Wilmington, Ohio – Pumpkins, mums and cornstalks set the scene within the R+L Enviornment at World Equestrian Heart – Wilmington for the primary $15,000 USHJA Nationwide Open Hunter Derby of the 2025 Fall Basic Sequence. A discipline of 21 horse-and-rider combos met for the traditional spherical, impressing the judges for a cut-off rating of 80 to return for the useful.
Tyler Petrie finally piloted Lisa Wu’s, Nostradamus, to the highest of the category, proving his shiny future forward.
Petrie was elated with the seven-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding and spoke enthusiastically about his successful persona.
“He loves his job, he loves my dad,” Petrie laughed. “He loves getting the remedy! It’s good when a horse needs to their job and go in and win alongside you. He’s so true blue, and he’s going to make somebody so completely happy. He’s a one in one million of horses I’ve gotten to experience.”
“I simply received him in June, and he has been excellent. We now have been doing the three’6” Inexperienced Hunters and he certified for indoors, so this can be a warmup for that. He has confirmed that he’s able to go! He received his final derby too, so coming again and getting one other win was very nice,” Petrie shared about their partnership.
Using out of her personal, Chesterfield LLC, Petrie is a frequent competitor in Wilmington. This fall, she made the journey to arrange for finals season.
“The jumps are wonderful at WEC. The programs are at all times nice. Doing the derby at the moment, that they had the pumpkins on one of many jumps, so it simply offers the horses a bit of bit to have a look at with out being too spooky. It prepares them so effectively for indoors as a result of they’ll see the identical issues there,” she famous.
Returning for the useful spherical with a first-round rating of 91, the duo sat in second place.
“We have been all only a few factors aside go into the useful! I simply received him and since that is solely my second or third derby with him, I performed it secure. I saved it tidy in every single place, however he was down for no matter I wished,” she commented on her plan.
A second-round rating of 89 and a two-round whole of 180 landed within the prime spot.
Allie McBreen and a longtime accomplice, MTM Bentley, owned by Lori Taylor, earned the purple ribbon. The 12-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding scored an 89 and a 90.
The eight-year-old Warmblood gelding, Adore, owned by Goldstein Funding Group, rounded out the highest three with Lilly Goldstein within the irons with scores of 87 and 91.
