Brooke Mancusi Awarded 2025 Orion Cup

Dressage

Canada

For the second consecutive year, Brooke Mancusi is the recipient of the Orion Cup Award at the 2025 Canada East National Dressage Championships.

The Orion Cup was created in memory of one of Canada’s most well-known equine dressage stars - Orion. The Orion Cup is presented to a promising dressage athlete in the process of transitioning from the Young Rider level to Grand Prix.

Presented to a promising dressage athlete in the process of transitioning from the Young Rider level to Grand Prix, the Orion Cup Award is open to Canadian dressage riders aged 16 to 25. The award is given to the rider with the highest average of three scores from the U25 Grand Prix level.

Originally from Winnipeg, Mancusi is a team bronze medal winner at the 2018 North American Junior Riders Championships. She tragically lost her Young riders' horse Grand Amour right before departure to the 2021 North American Young Riders Championships this summer. Shortly afterwards the family acquired Kalisto Sollenburg (by Eye Catcher x Rousseau) in The Netherlands. In 2022 she showed Kalisto and Wellknown (by Wynton x Havidoff). In 2023 Brooke's main competition horses were Jill Irving's Grand Prix horse Arthur (by Jazz x Contango), Kalisto, and Melbourne (by Ferdeaux x Krack C) which she showed at national level in Canada. With Arthur she was member of the gold medal winning team at the inaugural 2023 North American Under 25 championships.

In 2024 Mancusi acquired DeJohn Ymas (by Johnson x Sandro Hit) who has been her main Under 25 ride. She showed hum at the CDI's in Wellington and Ottawa this year before heading to the North American Under 25 Championships in Traverse City, where she was second in the kur to music.