When
Parris Rice and Javah Mon entered the Jim Norick Coliseum at the 2010
Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show for hunt seat equitation,
there were no tracks in the dirt. They were the first to go in the
15-rider final competition. Parris focused on how she had trained and
set a smooth, flowing line for others to follow. Meanwhile, Jamie Sutton
of the United Kingdom was warming up Slightly Overdressed, her 2002
sorrel gelding. Working 11th in the draw, she also set a smooth, clean
pattern. The two patterns were so similar that Parris and Jamie
tied. The first tie-breaker, dropping the high and low judges’ scores,
yielded another tie, so AQHA officials went to the second tie-breaker,
the opinion of the official tie-breaking judge, Dianne Grod. With that
opinion, Parris of Snohomish, Washington, was the world champion for the
second year on her 1998 bay gelding.
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