Lillie Keenan Off and Running with Highway TN in Palm Beach Equine Clinic Grand Prix
Lillie Keenan & Highway TN. Photo ©Sportfot
Wellington, Fla. – January 17, 2026 — Under the bright beams of Saturday Night Lights at Wellington International, Lillie Keenan and Highway TN made a stunning debut by winning the $50,000 Palm Beach Equine Clinic Grand Prix during Week 2 at the 2026 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF).
USA’s Keenan took over the ride on Highway TN, owned by Team Nijhof, for the 2026 competition season and lived up to expectations during their first grand prix outing.
“I’m incredibly blessed that I got this opportunity,” said Keenan of her recent lease of the 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion (Eldorado Vd Zeshoek TN x Chellano Z), previously ridden by Dutch Olympian Willem Greve (NED). “The relationship that he and Willem have — I can’t replicate that — but he educated the horse so beautifully. I know there’s nothing I’ll do that he hasn’t already done. Tonight, I wanted to get to know him and start to develop our own partnership.”
With Greve, Highway TN won the Rolex Grand Prix at the 2024 Dutch Masters and competed at the 2025 FEI World Cup™ Final in Basel, Switzerland.
“I’ve always admired the horse’s ferocity,” said Keenan after years of watching the stallion compete. “He’s very different than my other horses, and I think he’s going to make me a better rider. When the potential opportunity presented itself to have the ride, it was a no-brainer.”
Luis Fernando Larrazabal Triumphant Once Again in Hermès 1.50m Classic
Luis Fernando Larrazabal of Venezuela claimed his third major victory of the week in the $32,000 Hermès 1.50m Classic aboard Ribery on the grass derby field during Week 2 of WEF.
On Friday, Larrazabal took the win in the $32,000 Adequan® WEF Challenge Cup Round 2 with his 11-year-old Westphalian mount, Baroness, and Saturday prevailed once again by topping the podium with Sabrina Lefebvre’s Ribery, a nine-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare by Aganix du Seigneur.
“I can see that my horses are jumping their best, so I’m very excited and enjoying this moment because it doesn’t last forever,” said Larrazabal of his back-to-back wins.
John Ingram and Cheers! Make an Exciting Start to 2026
The E. R. Mische Grand Hunter ring championed the Stefano Ricci 3’3” Amateur-Owner Hunter 36 & over, on Saturday afternoon during Week 2 of WEF. Champion honors were awarded to John Ingram of Nashville, TN and Cheers!, owned by John & Stephanie Ingram. The duo topped the charts after winning the under saddle and earning a blue and red rosette over fences, with scores as high as 87.
“This is a newer horse for us and actually a horse that’s for my daughter, Martha,” said Ingram of the 12-year-old Holsteiner gelding. “He came from a client of Victoria Colvin’s who decided to move into the jumper arena, and we’re lucky we got him.”
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