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The 2008 CSIO Spruce Meadows 'Masters' Tournament was an international show jumping competition that took place from September 3 to September 7, 2008 at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping", "open jumping", or simply "jumping", is a part of a group of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation. Jumping classes are commonly seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics. Sometimes shows are limited exclusively to jumpers, sometimes jumper classes are offered in conjunction with other English-style events, and sometimes show jumping is but one division of very large, all-breed competitions that include a very wide variety of disciplines. Jumping classes may be governed by various national horse show sanctioning organizations, such as the United States Equestrian Federation in the USA or the British Showjumping Association in Great Britain. International competitions are governed by the rules of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports.
Spruce Meadows is an equestrian facility near Calgary, Alberta built by the Southern Family and opened in 1976. The show jumping complex is in the foothills of the Alberta Rocky Mountains just south of the city and comprises 360 acres (1.5 km2). The current president of Spruce Meadows is Linda Southern-Heathcott, a former Olympian who competed in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games for the Canadian Olympic Team.
Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, about 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The city anchors the south end of what Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor".
Nine teams of four riders competed in the $350,000 FEI Nations Cup event, the eighteenth event in the 2008 FEI Nations Cup series. There were two rounds to the event, with all teams placing and receiving financial prizes.
The Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or sometimes Can$ or C$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is divided into 100 cents (¢).
Team | Rider | Horse | Round 1 | Round 2 | Total | ||||
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Penalties | Time | Penalties | Time | Penalties | Time | ||||
1 | Lauren Hough | Quick Study | 4 | 82.31 | 8 | 83.70 | |||
Todd Minikus | Pavarotti | 0 | 82.65 | 0 | 82.82 | ||||
Richard Spooner | Cristallo | 0 | 84.24 | 0 | 81.86 | ||||
Rich Fellers | Flexible | 4 | 81.66 | 0 | 81.29 | ||||
4 | 248.55 | 0 | 245.97 | 4 | 494.52 | ||||
2 | Jill Henselwood | Special Ed | 4 | 78.50 | 16 | 82.58 | |||
Jonathan Asselin | Rayana Chiara | 8 | 81.07 | 4 | 83.81 | ||||
Eric Lamaze | Hickstead | 0 | 84.20 | 0 | 83.73 | ||||
Ian Millar | In Style | 0 | 83.82 | 0 | 81.68 | ||||
4 | 246.52 | 4 | 249.22 | 8 | 495.74 | ||||
3 | Holger Wulschner | Clausen | 0 | 81.11 | 4 | 82.20 | |||
Thomas Muehlbauer | Asti Spumante 7 | 0 | 83.10 | 4 | 83.60 | ||||
Marcus Ehning | Plot Blue | 0 | 82.17 | 0 | 84.89 | ||||
Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst | Lord Luis | — | 8 | 84.02 | |||||
0 | 246.38 | 8 | 250.69 | 8 | 497.07 |
Thirty-nine riders competed in the $1,000,000 CN International.
Rider | Horse | Round 1 | Round 2 | Total penalties | |||
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Penalties | Time (s) | Penalties | Time (s) | ||||
1 | Arko III | 0 | 89.361 | 1 | 81.443 | 1 | |
2 | Cavalor Cumano | 1 | 93.439 | 2 | 83.995 | 3 | |
3 | Cristallo | 4 | 85.543 | 0 | 75.676 | 4 |
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