Langley, BC, June 1, 2025 – The Canadian Show Jumping Team finished second in the $75,000 FEI CSIO4* Nations Cup 1.55m, held Sunday, June 1, at Thunderbird Show Park as part of the Odlum Brown BC Open. The Irish team of “three Coyles and a Swail” (Jordan, Christian and Daniel, plus Conor Swail — the “winningest rider in the Grand Prix ring of all time” at Thunderbird) showed their class once again, taking the win for the third year in a row (2022, 2023 and 2025, they didn’t run a NC in 2024) with an overall team total of eight faults.
Four countries began the first round Sunday afternoon, with all returning for the immediate second round. Clean rounds produced by Olympic veterans Tiffany Foster with Battlecry, and Mario Deslauriers with his Paris 2024 ride Emerson, meant we could drop one of the two four-fault scores from both Ali Ramsay and Vanessa Mannix to finish the first round on a score of four. Canada went into the second round tied with Mexico and ahead of the USA on 16 faults.
Team Canada was comprised of Tiffany Foster of Langley, BC, with Battlecry owned by herself, Artisan Farms, LLC and Kent Farrington LLC; Ali Ramsay of Victoria, BC, with Conrado 12 owned by Ramsay Equestrian Inc.; Vanessa Mannix of Calgary, AB, with Kingston owned by Vanessa; and Mario Deslauriers originally of Venise-en-Quebec now based out of New York, with Emerson, owned by Mario and Lisa Deslauriers and Wishing Well Farm, LLC. The team was supported by Chef d’Equipe Ian Millar and Team Manager Karen Hendry-Ouellette.
The course, designed by long-time Thunderbird course designer Canada’s Peter Holmes, was well spread over the sizeable grass field. Faults came in a few key places, namely the triple combination at fence 6, the narrow white ‘skinny’ fence at 3, and number 10 a tall vertical just off the in-gate, with a delicate plank set as the top rail. Time came into play but not due to time faults — rather as the mechanism to break the tie of jumping faults held between Canada and Mexico to determine second and third placings. Canada’s times were all faster, meaning when it was all said and done, we took second and Mexico took third.
Lead-off rider for Canada, multiple Pan-Am and Olympic competitor Tiffany Foster and Battlecry posted a fast clear to kick things off in the first round.
Second in for Team Canada, Ali Ramsay with the eye-catching steel-gray Conrado 12 had just the skinny white vertical down (and would not be the only ones over the course of the day) for a fast four-fault road.
Third in was Vanessa Mannix with Kingston, whose four faults at the C element of the triple combination would become the drop score for round one.
Anchoring the team was multiple Canadian Olympian, Mario Deslauriers, with Emerson, with another solid clear round.
In the second round, Tiffany and Mario both dropped the C element of the triple combination with Tiffany adding an additional fault at 11a, and Vanessa had the delicate plank down for four. Ali Ramsay, the 2022 Canadian Champion, improved on her first round with a clean second round. All-in-all, a positive experience for a young team.
“Today our team finished second – a podium finish” explained Chef d’Equipe Ian Millar after the presentations. “I was very very proud of them. And the word TEAM really comes into it, because each and every horse and rider combination today contributed to the result. We’re building some new horses and developing some new riders, and this is how we build a team. Today was a good day.”
Team Ireland took the win on an overall score of 8 faults, with their anchor rider Daniel Coyle not needing to jump in the second round. Team Canada and Mexico each finished with 12 faults, but based on times, Canada took second and Mexico third. Team USA finished in fourth on an overall score of 20.
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