WELLINGTON, Fla.–Lillie Keenan on Fasther won the $215,000, CSI4* Grand Prix on Saturday evening, Jan. 24 during Saturday Night Lights at the Winter Equestrian Festival.
With her sights set firmly on the 2026 World Championships, Keenan, 29, beat a field that included two Olympic champions and five of the world’s top 10 over a course set by Canadian Peter Grant.
A daring rollback to the third fence and a leave-out in the final line gave Keenan the eventual win by three-tenths of a second.
Irish Olympian Shane Sweetnam on Rural Juror SCF came the closest to Keenan’s time of 40.56 seconds, finishing second in 40.87 seconds ahead of Australian Olympian Thaisa Erwin on Hialita B, third in 41.28…