March 7, 2018 
“She’s a chestnut mare, and one thing I’ve found out that I should have known already is that she’s a typical chestnut mare.”
That was confirmed ginger Daniel Coyle (IRL) talking about his spectacularly dappled partner, Tienna.
The red-haired duo captured the $35,000 Douglas Elliman 1.45m Jumpers CSI 5* at the Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in Wellington, FL on Wednesday.
“She really likes to go her own way,” continued the 23-year-old rider. “If you get involved with her way of going too much, she really doesn’t like it. If that’s the way she likes to go and the way she likes to win, then of course, that’s it.”
Contesting a power and speed course designed by Ireland’s Alan Wade, Coyle and the ten-year-old Canadian Sport Horse mare shaved two hundredths of a second off the leading time set by countryman Shane Sweetnam and Cyklon 1083 (28.70 seconds) to stop the clock at 28.50 seconds. Santiago Lambre (MEX) finished just a hair behind to take third on Doloris in 29.04 seconds.
“She’s a homebred, which makes it a little more special for Ariel [Grange] and the farm,” said Coyle of Tienna. “She’s always been one of my favorites. To get a win here today, and it was very competitive, there was very little room for any mistakes. There was no real difference at the top.”
Nor in the color of horse, one could argue.
