Sweetnam wintering well in Florida

Shane Sweetnam scored a third place in yesterday’s feature class on day two of the $4m FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, having notched up back-to-back victories on Wednesday.

Riding Siri, he finished over half a second behind Brazilian Rodrigo Pessoa on HH Let’s Fly in the $30,000 jump-off class.

“I’ve had her about a year,” he said of Siri, an 11-year-old Swedish warmblood mare. “She was quite green when I got her, but she has come along in the last six months. She has a lot of talent and now I think she is ready to be competitive.”