Steffen Peters announces Ravel’s retirement
US dressage lynchpin Steffen Peters together with Ravel carried the weight of a nation into master copy arena for their Olympic dressage freestyle on Thursday, but didn’t cause got the 24-hour interval they were hoping for.
Ravel, who has been thus reliable through the final iv years, was visibly distracted during his exam at the Greenwich Park venue for London 2012. Mistakes meant the grade suffered at 77.268%.
The 14-year-old KWPN gelding owned yesteryear Four Winds Farm was 4th individually at the 2008 Olympic Games, he won the 2009 Rolex FEI World Cup Final, the 2009 Aachen CDIO, won 2 Bronze medals at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games together with has twice been the USEF National Grand Prix Dressage Champion. He’s a modern 24-hour interval legend for the American sport. But London 2012 was non his time.
The contest was won yesteryear Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin alongside a historic 90.089% on Valegro, with Adelinde Cornelissen together with Parzival winning silverish for The Netherlands, together with Britain’s Laura Bechtolsheimer on Mistral Hojris winning bronze.
“I had a super warm-up but he was definitely a fleck distracted,” Peters said. “He kept looking but about inward the trot extensions together with the canter extensions. If yous recollect Ravel for his career together with yous pose it all together – this is but a lilliputian glitch today.
For Peters, from San Diego, California, the disappointment was made greater yesteryear the fact that he together with Ravel’s owners Akiko Yamazaki together with Jerry Yang cause got made the hard determination to retire their wonderful horse.
“It is really distressing that it happened at the halt of his career but I nonetheless dearest him,” said Peters. “He has given us thus much but non quite today … he was but distracted inward there.”
There were some wonderful moments inward Ravel’s operate equally always, together with the grade of difficulty, including the two-time changes on a circle, which Peters said they added today. He finished his exam alongside riding passage alongside i hand.
“He owes us nothing,” said Peters of Ravel. “We owe him everything.”
• Dutch dressage passenger Anky van Grunsven likewise announced earlier London 2012 that the contest would hold out the final for her multiple gilded medalist Salinero.
The German-bred hanoverian gelding (Salieri x Luna by Lungau) is instantly aged 18. With van Grunsven, he won private gilded dressage medals inward Athens inward 2004, together with Beijing inward 2008, together with likewise won squad silverish inward 2008. They won squad bronze at London 2012.
Salinero was retired from top grade events inward 2010, but next an injury to Upido, van Grunsven brought him dorsum into operate for her bid for the 2012 Olympics.
Before Thursday’s freestyle, van Grunsven said: “I desire to produce the best Freestyle I can. I came hither for a squad medal, to contribute to the bronze. We did that together with I am thus happy most that! I desire to exit this entitle alongside a proficient feeling.
“And London is a dandy upshot to produce my final Freestyle alongside him. After the Olympics I volition foremost alongside Upido over again together with hopefully compete him this Winter season,” she said.
After his tests, Salinero is reportedly rewarded alongside bananas.
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