Traverse City, Michigan, USA – July 31, 2024 – The 2024 Gotham North/FEI North American Youth Jumping Championships presented by USHJA got underway at Flintfields Horse Park on Wednesday morning with the first individual qualifiers for the children’s and pre-junior categories.

Zone 2’s Tarin Kiely (Rumson, N.J.) took top honors in the pre-junior qualifier with Wonder If (Cevin Z x Ruby Ravel), a 2012 Anglo-European mare owned by Kiely Equestrian, with a time of 64.26 seconds.

JJ Torano (Wellington, Fla.), of Zone 4, and JET Show Stables’ 2015 KWPN Kybalia Smh/svn (Baltic Vdl x Gin Gin Balia Smh) were second, while Zone 1’s Capri Truesdale (Greenwich, Conn.) and Belle Fayvinia Z, a 2010 Zangersheide mare owned by Jorge Matte, took third.

Final Results – Pre-Junior First Individual Qualifier

1) Tarin Kiely (USA) & Wonder If – 0 – 64.26

2) JJ Torano (USA) & Kybalia SMH/SVN – 0 – 64.83

3) Capri Truesdale (USA) & Belle Fayvinia Z – 0 – 66.09

Source: Press Release from Traverse City Horse Shows

Photo: © TCHS / Andrew Ryback Photography

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