Grand Prix win at Global for Lindsay Kellock Duckworth and Tu le Merite

Lindsay Kellock Duckworth celebrates her Grand Prix win with her husband and daughter, Drew and Madison Duckworth. (Submitted photo)

With no Canadian entries in this week’s CDI at the World Equestrian Centre Ocala, we’re keeping an eye on national show results from HITS Del Mar in California and the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Florida. There were some great performances by Canada’s FEI Juniors and Young Riders, with wins today by Kiara Williams-Brown, Annika Kriening, and Alison Campbell Wright. But with all eyes currently on Canada’s Olympic hopefuls, the most notable victory of the day came from Lindsay Kellock Duckworth.

Lindsay and Tu le Merite, Lisa Apa’s 2012 Hanoverian gelding by Totilas, bested an impressive field of competitors in today’s national Grand Prix class at Global with 71.196%.

​ “I’m so thrilled,” said Lindsay. “It was our second Grand Prix together and his third ever Grand Prix. He felt amazing in the piaffe and passage. This horse has shown a total of six times in his entire career and he is unflappable. His focus is me and the job he is in there to do and I feel so lucky to be his rider.”

No firm date for the pair’s CDI debut yet but expect it to be in the near future. Lindsay and her coach Ashley Holzer will decide when the right time is to enter the international ring and begin the quest for Olympic qualifying scores.



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Lindsay schooling Tu le Merite at her home base Team Enterprise Farm. (Submitted photo)