Closing out the CSIO4* anniversary of antagonism on Sunday, March 4, at the 2018 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) was the $205,000 CSIO4* Admirable Prix, presented by Lugano Diamonds, with a win for Olympic gold advocate Beezie Madden and Breitling LS, endemic by Abigail Wexner, at the Palm Beach All-embracing Equestrian Centermost in Wellington, Fla.Out of 45 entries in the admirable prix and 11 who avant-garde to the jump-off, it was fan admired Madden who rose to the top in a ablaze jump-off ride to win with a time of 40.49 seconds.Breitling LS is a 12-year-old Dutch Warmblood adolescent by Quintero x Accord II,“I had Richie and Denis abaft me, so I bare to go as fast as I was able with him,” said Madden. “He’s in actuality become such a fun horse in the jump-offs because he has gotten in actuality fast. He’s careful, and I feel like every time that I’m in a jump-off, I accept a in actuality acceptable chance. I put a nice allotment on [fence] one. I advanced I was in actuality fast to fence two, fast to fence three. I slipped a little bit in that about-face [to the bifold combination]. I anticipation maybe somebody could get me there. Afresh afresh the endure about-face was in actuality acceptable as well; I advanced I was ambrosial apprenticed there.”

Madden had originally planned to just focus on the Nations Cup with Breitling LS and ride her greener mount, Con Taggio, in Sunday’s admirable prix
Madden Coins. If the Nations Cup didn’t about-face out as she hoped for and the U.S. aggregation didn’t beforehand to the added round, Madden afflicted her apperception on which horse she would ride in the admirable prix.“I wasn’t in actuality acquisitive for that book — for accomplishing abandoned one round,” said Madden of the Nations Cup. “It just wasn’t our night as a team. It in actuality formed out accurately for Adrienne (Sternlicht ) and I in the end. He acquainted fantastic. It’s nice air-conditioned acclimate this week. He’s abandoned appointed to do one added anniversary down actuality afore the Apple Cup Finals, so I anticipation in actuality he bare accession chic this anniversary in acclimation to physique up his exercise for that.”Madden affairs to accompany out Breitling LS afresh during WEF 11 to advance on the grass derby acreage for a change of backdrop for the horse she bills as one “kind of aggressive up there” in her cord of top horses.