Parbery and Desmet Win on Day Two at 2015 CDI Sydney

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2015 CDI Sydney

Brett Parbery has made it two for two at the Sydney CDI, taking out the Grand Prix Special class on 8 May 2015. In a repeat performance that saw him win the Grand Prix in yesterday’s competition, Brett won the Grand Prix Special on the Weltmeyer gelding, DP Weltmieser. Brett was more than 2.5% ahead of his nearest rival, John Thompson on his own Hanovarian gelding, Antonello, in the Grand Prix Special.

But it wasn’t just the “old hands” that claimed the glory on day two of the Sydney CDI, with young horses and young riders also putting in sterling performances.

Victorian young rider Tayla Desmet cemented yesterday’s win in the CDI-Y team test with a second victory in the Agnes Banks Equine Clinic CDI-Y Individual Test on board Philip Desmet’s Hanovarian gelding, Rodrigo III. The year 10 student rode a polished test in the indoor arena at her very first Sydney CDI to improve on yesterday’s score, taking out the class with 69.421%.

“I was really happy with him today, the movements to me felt a lot better, he was a lot more forward in the trot than yesterday,” she said. “Yesterday the trot work I think held us back a little bit. I think we scored down a bit and more up in the canter work. Today we evened it out a bit more and the marks for the trot were higher because he was going a bit more forward.”

Tayla has been riding Rodrigo III since March 2014 under the watchful eye of coach and fellow Sydney CDI competitor, Maree Tomkinson.

“I haven’t had him for too long but we are starting to get the hang of it together,” she said. “(Maree) does a very good job and it’s great to have her as my coach because she also trained Rodrigo through to Grand Prix, so she knows the horse well.”

Royal Hit progeny took out the first two places in the Kieffer Intermediate I, with Matthew Dowsley and the gelding Adloo Richard, owned by Diane Jenkyn, taking out first place only 0.289% ahead of Rodney Martin on board Andrea Beatty’s gelding, SPH Sonata Hit.