New ride for Brooke Mancusi

Canada’s Brooke Mancusi and her new partner, DeJohn Ymas

Winnipeg native Brooke Mancusi has an exciting new addition to her stable. She announced today the purchase of the 2008 KWPN gelding DeJohn Ymas (Johnson x Sandro Hit), to be her next U25 mount. Last year she campaigned Jill Irving’s Arthur in the division and was a member of Canada’s gold medal-winning U25 team at the North American Youth Championships.

​Brooke (age 23) is based in Wellington, Florida for the winter season and trains with Canadian Olympian Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu. DeJohn will be a stablemate for Brooke’s small tour horse Kalisto Sollenburg, a 2015 KWPN gelding she purchased in the Netherlands in 2021, after the sudden tragic death of her Young Rider mount Grand Amour, just before the pair was set to compete at the North American Young Riders Championships.

“Johnny has a lot of show experience beginning in Europe in the Young Horse classes all the way up to Grand Prix. I am hoping to build on everything that I learned from Arthur and continue to learn at this level with Johnny,” Brooke told Canadian Dressage News. “I plan to declare Johnny for NAYC this summer in Michigan and once again represent Canada. Obviously there will be a number of shows between now and August, both here in Wellington and at home in Canada. Hopefully we can get a few CDI's under belt in Wellington and other shows back home this spring. I had been looking for a few months for the right U25 horse and am blessed to have found DeJohn with help from my trainer, Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu.”