Olympics a step closer for ‘new’ Canadian
Canadian passenger David Marcus took to a greater extent than or less other pace on the route to the 2012 London Olympics, winning both the Grand Prix as well as Grand Prix Special at the CDI3* Canada Classic, an international dressage contest lastly calendar week inwards Ontario.
Having received his Canadian citizenship entirely inwards December, Marcus scored his showtime international grand prix victory alongside a win inwards Friday’s Grand Prix at the CDI3* Canada Classic. Riding Chrevi’s Capital, owned yesteryear Deborah Kinzinger, Marcus earned a score of 68.681%. The lastly ride of the hateful solar daytime belonged to 2008 Canadian Olympian Jacqueline Brooks aboard D-Niro, but her score of 68.234% was non plenty to knock Marcus out of top spot. 2011 Pan American Games Team Gold Medalist, Cesar Parra of the United States, scored 67.213% alongside Van the Man to house 3rd spell Marcus also took fourth, earning a score of 66.447% alongside Don Kontes, also owned yesteryear Kinzinger.
“Chrevi’s Capital had a personal best score of over 68%, fifty-fifty alongside a few pregnant mistakes,” said Marcus, referring to his Grand Prix exam on Friday.
“The mistakes were non inwards the hard movements, but inwards the extended trot, which is unremarkably a strong get for him, inwards the passage to canter transition, as well as thence I made a passenger error on the placement of my 2nd canter pirouette, which was real costly for me. Those are all things that are unremarkably quite strong for him so, going into Saturday, I knew they were slow mistakes to fix. To withal earn over 68%, fifty-fifty alongside those mistakes, was pretty great!”
In Saturday’s Grand Prix Special, Marcus widened the gap betwixt himself as well as the competition, posting a career-best score of 72.356% to win over Brooks who earned 69.578%. All v international judges awarded Marcus a score of over seventy percent, giving him non entirely the highest score of his grand prix career, but also 1 of the highest scores obtained yesteryear whatever Canadian dressage competition inwards the 2012 Olympic qualifying process.
Chrevi’s Capital, a 12-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding (Chrevi’s Lavallo x Weinberg), entirely began competing at the Olympic degree of grand prix inwards January.
“He is entirely v as well as a one-half months into his grand prix career, as well as he has already moved upwards 10 percent points inwards his scores from his grand prix debut to this competition,” Marcus said. “He withal wasn’t at total capacity, as well as I know at that spot is thence much to a greater extent than potential inwards there. I am excited to come across where he tin go!”
Previously ranked 5th overall inwards the race for a spot on the 2012 Canadian Olympic Dressage Team, Marcus expects to displace into 3rd house in 1 lawsuit the scores from the CDI3* Canada Classic are calculated. The Canadian Dressage Team volition accept 4 horse-rider combinations to the 2012 Olympic Games where iii volition compete spell the 4th acts equally the alternate.
For the yesteryear iii seasons, Marcus has been preparation alongside Robert Dover, a six-time Olympian for the United States.
“It was such an property to have got Robert hither for this competition, he gave me a lot of confidence as well as support,” said Marcus. “I give him a lot of credit for how far Chrevi’s Capital has come upwards inwards such a curt amount of fourth dimension as well as how happy as well as reliable he is inwards his work. I was thrilled that Robert was able to bring together me this weekend.”
In improver to Chrevi’s Capital, Marcus rode Don Kontes inwards the grand prix division. Having also made his grand prix debut before this season, Don Kontes had a serious setback inwards his preparation lastly summertime when he underwent colic surgery.
“We did the best nosotros could for where he is inwards his preparation as well as development,” said Marcus of the 12-year-old Swedish Warmblood gelding sired yesteryear Don Schufro who was bought from Sweden. “He is real dark-green inwards his grand prix career, as well as hasn’t yet had the mileage that Chrevi’s Capital has had. I know he is going to live cracking alongside to a greater extent than experience. I am thrilled to have got ii such high lineament grand prix horses.”
Don Kontes was originally bought inwards 2009 equally a mountain for his owner, but later on seeing the bond that formed betwixt Equus caballus as well as trainer, Kinzinger generously passed the reins over to Marcus.
As the possessor of Chrevi’s Capital as well as Don Kontes, Kinzinger was thrilled alongside the results at the CDI3* Canada Classic, peculiarly equally it takes Marcus 1 pace closer to representing Canada at the 2012 Olympic Games.
“This is a truthful ‘Cinderella story’ alongside everything meeting at the correct time,” said Kinzinger of the route to the London Olympics. “There is the man child from Nebraska who dreamed of 1 hateful solar daytime riding at the Olympics; the possessor whose greatest passion is for horses; as well as a six-time Olympian who has the vision as well as noesis to omnibus at the highest level. At the view of the story is the Equus caballus nosotros merely telephone phone ‘Capi’, whose view is equally large equally the Canadian flag nosotros promise to ride under.”
In improver to his ain success, David coached 4 students inwards the International Equestrian Federation (FEI)-sanctioned segmentation of the CDI3* Canada Classic. Ally Dunlop earned victory inwards the FEI Junior Team Test riding Danero spell Alexandra Reid won the Young Riders’ Freestyle alongside an impressive score of 69.12% riding V.I.P. As the CDI3* Canada Classic contest site inwards Burlington is located 10 minutes from Marcus’s preparation center, David Marcus Dressage, many of his clients as well as their friends as well as families came out to picket as well as support.
Having lived inwards Canada since he was eighteen years old, Marcus obtained Canadian citizenship on Dec 28, 2011, as well as made his Canadian Team debut inwards the CDIO3* Wellington Dressage Nations’ Cup inwards Florida inwards April. The CDI3* Canada Classic marked the showtime contest on Canadian lay down for Marcus equally a novel citizen. He volition adjacent compete at CDI3*Lexington, Kentucky, from May 24 to 27 before determining his adjacent pace on the route to the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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