Coming off a win in the 1.40m jumpers on Wednesday at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), Darragh Kenny (IRL) was back to his winning ways once again, this time aboard Sweet Tricia, owned by the SHL Farm, in the $6,000 Douglas Elliman Real Estate 1.45m Jumpers on Thursday, January 28, at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC).
The NetJets CSI3* week rolls on as show jumping continues in the International Arena at WEF and features the $37,000 Adequan® WEF Challenge Cup Round 3 on Friday, the CaptiveOne Advisors 1.50m Classic on Saturday, and the Sunday afternoon’s $137,000 NetJets Grand Prix CSI3*. You can watch all feature classes online using the free livestream. With a starting field of 41 entries, Kenny and Sweet Tricia, a 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare by Berlin x Aetrichta, put forward the fastest effort of the day over the two-phase track designed by Peter Grant (CAN) and Joey Rycroft (CAN), keeping all the jumps up for the victory in 31.95 seconds. As Kenny alluded to after recording the win, sometimes the best way to handle the course is to go with the flow.