ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell University equestrian team will look to pick up where it left off in the fall when it opens the second half of its season on Sunday, Feb. 18, with the Cornell Show at the Oxley Equestrian Center. 

Notes on the Big Red 

• The Big Red finished first in five of its six shows in the fall. It finished second at the first Nazareth Show on Nov. 18. 

• Cornell finished with a perfect scorecard at the first Cornell show on Oct. 22. 

• That was Cornell's first of two perfect scorecards of the fall season. The second came at the Alfred Show on Nov. 4. 

• Head coach Joanna Novakovic, in her 10th season in charge of the Big Red, said that marked the first time her team posted two perfect scorecards in a row. 

Last Time Out 

• The Big Red recorded second- and first-place finishes at the Nazareth show on Nov. 18 and 19. 

• Cassandra Beckmann (open fences), Riley Gerardo (open flat), Caly Stewart (intermediate fences and limit flat), Emily Kolodner (intermediate fences), Emily Pecsok (limit flat), Sunny Liu (novice) and Uma Comfort (introductory) recorded first-place finishes during the two-day event. 

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Cornell competes at the Alfred Show on Saturday, Feb. 24.