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Selcuk Koksalan of Turkey and the 17-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding Flying Echo flew into first place in the CSI2* $6,000 Florida Coast Equipment Two Phase class at the start of week three at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Wellington, Florida.American Laura Chapot and the 10-year-old Selle Francais gelding Ginola took second place in the 1.40-meter class.

Charlotte Jacobs delivered a standout performance in the $32,000 1.45m CSI3* Speed at the Ocala Winter Spectacular Show Series IV – CSI3*, guiding Thomascourt Ballypatrick, owned by North Star, to a decisive victory against a competitive international field.Second place honors went to Spain’s Sergio Álvarez Moya aboard Be Blue, owned by the rider himself.

Speed and accuracy took center stage in the $32,000 FEI CSI5* Speed Stake 1.45m at CSI5* Desert Circuit III, where a competitive field pushed the pace over the fast and flowing track.Karl Cook claimed top honors aboard Candy, delivering a fault-free round that stopped the clock at 61.66 seconds.

Germany's Richard Vogel and the 10-year-old stallion Gangster Mondesir won the CSI4* $1,000 Bainbridge Companies Two Phase class at the World Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Wellington, Florida, on Wednesday.Coming in second and thirdMexico's Simon Nizri and Balouton PS, an 11-year-old Oldenburg stallion, took second place in the 1.40-meter class that had 38 entries.

Israel's Daniel Bluman and his own 9-year-old mare Rebelline de Kwakenbeek won the CSI4* $6,000 Dodd Technologies Two Phase Special class at the World Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Wellington, Florida, on Wednesday.Runner-up and third placeWorld no. 6 Richard Vogel of Germany and the 10-year-old Holsteiner gelding Con Quality finished second in the 1.45-meter class during week three of WEF.

Marylisa Leffler zipped around the jump-off with her longtime partner Zaza Z to win the $10,000 Adequan Open Welcome Wednesday during the Ocala Winter Festival. Leffler was one of eight riders in the field of 15 who advanced to the jump-off during the week's first day of classes at HITS Ocala. All eight jumped double clear in the jump-off.It was close, at timesSome of the times were very close.

Tony Stormanns and RMF Cinnamo, a 12-year-old Swedish Warmblood gelding, finished atop the field of 20 with a time of 70.82 seconds to win the CSIU25 $1,000 Speed class during week four of the Winter Spectacular at WEC Ocala.Canadian Will Martin and VDL Mourinho, a 9-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding, finished second in the 140 meter class Wednesday.

Fresh off his win in Saturday night's $200,000 Grand Prix FEI CSI4* at WEC Ocala, Aaron Vale wasted no time in securing another blue ribbon in the Grand Arena. Today, it was with Tulara Cascara during the first jumper class of week four of the Winter Spectacular show series at WEC Ocala.