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Wilhelm Genn and Palim Palim Top $25,000 CitiBank New Year's Grand Prix.
Wellington, FL – (December 26-30, 2012)
The $25,000 New Year's Grand Prix, sponsored by CitiBank, was held on Sunday, December 30,
with 24 entries jumping a course set by Mauricio Garcia Ballesteros of Puerto Rico. Eight of the
original entries jumped clear over the first round course to advance to the jump-off, and six of
those went double clear. Wilhelm Genn and Nancing Gooding’s Palim Palim had the fastest time
of 41.070 seconds for the win.
Palim Palim, is a ten-year-old Westphalian gelding by Polytraum. Wilhelm Genn has been riding
the gelding since May of this year and was excited to get the win this weekend.
“He is fairly green at that level,” Genn said. “I don’t know how many grand prix he has done, but
I don’t think he has jumped more than 15 grand prix. He is a good horse. I think with a little more
experience he can start doing some World Cup classes too.”