If he keeps winning, we’re going to run out of ways to use “Incredible” in a sentence to describe Daniel Coyle’s lovely, and yes, incredibly successful partner over the past two weeks at Thunderbird Show Park.
Friday afternoon Coyle and his 12-year-old son by Clinton topped a five-horse jump-off in the CSI4* Grand Prix, just ahead of fellow Irishman Conor Swail with Casturano (Castelan I x Canturo), and hometown hero Canadian Olympian Tiffany Foster with Electrique (Emerald van't Ruytershof x Voltaire).
Canadian course designer Peter Holmes built a true test at the 1.55m level, and just five pairs on the start list were able to advance to the shortened second round. It should come as no surprise that the top three in the results were also the only three riders in the class with double-digit world rankings. (Coyle sits in 14th, Swail in 16th and Tiffany Foster, in 39th.)
Coyle and Incredible have only been together a little over a year, but with 54 starts and a 43% clear round rate at the 1.50m+ level (Jumpr stats), this pair is on an incredible trajectory together, especially here at tbird, having won the CSI4* Nations Welcome Qualifier earlier in the week.
Tiffany Foster, who won her first 5* Grand Prix at Thunderbird in 2023, set the time to beat with Electrique, the former ride of world number-one ranked jumper Kent Farrington. Electrique has a stride the size of Manhattan, which makes their rounds look deceptively relaxed, but they clocked in with a fault-free round in 42.240 seconds.
