William Whitaker and Fandango won Friday's Longines Ranking class at the Sunshine Tour. Photo (c) Sunshine Tour.
The Whitaker-family has come strong in force to the Sunshine Tour, and today it was William that went to the top in the CSI3* 1.50 Longines Ranking competition.
With the 13-year-old gelding Fandango (Last Liberty 988 x Krocket 651), the British rider produced one of thirteen clear rounds to move on to the jump-off where he was the fastest one stopping the clock on 37.16 seconds. Over a second behind followed Ireland’s Richard Howley on Chinook (Tygo x Wellington) while Spain’s own Rutherford Latham took care of the third place aboard Ramses d’Auge (Hello Pierville).
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