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Great Australian Thoroughbred Jumper retires
Eros, an Australian racetrack reject, has been retired after a successful career in the USA. Victorian Adam Wootton took Eros to the USA by as a C-grade jumper and sold him there to American rider Anne Kursinski.
Vicki Roycroft notes that Eros was by Family Ties, who has produced a lot of jumping horses here, including Liaisons. Eros is a half-brother to Greg Smith's very successful Henry Higgs, who while a good jumper, didn't quite have the Olympic scope of Eros. Eros is a great example of the 'freaky' thoroughbred that could still hold his own amongst the purpose-bred Warmbloods. Other examples were Apache and WS Scandal. Anne Kursinki had a successful riding career with Eros. Highlights include:
The farewell ceremony was held before the $175,000 CN US Open Jumper Championship won by Mario Deslauriers of Canada on Paradigm, with Todd Minikus of the United States second on Pavarotti and Rodrigo Pessoa of Brazil on Coeur third. Coeur by the way is owned by Hunter Harrison, the American who runs CN the sponsor of Sunday's CSIO 5* GP, last Friday's Nations Cup and next Saturday’s US$400,000 Grand Prix. The Winter Equestrian Festival is the world's longest running and richest equestrian event, with eight weeks in Wellington and two weeks in Tampa. Prize money totals more than US$4 million.
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