Another Victory in Pau for Tim Price and Jarillo

On paper, it almost looks boring: Nothing has changed at the top of the standings. All five leading pairs finished the CCI5*-L with the same scores they had after the cross-country. But when you’re there in person, it feels different, of course. Because every clear round by the pairs ranked fifth through first increases the pressure on the pair following them. If Tim Price’s Jarillo had knocked a fence down, he would have dropped to third place. But the 12-year-old son of Dantos didn’t do the competition that favor, and so Tim Price and the dark chestnut won the CCI5*-L in Pau—the season’s final highlight—for the second time in a row.

There have been riders who have won Pau twice before. In 2003 and 2004, Sweden’s Linda Algotsson took the top spot with Stand by Me and My Fair Lady. However, at that time, the tournament was still classified as a three-star World Cup event, which corresponds to today’s four-star level. At the five-star level, William Fox-Pitt (GBR) won in 2011 on Oslo and in 2013 on Seacookie TSF. Tim Price took the top spot in 2021 with Falco and again last year with Jarillo. He is now the first rider to have won the top spot in France three times and the first to have done so twice in a row at the five-star level.

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. Britain’s Bubby Upton on Its Cooley Time also managed to hold on to second place. The pair were two penalty points behind Price, 32.9 to 30.9. That was also the final score.

Jonelle Price took third place riding her Holsteiner, Senor Crocodillo, a son of Connor. The 12-year-old gelding, bred by Anke Siewertsen, is a nephew of the Danish 1.60-meter-class successful stallion Boegegaardens Apollo. Senor Crocodillo competed in his first show jumping classes in Baden-Württemberg, riding under Tina Waschka and Annika Link at the time. Samantha Lissington then introduced him to international competition, and Jonelle Price has been riding him since late 2022. Luhmühlen 2025 marked his first five-star start, where he finished 13th. In Pau, they placed tenth, and in between, the pair competed in two four-star tournaments as well as the World Championships in Aachen, where they finished 39th, however, placing them more among the “also-rans.” Today’s result was significantly better: their first top-3 finish with a personal best of 34.6 penalty points.

Tim Price was quite busy. His second horse in the competition, the KWPN gelding Happy Boy by Indoctro, was ridden by the world’s number one rider to a fourth-place finish. Rounding out the top five was team world champion and Olympic gold medalist Tom McEwen with his promising young horse Quintus, who also finished with the 36.6 penalty points he had accumulated when he galloped across the finish line in the cross-country course yesterday. Quintus is also one of the horses earning points for the Holsteiner Verband at the WBFSH Ranking is racking up wins—and will likely continue to do so for a few more years, since he’s only nine years old. The Quibery son was born to Hobe Magens. He comes from the same bloodline that produced the 1.60-meter show jumping stallion Chatman, who in turn is the sire of Ingrid Klimke’s Kallista. Jessica Magens had competed him in a handful of show jumping classes before he moved to England, where he came under the saddle of Tom McEwen in 2024. Pau was his first five-star start.

No Hard Work, No Price

Both Tim and Jonelle Price had a total of three horses competing in Pau. Jonelle finished in the top ten with all three. The KWPN mare Grappa Nera by Karandsj, with whom she had claimed victory in Pau in 2022, placed eighth this time (46.4). Right behind her was the Zangersheider gelding Capitaine de Hus Z by Consinhus (50.5). Both had one jumping fault each today.

Tim Price’s third horse was the 10-year-old Garcon by Eldorado van de Zeshoek, who finished 16th in his five-star debut after also having one knockdown today.

Six horses at the start, five in the top ten—what a weekend for the Prices!

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Four of yesterday’s cross-country finishers

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today’s second fitness test; all had competed under the British flag: Stephen Heal with Hisco (18th after the cross-country), Heidi Coy on MGH Jessica (32nd), and Izzy Taylor, who still had two horses left to ride—PSH Encore (21st) and SBH Big Wall, who, in sixth place, had been in contention for a top-ten finish.

You can find all the results here.