Hope Cooper’s Madelivia Wins PSG Future Challenge to Wrap Up AGDF 7

Hope Cooper & Madelivia. Photo ©Centre Line Media

Wellington, Fla. – February 22, 2026 — Two Hopes topped the Buffalo Wild Wings Prix St. Georges Future Challenge on Sunday, the headline class of the final day of week seven at the 12-week 2026 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington, FL. Hope Cooper (USA) took the win, with Australia’s Hope Beerling slotting into second.

Cooper rode JKS Dressage Horses, LLC’s nine-year-old mare Madelivia (Ferdinand x Chippendale) to 69.608%, collecting her ticket to the final during week 11 in the development series for up-and-coming small tour horses aged seven to nine. The series is designed to offer riders a chance to show their up-and-coming international-quality horses in a championship-type environment without the pressures of a CDI — such as having to stable away from home — so they can set them up for success at high-profile shows.

Beerling snapped up the other qualifying ticket with a 67.157% ride on Sarah Colson’s nine-year-old Escolar x Vitalis gelding, Esquire WS. Michael Klimke (GER) added another flag to the podium, slotting into third with 66.912% on Harmony Amateur Sports Foundation’s eight-year-old Harmony’s Freeport 2 (Foundation x Fürst Romancier). A rainbow collective of five nations was represented in the starting line-up of 10 combinations.

Cooper has been riding Madelivia for less than three months, after bringing together a partnership with her mother, USDF Gold Medalist Jane Karol, and co-owner Jennifer Silver to buy a horse intended for sale. However, that plan is fast evolving as Cooper taps into more of the mare’s talent.

“Caroline Rothman found her in Holland,” said the 29-year-old Cooper, who hails from Concord, Mass., and spends winters in Wellington. “I told Caroline I’d like a fun, willing little horse to develop, and she found exactly that. She’s much more than I expected. She’s turned into quite a special mare — dynamite in a little package.”

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