Class debut by teenage Olympic showjumper
US teenager Reed Kessler has had a successful Olympic debut, in addition to has paid tribute to London 2012 class designer Bob Ellis for his jumping class at Greenwich Park.
Kessler, 18, is the youngest passenger to stand upwards for the USA in Olympic showjumping, but she produced a mature surgical operation with Cylana unopen to British designer Ellis’s track, collecting simply 1 fourth dimension fault to qualify comfortably alongside the go yesteryear sixty riders.
“It’s a long championship, in addition to you lot don’t desire the horses to endure tired on the showtime day,” Kessler said.
“I intend Bob Ellis is a existent horseman in addition to he doesn’t tire the horses with huge jumping every unmarried day.
“You are going to come across huge jumping here, but the showtime solar daytime is to innovate everyone. It was technical plenty in addition to the fourth dimension was tight enough, but it volition endure much bigger every bit nosotros larn on.
“This was to a greater extent than of a warm-up for me, rather than the horse. I am the greenish 1 coming into this form of championship,” Kessler said.
“But it is too in addition to then much fun. This is similar a large opor-garai for me. Some people larn to a resort, others larn travelling, but this is what I do.”
Kessler oftentimes refers to Cylana every bit an overscoped equitation Equus caballus in addition to she looked the business office today with an immaculate jumping effort.
“I was excited,” said Kessler. “I was simply excited to go inwards the stadium, it has been a long 6 months leading upwards to this moment.”
Kessler won the USEF National Show Jumping Championship inwards March, which too served every bit the USEF Selection Trial for these Games. It was that endeavour which brought Kessler into the national spotlight – in addition to she hasn’t allow the score of her intensity waver.
“When there’s tens of thousands of people hither in addition to I’m wearing this ruby coat at that spot is no room for error,” said Kessler
“She’s bright all the time, she’s ever brilliant,” said Kessler of her ultra-consistent 10-year-old Belgian warmblood mare.
The showjumping squad contest starts on Sunday, which volition offering 2008 private bronze medalist Beezie Madden in addition to Germany’s Christian Ahlmann a run a endangerment to recover from disappointing performances on Saturday.
USA’s Madden was eliminated on Via Volo, patch 2011 World Cup winner Ahlmann collected fifteen faults with Codex One in addition to too saw his private medal hopes disappear.
The USA’s Chef d’Equipe George Morris commandeered some other enterprise endeavour out of his squad, he retires from this utilization at the goal of the year.
McLain Ward proved he is dorsum on cast later shattering his kneecap inwards January. He rode Antares F to a textbook clear over the rails to get the US’s endeavour off right. The 12-year-old Baden Wurtenburger gelding made calorie-free function of the track. Always stylish, the close white gelding remained beautifully rideable betwixt the fences for Ward. Ward won Team Gold twice with the mighty Sapphire (at the 2004 in addition to 2008 Olympic Games) jumping inwards the showtime spot on the team.
It has been a squad endeavour to larn Ward dorsum to the go yesteryear of his game since the injury, in addition to he takes his responsibleness to his back upwards crew seriously.
“We desire to hit good for our province in addition to for all the people behind us,” said Ward. “There is ever a lot of pressure.”
Ward too feels the added sense of occasion with Morris’ retirement.
“Especially for Beezie (Madden) in addition to I, we’ve had a corking decade with George in addition to I intend we’d similar to complete with a medal for him,” he said.
The team’s 2nd clear was jumped yesteryear the diminutive Irish Gaelic Sport Horse stallion Flexible with Rich Fellers on board. Unorthodox inwards his approach, Flexible attacked the class with the same enthusiasm with which he claimed the 2012 Rolex/FEI World Cup Final entitle inwards April. Never inwards danger of having a rail, Flexible has a radar for the fences.
“It was great,” said Fellers. “It was a prissy feeling to simply larn going because we’ve been preparing for this for a long time. Everything is simply absolutely showtime class.”
The 16-year-old veteran has been on an incredible winning streak. Fellers said he even in addition to then feels every bit proficient every bit he did when that streak started inwards April.
“He felt good, he was a picayune fighting on the fresh side but I prefer that for a long week,” said Fellers.
The surprise of the solar daytime came inwards the cast of Via Volo who was jumping in addition to then large in addition to and then difficult that she jumped herself into a pregnant amount of problem at 9a, the showtime business office of the 2nd of 3 double combinations. The 14-year-old Belgian Warmblood mare stopped twice with Madden cutting their fourth dimension inwards the outcry upwards short.
“She was jumping amazing in addition to I planned to hit the steady viii (strides) there,” said Madden. “In hindsight, the agency she was going I could ask maintain done seven. We simply jumped 1 out at that spot (in the warm-up) in addition to she was fine. Tomorrow I intend she’ll endure fine. She simply went in addition to then far left in addition to landed in addition to then dead I was heading for the standards.”
Madden said that sometimes she loses Via Volo’s rideablity, but that this was a unique circumstance for picayune mare.
“She hasn’t shown a lot this year, nosotros schooled her a picayune to come upwards hither but she was really impressed with the place,” said Madden. “She’s never done anything similar that before.”
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