Ben Maher Earns One-Two Finish with Tackeray & Quiet Easy 4 in $32,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Classic - Congratulations!

Monday 27 February 2012

Ben Maher Earns One-Two Finish with Tackeray & Quiet Easy 4 in $32,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Classic - Congratulations!

Ben Maher comes out on top in Wellington this week picking up first and second aboard Tackeray and Quiet Easy 4 in the $32,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Classic.
 
Held as a Rolex FEI world ranking competition, the class was the feature event on Wednesday as the seventh week of the 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) got underway. 
 
Featuring fifty seven horse and rider combinations from sixteen different nations competing over a speed course set by Olaf Petersen, Jr. of Germany. Nineteen entries cleared the course without fault and battled against the clock. Ben took the first place prize with Quainton Studs 12 year old stallion Tackeray, stopping the clock in 60 seconds flat. Ben captured the second position aboard Quainton Studs 8 year old gelding Quiet Easy 4, with a time of 60.36 seconds.
 
"It was a good class. I've got a big bill here, so I have to start trying to win some money," Ben laughed after the class. "I have been bringing the horses on slowly the last few weeks, getting used to the newer ones. It was a nice course; not too big. They left a lot of options to leave strides out in certain places and I don't know the course just suited me I guess." 
 
Ben was pleased with his young horses and plans to bring out his top horses during the week as the competition advances. Tripple X III, just arrived in Florida and jumped clear in Wednesday’s $6,000 Spy Coast Farm 1.40m Power and Speed class in his first time showing outdoors for the year. The pair most recently finished 5th fth in the World Cup Qualifier in Zurich, Switzerland.  
 
For full results, please visit www.showgroundslive.com.  

Final Results: $32,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Classic
1. TACKERAY: BEN MAHER (GBR) 0/60.00
2. QUIET EASY 4: BEN MAHER (GBR) 0/60.36
3. GAMA CHAMACO: 2004: DARRAGH KENNY (IRL) 0/60.81
4. WANG CHUNG M2S: ERIC LAMAZE (CAN) 0/60.93  
5. G&C FLASH: PABLO BARRIOS (VEN) 0/61.51 
6. LIPTON DE L'OTHAIN: DARRAGH KENNY (IRL) 0/62.32


Photo Credit: Photos © Sportfot, Official Sport Photographer of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival, www.us.sportfot.com. This photo may be used only in relation to this press release.
 
About the FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival
The 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of top competition running from January 11 through April 1. The FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival is run by Equestrian Sport Productions, LLC and Wellington Equestrian Partners and held at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. All 12 shows are "AA" rated and Jumper Rated 6, and more than $6 million in prize money will be awarded.
 

 
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