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Raleigh CDI Prix St Georges/Intermediaire I Determines Those Qualified for the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions
By Lynndee Kemmet for DressageDaily

Raleigh, N.C. – There were no shortage of competitors at this year’s Raleigh CDI***W/Y/J Capital Dressage Classic. Many classes were filled to the brim, even in the FEI levels, which made being a winner something particularly special.

In FEI competition, two of largest classes of all were Friday’s CDI FEI Prix St. Georges and Saturday’s CDI FEI Intermediaire I, and Sunday's Intermemdiaire Freestyle. All classes were packed with 34 competitors. To accommodate them all, competition kicked off first thing in the morning and ran well into the mid-afternoon. If anyone had a right to be exhausted, it was the judges, and the judges' panel selected three different winners for each class.

The class winners, however, had a right to be proud. They went up against some of the best riders and horses the Eastern U.S. has to offer and emerged at the head of the pack. The winner of the loaded Prix St. Georges class was Shawna Harding riding the eight-year-old Dutch gelding Come On III (Come Back II out of Canna) with a score of 69.333 percent. The winner of the large Intermediaire I class was Melissa Taylor riding the 13-year-old Danish gelding Schumacker Solyst (Schwadroneur out of Patricia Solyst) with a score of 68.583. Polishing off a long weekend of tip High Perfomance rides was Susan Dutta and Horses Unlimited's stallion Pik L.