Lisa Goldman and Centurion B take the $25,000 SmartPak Grand Prix at the HITS Ocala January Festival (ESI Photography)
Eight riders advanced to the jump off over Esparza’s first round course of 15 jumping efforts. Goldman said, “I love Manuel’s courses. He’s a great course designer. It was bigger than I thought it was going to be. I watched Tracy Fenney go first in the jump off and she was really fast. I didn’t think her time could be beaten.”
Fenney of Flower Mound, Texas, was aboard last week’s HITS $50,000 Grand Prix winner MTM Centano. In the SmartPak Grand Prix, her time of 36.997 earned her second place and $6,500.
The jump off was exciting to the end. Goldman was last to go and Centurion B crossed the timers in 36.046 for first place and a check for $7,500. She also praised the sponsor, SmartPak, whose products are used by all the horses in her barn. Ian Millar, of Canada, on Baranus, owned by the Baranus Group, took home a check for $3,250 in third place with a time of 38.270.
Place Horse Owner Rider Prize Round 1 Faults JO Faults JO Time
1 Centurion B Mary Goldman Lisa Goldman $7,500 0 0 36.046
2 MTM Centano MTM Farm Tracy Fenney $5,500 0 0 36.997
3 Baranus The Baranus Group Ian Millar $3,250 0 0 38.270
4 As Di Chupito North Face Farm Erin Haas $2,000 0 0 41.727
5 Troya Retiro Juan Pablo Betancourt Juan Pablo Betancourt $1,500 0 0 42.086
6 Cassevel Maddie Skimming Derek Petersen $1,250 0 0 43.514
7 Quidam's Good Luck Troy Glaus Aaron Vale $1,000 0 4 37.488
8 I Love Lucy Hays Investment Corp. Hunter Holloway $750 0 4 37.723
9 S & L Elite S & L Farms (CT) Dorothy Douglas $750 1 * *
10 Morocco Lisa Goldman Lisa Goldman $500 4 * *
11 VDL Torlando Torlando Group Callan Solem $500 4 * *
12 Fons Van't Gey Zever Chuck & Dana Waters Daniel Damen $500 4 * *