Ocala, FL – The WEC Grand Area hosted 38 horse-and-rider combos on Sunday morning at World Equestrian Middle – Ocala (WEC) for the $50,000 LeMieux Nationwide Grand Prix. Ultimately, it was Sharn Wordley (NZL) who couldn’t be caught aboard Della Wordley’s Hagelin, securing their second grand prix victory of the 2025 Summer time Sequence.
Famend course designer Guilherme Jorge (BRA) set a monitor that yielded 13 clear first rounds, resulting in a jump-off the place the highest 4 placings have been separated by mere hundredths of a second.
Wordley was the second to return for the jump-off and the primary to publish a transparent spherical. He guided the 13-year-old Hanoverian gelding by means of a swift effort, and based on Wordley, it was Hagelin’s pure velocity that sealed the win. “I used to be early to go. I took 10 strides on the nook from one to 2. Afterward, I believed I in all probability ought to have achieved 9 as a result of it was there. I believe I used to be the one one to do 9 throughout to the liverpool, that’s the place I made up time. I used to be a bit sluggish on the rollback, and the mix was fairly tight, so that you needed to decelerate coming in. The final line was very regular. The one purpose I gained was as a result of my horse is of course quick and I took one fewer stride to the liverpool.”
A time of 38.025 seconds proved unbeatable, and Wordley and Hagelin claimed the lion’s share of the prize cash.
Sharn Wordley accepting his first-place award offered by Lauren Murray, representing LeMieux, and Karla Campbell of World Equestrian Middle. Picture by Andrew Ryback Images
Reflecting on simply how shut the jump-off turned out to be, Wordley remarked, “There have been 4 of us inside a number of hundredths of a second, however Hagelin doesn’t have an enormous step—he has a medium step that you need to use all the best way to the final stride. Which means you don’t need to decelerate on the jumps, which makes him faster and faster over the fences.”
Eire’s Paul O’Shea got here the closest to Wordley’s time aboard Workforce Eye Sweet’s Spy (Centadel x Chaconie). O’Shea and the 11-year-old Oldenburg gelding delivered tidy turns and not noted strides to cease the clock in 38.072 seconds, simply four-hundredths of a second behind.
Jelmer Hoekstra (NED) was proper there with Wordley and O’Shea. He piloted Davenport Farms’ 10-year-old KWPN gelding MTM Fantonius (Falaise De Muze x Ulisha Bella) to a speedy end in 38.505 seconds to spherical out the highest three.
Audrey Muscari earned the Quickest 4-Faulter award aboard Chester Du Roset with a fast first-round time of 72.503 seconds and one rail down.
Samuel Parot Jr. obtained the Luck of the Draw award.
$50,000 LeMieux Nationwide Grand Prix Outcomes
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