Francisco José Mesquita Musa wins Big Tour D Class at the Sunshine Tour

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The Big Tour D at this year’s Sunshine Tour was kicked off with a smashing win from Francisco José Mesquita Musa, following a week of classy jumping from the Young Horse Class at this year’s event.

With the youngsters now enjoying a well-deserved rest, the more experienced horses started off the Big Tour with three classes, thus opening the week’s CSI3* action at Montenmedio.

The Brazilian rider Francisco José Mesquita Musa, was the star of the day winning the 1.50m speed class, with the 12yr old mare Catch me Imperio Egipcio. Mesquita has had a run of good results in various 5* international shows with this mare since, who he started riding in 2017.  Their time of 61.1 seconds was nearly 2 seconds faster than Henk Van de Pol from the Netherlands who was riding Looyman Z and took second place. Third was the American rider, Julie Welles with Ambra.

1.40 Class

The optimum time in the 1.40m class was very tight. The class was won by the Belgian rider Bart Clarys with the mare, Katinka V.H. Blondeveld. In second place was another American rider, Michael Hughes with Jeco Van Het Swennenhog and in third was the well known Portuguese rider Duarte Seabra riding MHS Fernhill.

1.35 Class

There were 104 riders in the 1.35m class which was won by the French rider Laurent Goffinet on the 11yr old mare Valkyrie Condeene. Kevin González de Zárate from Spain, who has just arrived, took second place with Ragga Muffin. His brother Alvaro also had a great day winning the B Section of the 7yr old class which was held in the Hickstead arena and was the first time the 7yr olds had jumped water here at the Tour. The British rider, Emma Stoker took both second and third place and once again proved that she is a force to be reckoned with in these classes.

7-year-olds

Section A of the 7yr olds was won by another British rider, Ellen Whitaker, riding Icaterina which will add to her birthday celebrations. The Turkish rider Omer Karaevli was second with Helmut Schonstetter from Germany, taking third.

6-year-olds

The 6yr old class was dominated by Spanish riders with Section B being won by Javier Bosch and Lesmes de Mies, second was Ángel Cerdido riding Sevilla de Villafranca and third, Iván Serrano riding Duska. Vincent Zacharias Bourgignon (MAR) was first in the other section with Ormarine de Bourgignon, second was Jessica Hewitt (GBR) with Mojito TW and third, the French rider, Max Thirouin with Empreinte Tame.

5-year-olds

The Spanish rider Diana Marsá also had a great day today with Sisko Demiralia as she won section A of the 5 yr olds. Jude Burgess (GBR) riding“Pretty Woman van Loheky” also had a great round winning Section B.

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