WELLINGTON, Fla.--The Winter Equestrian Festival came to a close on Sunday, March 31 after 13 weeks of exceptional competition that included most of the top world ranked riders.
Eve Jobs on High Point VDL (Photo by Sportfot)Eve Jobs on High Point VDL won the final jumper class, the $62,500 CSI2* Grand Prix over up-and-coming star Callie Schott on one of her young horses, Fair Field.
Guilherme Jorge of Brazil designed the course for the 45 competitors, six of which returned for the jump-off.
Jobs recently returned to competition, and had her first win on High Point VDL.
“He's a horse I actually got a couple years back from Enda Carroll and Stephanie Carroll from Ashford Farm, and he's been amazing,” said Jobs. “I took a couple years away from the sport and would just come back for a few shows here and there throughout the year. I slowly but surely built a really special partnership with him and it’s been amazing.”
“He's rideable and he's got such great natural balance,"' she said. "He's a naturally very careful horse and today it was good enough.”
Jobs was clean in 41.19 seconds for the win to beat Schott on Fair Field, clean in a time of 42.67 seconds, and Jessica Mendoza of Great Britain on Chuck Bass was third in 42.79 seconds.
“I started this season on a blank canvas just seeing how the horses were and how I was feeling, and as the weeks have gone on I've gotten a lot more into it myself,” said Jobs. “The horses are going great, my team's amazing at home and they've done such a wonderful job of keeping them that way. For the foreseeable future I plan on coming back.”
