Flying start for Lucinda in Luhmühlen four-star
Australia’s Lucinda Fredericks produced a bright dressage exam on Flying Finish to caput the champaign of 44 inwards the CCI four-star shape at the Luhmühlen International Horse Trials inwards Germany.
The number is the 2d to final leg inwards eventing’s HSBC FEI Classics.
The Ground Jury of Jennie Loriston-Clarke (GBR), Christina Klingspor (SWE) as well as Christoph Hess (GER) awarded her the score of 31.8, 1 of vi to come upwardly inwards nether the forty barrier.
Fredericks has a one-penalty atomic number 82 over the 2009 winner as well as electrical current basis as well as European champion Michael Jung (GER), best of the abode side on CCI4* first-timer Leopin. Andrew Nicholson (NZL), the solely passenger who tin overtake HSBC FEI Classics leader William Fox-Pitt at this stage, is inwards unopen disceptation inwards 3rd house alongside Mr Cruise Control.
Andrew Hoy (AUS) on Rutherglen, final year’s winner Andreas Dibowski (GER), on FRH Butts Avedon, as well as Oliver Townend (GBR), who conjured a best always CCI4* score from novel ride Armada, a Equus caballus that tin last explosive inwards this phase, likewise scored sub-40 marks.
“I can’t believe I’ve beaten Michael Jung!” said Fredericks. “But I withdraw maintain simply watched a video of our exam as well as I experience my Equus caballus did deserve the score equally it was lovely.
“I don’t intend I’ll all the same last inwards the atomic number 82 later cross soil as, although he’s a rattling practiced jumping horse, he’s inexperienced, as well as I volition in all likelihood teach a few fourth dimension penalties. But equally long equally I complete inwards a practiced place, I volition last rattling happy. Who knows? We powerfulness fifty-fifty last needed for Greenwich inwards vi weeks’ time!”
Fredericks bought the 10-year-old Flying Finish, a Holsteiner/Thoroughbred cross yesteryear Candillo, 2 years agone from a riding schoolhouse close Stuttgart, Germany, for possessor Donald Reid to ride. However, she has taken over the ride on the gelding as well as has been placed inwards vi CIC3* events, equally good equally a 2d house behind Olympic squad gilded medallists Ingrid Klimke (GER) as well as Butts Abraxxas at Vairano CCI3* (ITA). It is the horse’s offset start at four-star level.
Fredericks, a squad silvery medalist at the 2008 Olympics, is 1 of an elite grouping of riders (William Fox-Pitt, Mary King, Pippa Funnell as well as Andrew Hoy) to withdraw maintain won the Badminton, Burghley as well as Kentucky CCI4*s – she achieved all iii on Headley Britannia.
She describes Mark Phillips’s cross-country runway equally “pretty meaty. Every natural springtime is large as well as there’s a stack of broad fences. There’s a lot to natural springtime inwards 10 minutes. The basis is fast but good, as well as the pelting we’re simply getting forthwith volition last good. I’m looking frontwards to the challenge.”
Results later Dressage
1 Lucinda Fredericks/Flying Finish (AUS) 31.8
2 Michael Jung/Leopin FST (GER) 32.8
3 Andrew Nicholson/Mr Cruise Control (NZL) 34.7
4 Andrew Hoy/Rutherglen (AUS) 34.8
5 Andreas Dibowski/FRH Butts Avedon (GER) 35.2
6 Oliver Townend/Armada (GBR) 39.5
7 Peter Flarup/Calista eastward (DEN) 40.0
8 Charlotte Agnew/Out Of Africa Two (GBR) 40.8
9 Francis Whittington/Easy Target (GBR) 41.5
10 Andrew Nicholson/Calico Joe (NZL) 41.7
HSBC FEI Classics 2012 Leaderboard (after 3 out of v events, due to cancellation of Badminton):
1 William Fox-Pitt (GBR) 30
2 Andrew Nicholson (NZL) 16
3 Stuart Tinney (AUS) 15
4 Alison Springer (USA) 12
v Sonja Johnson (AUS) 12
6 Boyd Martin (USA) 10
vii Emma Mason (AUS) 10
8 Mary King (GBR) 8
ix Karen O’Connor (USA) 8
10 Natalie Blundell (AUS) 8
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