Keep Me With You N.C.and Dermott Lennon Forge Successful Partnership in $24,500 Horseflight Jumper Classic
Dermott Lennon’s catch ride on Keep Me With You N.C. proved to be a good start to the partnership as the pair took top call in the $24,500 Horseflight Jumper Classic. The feature event was one of many classics held throughout the final day of the fifth week of the HITS Ocala Winter Circuit. The ten-week circuit hit its halfway mark with fantastic turnout in the hunter, jumper, and equitation rings as well as the arrival of some new competition such as Lennon himself.
Philipp Schwender (GER) built one more tactical course on Sunday which saw 23 horse-and-rider combinations prepare to rise to the occasion. With a tight time allowed or difficulty at only a single obstacle for most riders, the class’s completion advanced only four entries into the jump off. Lennon was fresh off a flight from Ireland that landed Friday evening, and hadn’t yet sat on the Falkirk Farms LLC’s nine-year-old KWPN mare, but he didn’t let that stop him from winning.
“I ride many different horses in a day usually, and if it’s a good jumper, it’s just very easy,” he said. “I warm up and feel what the horse likes or doesn’t like, and then I try to go towards what it likes.”
While the ever-changing Florida weather deterred a number of entries from the challenge on Sunday, for Lennon it was like any other day.
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