsory test. Photo Credit: Kaiser Impressions


main horse and my reserve horse. I did about five or six hours of ground and gym training every day trying to get back to where I was. Considering the circum- stances, I’m quite happy


with how far I was able to come.” All the training and


preparation paid off for her. In the second round, she


Continued on Page 3.


First FEI Grand Prix Victory in the CSI2* at the Bromont Olympic Equestrian Park


BROMONT, QC - August 6, 2023 - Lauren Esdale (Seagrave, ON) cap- tured the biggest win of her career Sunday afternoon at the International Bromont, guiding Viamdios D’Avril (aka ‘Ted’) to the win in the $45,900 FEI CSI2* 1.45m Grand Prix pre- sented by the Government of Quebec. Of the 14 combinations to at-


tempt the challenging course set by Olympic course designer Leopoldo Palacios of Venezuela, only three were able to successfully qualify to return for a jump-off. First in the ring, Alex- anne Thibault (Boucherville, QC)


with Cidano Z, followed by Francois Lamontagne (Saint-Eustache, QC) with Thunderbird VH Scheefkasteel and finally Esdale. Both Lamontagne and Thibault


are ‘Elite’ members of the Programme de soutien au développement de l’ex- cellence, organized by the sport min- istry of Quebec and sport federations, to support and nurture the develop- ment and progression of athletes to reach the highest level of their sport. Fences fell over the length of the


course, but none more frequently than the dreaded bicycle jump at fence 9,


modelled after the infamous original from Spruce Meadows, which came from the second World Equestrian Games in the Hague, Netherlands (1994) and has been keeping riders up at night ever since. Set on a tight left-hand roll-back


in front of two hillsides full of specta- tors, exactly 50% of the field were un- able to clear it. Those who did elicited anything from polite applause to downright cheers by the end of the first round. Thankfully it did not make an appearance in the jump-off.


Continued on Page 3 Canada’s Lauren Esdale Captures her


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