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Marie Hecart (FRA) rode Ryan Star du Rezidal to victory in the $6,000 Spy Coast 1.40m Speed Challenge Photo © 2010 Randi Muster/Mustphoto, Inc. Wellington, FL - Last proved to be the best in today's exciting Spy Coast 1.40m Speed Challenge at the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Marie Hecart of France rode Ryan Star du Rezidal, owned by Ashland Stables, to a very fast win in today's speed class, posting a time just four-tenths of a second faster than the second place finishers, Rodrigo Pessoa (BRA) and Palouchin de Ligny (left).

Margie Engle (USA) rode Tosca 290 to victory in the $30,000 WEF Challenge Cup Round Two. Photo © 2010 Randi Muster/Mustphoto, Inc., Official Sport Photographer of the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Wellington, FL - Margie Engle (USA) of Wellington, FL, returned to the winner's circle at the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) with Tosca 290, owned by Hidden Creek Farm, in the $30,000 WEF Challenge Cup Round Two.

Louise Serio was awarded the Western Hay and Suncoast Shavings Second Year Green Working Hunter reserve championship aboard Paige Cole's Kid Rock. Photo © 2010 Randi Muster/Mustphoto, Inc., Official Sport Photographer of the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Wellington, FL - Sunny skies illuminated the E.R. Mische Hunter Arena this afternoon as the professional hunters finished their second day of showing during week two of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival, which runs for 12 weeks through April 4.

David Jennings and Marcus Aurelius capture the first $2,500 Brook Ledge Open Welcome of the season at HITS Ocala. © ESI Photography. Ocala, FL  — With a touch of frost the week before, warmer days are ahead as HITS Ocala is officially underway at Post Time Farm. Exhibitors from far and wide are gathered in the 'Horse Capital of the World' for the best in show jumping this season."I’ve been coming to Ocala for seven years and it’s a great place to show," said Shane Powell, who rides and works for Mark Jungherr’s Starlite Farms of Amesbury, Massachusetts. "I love the real farm type atmosphere that exists here, it’s unlike most shows," he added. Arriving at the very beginning of the New Year, Powell plans on competing throughout the entire circuit in both the Hunter and Jumper divisions.