Jason Walter in action last weekend. - Contributed

Show-jumping has an emerging star in 12-year-old Jason Walter, who not only successfully represented Jamaica aboard recently but swept the FEI children's event at the Kingston Polo Club, Caymanas Estates, last weekend.

Walter, a student at Wolmer's High Boys' School, topped a field on 59 young show jumpers from around the world in a recent international competition in Bogota, Columbia. He was accompanied by national coach Betty Wates, who spoke highly of his development.

Captured competition

Walter returned home on July 2 and last weekend captured the FEI competition in the 12-14 age-group aboard the bay horse Gemini. In addition, he swept three other show-jumping events on the weekend aboard his horse, Queenie.

In the FEI children event, Walter finished ahead of Adam Black, with Joseph Adams and Lackiese Leslie rounding off the top four in a field of 10 competitors.

On the same weekend at the Kingston Polo Cub, top junior Bianca Fedele won the Toyota Grand Prix show jumping event aboard her horse, Dusty. She beat Susan Wates aboard Miss Fran in a field of eight.

Fedele, 17, is scheduled to leave the island today, along with 13-year-old Stephen McConnell, to represent Jamaica in a show jumping competitions in Stuttgart and Hanover, Germany, over the next two weeks. Wates will accompany them.

-O.C.