Phillip Dutton, Will Coleman Top CCI4*-L/S Following Day One at The Event at TerraNova – Eventing Nation
We’ve got two days of dressage under our belts in The B&D Builders CCI4*-L at The Event at TerraNova (Myakka City, FL), and Phillip Dutton and the Possante Groups’s Possante will be the phase one leaders after earning a 26.8 from the Ground Jury of Valerie Pride (USA), Robyn Fisher (USA), and Christina Klingspor (SWE).
Phillip’s taken an unplanned route to TerraNova this fall after a tack malfunction led to an early end to what would have been their final competition of the season at the US Equestrian Open Final in October (Morven Park – Leesburg, VA). Phillip then brought “Impy” to the MARS Maryland 5 Star to perform the test ride after he earned a higher-than-usual mark at Morven Park; the extra practice in atmosphere wouldn’t hurt, and Friday their score trended back down into the territory Phillip knows the 12-year-old KWPN gelding can become more comfortable in.
