Traverse City, Michigan, USA – August 05, 2023 – Natalie Dean (USA) had a great Saturday at the Flintfields Horse Park. Having already won the Grand Prix CSI 2* during the first week of the 2022 Major League Show Jumping (MLSJ) of Traverse City , this year, she moved up with Dotcom D’Athuit, claiming top honors in the $39,000 Winning Round CSI 5*, then she went on to take a repeat win in the $76,000 Cabana Coast Grand Prix CSI 2*, this time with Oasis van de Bucxtale. 

Coming back in good company, Dean was one of 15 combinations returning for the jump-off, all of which were clean. Held later in the day, with Oasis van de Bucxtale, Dean was in the winner’s circle again. She topped a 15-horse jump-off in the $76,000 Cabana Coast Grand Prix CSI 2*, the very class she had won last year with Dotcom D’Athuit.

“I took a risk to the last [jump] but she’s an amazing horse,” Dean said of Oasis van de Bucxtale, a 9-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare (Quinn VD Heffinck x Skippy II) “She’s still quite green at this level but every day gets better and I think she’s going to jump everything. I think she’s one of my top grand prix horses for the future.”

Acquired at the beginning of 2023, Oasis van de Bucxtale is already showing great promise, despite making her first attempts at the higher levels. “She’d never jumped the 1.45m and last week she did her first three-star grand prix,” Dean said. “This week it was nice for her to step down and jump the two-star. She’s just an unbelievable mare. She’s got some sass, but she’s all game.”

Final Results – $76,000 Cabana Coast Grand Prix CSI 2*

1) Natalie Dean (USA) & Oasis van de Bucxtale – 0 / 0 – 41.46

2) Darragh Kenny (IRL) & Eddy Blue – 0 / 0 – 41.96

3) Nayel Nassar (EGY) & El Conde – 0 / 0 – 42.02

Source: Press Release from Traverse City Horse Shows

Photos: © Andrew Ryback Photography / Megan Giese Photography

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