Dutch duo claim first World Cup dressage blood
Dutch riders claimed the kickoff 2 places inwards the opening leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2012/2013 serial at Odense inwards Kingdom of Denmark on Sunday, amongst defending champions Adelinde Cornelissen in addition to Jerich Parzival scoring a convincing victory.
Edward Gal, serial champion inwards 2010 amongst Totilas, was minute amongst Blue Hors Romanov spell Danish riders filled the adjacent 2 places. Anna Kasprzak, at 22 years of historic menses the youngest contender inwards the Freestyle, pipped the considerably to a greater extent than experienced partnership of Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein in addition to Digby when slotting into third, spell Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven in addition to Don Auriello lined upward 5th for Sweden.
It was an exciting exam from Cornelissen whose career highlights include back-to-back Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage titles inwards 2011 in addition to 2012, double gilded at the 2011 European Championships, in addition to private silvery at this summer’s Olympic Games inwards London, all partnering the chestnut gelding who, at xv years of age, nevertheless sparkles.
The number was all the to a greater extent than remarkable for the fact that the 33 twelvemonth former Dutch passenger is altering her riding technique. Prompted yesteryear the words of Olympic Ground Jury President, Great Britain’s Stephen Clarke, who said after she finished behind British gilded medallist Charlotte Dujardin at Greenwich Park this summertime that Parzival needed to demo “more lightness in addition to self-carriage” inwards monastic enjoin to shell Dujardin’s ride, Valegro, Cornelissen is working on but that. And, equally she pointed out, “it’s getting amend in addition to better, in addition to it feels actually amazing!”
In Saturday’s preliminary Grand Prix, Cornelissen in addition to Parzival’s winning scoreline left them but over 3 percent points ahead of Kasprzak in addition to Donnperignon amongst Gal in addition to Blue Hors Romanov taking third. But on Sabbatum their winning margin was far greater.
The surprise packet of the Freestyle was the impressive opening surgery from Joachim Thomson in addition to the 10 twelvemonth former bay gelding Akeem Foldager who gear upward a high criterion when putting 75.150 on the board. Next in, Norway’s Siril Helljesen decided to retire when her exam amongst the 10 twelvemonth former mare, Dorina, savage apart.
Denmark’s Sidsel Johansen raised the game considerably when taking the atomic number 82 amongst a exam that was bubbling amongst enthusiasm in addition to a pleasance to watch. The xiii twelvemonth former Schianto produced lovely extended trot during a surgery that earned a grade of 77.300, but Cornelissen in addition to Parzival set the number beyond dubiety when, 2 horses later, they racked upward a massive 88.175.
They were non perfect all the agency through, experiencing what the passenger describes equally “some miscommunications” on both days of competition. As Cornelissen explained, “I’m doing things a niggling differently, so of course of report sometimes Parzival doesn’t clearly empathize yet. He says ‘what are you lot doing now?’, similar going from passage to canter it is slightly unlike in addition to he went into walk instead of canter. It takes fourth dimension to brand a change, but I’m actually happy amongst him in addition to how much repose he is showing,” she said.
It is all a long agency from the tense in addition to worried gelding who, but a few curt years ago, so frequently lost his nervus when nether the spotlight. “He’s enjoying it so much more,” Cornelissen said.
She had been planning to give Parzival a suspension when the Olympics were over, “but he didn’t similar it, he hated it after a calendar week of watching the other horses going out to practise things – he wants to operate in addition to he loves the attending in addition to the crowds these days, fifty-fifty the prize-giving!” she added.
It was her Dutch colleague, Gal, who came closest to her winning score riding the Danish-owned Oldenburg stallion Romanov. Gal, who took over the ride a twelvemonth ago, said the horse’s concentration is improving, and, similar Cornelissen, he is targeting the minute leg of the serial at Lyon, French Republic in addition to the 4th leg at Stockholm inwards Sweden over the coming weeks.
Kasprzak in addition to her xiii twelvemonth former Donnerhall gelding Donnperignon lead maintain thrown downwards a rigid challenge to their Danish counterparts amongst their first-class third-place complete at the season-opener.
Cornelissen meanwhile has shown that a hat-trick of Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage titles is good inside her reach. Parzival is retaining his ability in addition to presence despite the changes he is existence asked to make, in addition to is speedily adapting to his softer outline. He positively swaggered through his trademark passage/piaffe routine equally his exam drew to a close. He may live learning to practise it a chip differently, but he volition nevertheless live the ane to shell when it comes to the lastly inwards Gothenburg, Sweden adjacent April.
• The contest was the kickoff of viii qualifying rounds inwards the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2011/2012 series.
The lastly volition accept house inwards Gothenburg from Apr 24 to 28.
The panel of judges was: At E, Gustav Svalling (SWE); At H, Raphael Saleh (FRA); At C, Leif Tornblad (DEN); At M, Peter Holler (GER); At B, Hans Christian Matthiesen (DEN).
Princess Benedikte of Kingdom of Denmark attended today’s event.
Result: 1, Jerich Parzival (Adelinde Cornelissen) NED 88.175; 2, Blue Hors Romanov (Edward Gal) NED 80.650; 3, Donnperignon (Anna Kasprzak) DEN 77.825; 4, Digby (Nathalie zu Sayn–Wittgenstein) DEN 77.600; 5, Don Auriello (Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven) SWE 77.375; 6, Schianto (Sidsel Johansen) DEN 77.300; 7, Dablino FRH (Anabel Balkenhol) GER 75.625; 8, Akeem Foldager (Joachim Thomson) DEN 75.150; 9, Elvia VA (Nadine Capellmann) GER 74.800; 10, Uzzo (Patrick van der Meer) NED 74.675; 11, BMC Miciano (Marlies van Ballen) NED 72.800; 12, Furst Khevenhuller (Helen Langehanenberg) GER 72.075; 13, Donnerfee (Claudia Fassaert) 66.475; 14, Ferdi (Maria von Essen) SWE 61.250; 15, Dorina (Siril Helljesen) NOR Ret.
Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Standings after Round 1 at Odense
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