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Meg O'Mara thought when she had a rail in the jump-off of tonight's final round for the $15,000 North American Junior/Amateur-Owner Jumper Challenge Cup, that would be the end of her day. It turned out that her second and third places in the two rounds of the Challenge Cup left her tied with Kirstie Dobbs and Treesdale Farms' Eso, and another jump-off would be needed to determine the overall winner of the Challenge Cup, sponsored by ARIAT. With a clear round in the second jump-off, O'Mara and Mianta owned by Quiet Winter Farm and Redfield Farm, sealed their victory. The winner of the $10,000 Final Round, sponsored by The Oken Family, was Hayley Barnhill on Scotch, owned by Boggs Hill.

In yesterday's $5,000 First Round, sponsored by Kate Considine/Willow Brook Stables, Dobbs and Eso had the fastest speed round for the win. With that win and a fifth in the final round, Dobbs had 45 points, which tied her with O'Mara and Mianta, who finished third in the speed round and second in the final round.

For her Time First Round victory tonight, Barnhill was presented with the Remy Martin Perpetual Trophy, donated by Rolling Acres and Melanie Wright. Seventeen-year-old Barnhill, from Collierville, TN, has only ridden Scotch at one other show, but noted, “The horse is awesome. We don't know him that well, but he's so cool. He's so scopey.”

In the jump-off for the final round, she was the only clear trip. “I didn't know how he was going to go, but it was really fun. I'd never gone fast on him before, but we decided to just go for the clear round,” she explained.

O'Mara won the Best Junior Jumper Rider Award along with the ARIAT Congressional Cup, while Dobbs was named the Best Amateur Jumper Rider, sponsored by Lyman T. Whitehead and Eight Fences LLC.