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Tyler Lopes won the Freestyle test at the Children of the Americas Dressage Invitational with ascore of 76.608 per cent and place second overall in the competition. He placed secnd during his showing on October 2, with a score of 70 per cent in the FEI Children's Preliminary Test.

He was voted by his fellow competitors to ride the adult freestyle event on October 4, which was judged by the audience!

Michael Cherry, president of the Bermuda Equestrian Federation, said: "The BEF wishes to congratulate Tyler, one of our junior riders on this magnificent result against some of the best competitors from the Caribbean, North, Central and South America."

Lopes was also selected for the third time to represent Bermuda at the Children of the Americas Dressage Invitational in Concord, Massachusetts.

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