Ann Fonck and Rising Star Gunners Specialolena Win the AMERICANA €40.000-added NRHA Open Bronze Trophy

Photo courtesy of IHP Media Partner Dead or Alive Photo / AMERICANA 2019 Press Office
Photo courtesy of IHP Media Partner Dead or Alive Photo / AMERICANA 2019 Press Office

It took a qualifier and a final to bring home top honors in the NRHA Open with the highest added offered in Europe: the 2019 AMERICANA €40.000-added Open Bronze Trophy. NRHA Million Dollar Rider Ann Fonck went ahead and won with Diego and Laura Dalla Gassa’s Gunners Specialolena, a 5-year-old double registered AQHA/APHA mare by NRHA’s Three Million Dollar Sire Gunners Special Nite out of Dolly Jac Olena.

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Ann Fonck Tops the Euro40.000-added AMERICANA 2019 Open Bronze Trophy Qualifier

Photo by IHP Media Partners Dead or Alive Photo - Courtesy AMERICANA 2019 Press Office
Photo by IHP Media Partners Dead or Alive Photo - Courtesy AMERICANA 2019 Press Office

In a field of 20 entries, NRHA Million Dollar Rider Ann Fonck rode to a 221 top score riding Golden Paint Ranch's 8-year-old mare Spook N Perla (NRHA Five Million Dollar Sire Smart Spook x Shine On Ruff) and also qualified her two other horses: Gunners Specialolena (NRHA Three Million Dollar Sire Gunners Special Nite x Dolly Jac Olena) owned by Diego Dalla Gassa — after posting a 220.5 — as well as Made in Walla (NRHA Two Million Dollar Sire Walla Walla Whiz x Hollywood Made) for owners Sabine Lisec and Chuck Klipfel with a 218.

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