Week eleven of the 2014 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) continued in Wellington on Thursday with a win for Canadian Olympic Gold Medalist Eric Lamaze. Riding his new mount Zigali P S in the $50,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 11 Lamaze beat out Italy's Lorenzo de Luca and Elky van het Indihof and USA's Beezie Madden and Simon to take the top spot in a fifteen-horse jump-off. The day's jump-off provided a big track for the horses to really open up their strides and gallop, this suited Zigali and Lamaze perfectly. "He is so fast," Lamaze emphasized. "I have yet to even go fast on that horse. It feels great when you have a horse where, it doesn't matter who is leading, you feel like you have a chance to win, and with that horse I really feel like I have yet to even put the full throttle." In addition to the prize money in Thursday's class, Lamaze earned a special $3,000 bonus as part of the SSG 'Go Clean for the Green' promotion for wearing his SSG 'Digital' Riding Gloves. Each week of the Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Series, a $3,000 bonus will be awarded to the winning rider if they are wearing SSG 'Digital' Riding Gloves in all rounds of competition with the SSG logo clearly visible. source: World of Showjumping
