Palm Beach Illustrated and Villa Del Lago/Casablanca withdraw from Bobby Barry Cup semifinals
Villa del Lago/Casablanca (Jim Zenni, Agustin Obregon, Polito Pieres and Inaki Laprida) and Palm Beach Illustrated (Jared Zenni, Facundo Obregon, Magoo Laprida and Tommy Collingwood) have withdrawn from the semifinals of the Bobby Barry Cup allowing the next two teams in order and from that bracket, to assume positions in the subsidiary, the Bobby Barry Cup. The Bobby Barry Cup semifinals (a subsidiary of the Joe Barry Memorial Cup) will get started at 10am with Flight Options (Melissa Ganzi, Fred Mannix, Miguel Astrada and Juan Bollini) battling El Cabure (Federico Virasoro, Carlucho Arellano, Agustin Merlos and Stevie Orthwein).
Additionally, Audi (Marc Ganzi, Carlitos Gracida, Nic Roldan and Nico Pieres) requested a time change, moving their match against Orchard Hill (Steve Van Andel, Lucas Criado, Facundo Pieres and Marcos Alberdi) from 10AM to 1PM in the Bobby Barry Cup semifinals.
Lechuza Caracas (Victor Vargas, Mariano Gracida, Pablo MacDonough and Nico Espain) and Faraway (Hutton Goodman, Martin Pepa, Santiago Chavanne and Mariano Gonzalez) were not able to qualify for the subsidiary and will compete in a consolation match on Friday, January 24, with the time to be announced. Los Monjitas (Camilo Bautista, Geronimo Obregon, Eduardo Astrada and Alejandro Astrada) and CT Energia (Alessandro Bazzoni, Kris Kampsen, Joao Ganon and Nick Manifold) will also compete in a consolation match on Sunday, January 26th at 10AM.
The schedule for the Joe Barry Memorial Cup semifinals remained unchanged, with Los Machitos/Heathcote (Steve Lefkowitz, Sterling Giannico, Mariano Aguerre and Matias Magrini) meeting Tonkawa (Jeff Hildebrand, Gonzalito Pieres, Rodrigo Andrade and Tomas Alberdi) at noon on Thursday, January 23rd followed by a 3PM contest between Valiente (Bob Jornayvaz, Santi Torres, Sapo Caset and Roberto Zedda) and Coca-Cola (Gillian Johnston, Jeff Hall, Julio Arellano and Nick Morrison).
The withdrawal of the two Zenni teams (Villa Del Lago/Casablanca and Palm Beach Illustrated) is seen as a strategic move to save the horses for the upcoming Ylvisaker Cup.