First Rolex watch for Andrew Nicholson
The rich vantage that is the HSBC Classics is closer to fruition for New Zealand eventer Andrew Nicholson, who rode Quimbo to victory inward the 3rd leg of the serial as well as his first-ever win of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event.
Nicholson has made no undercover of the fact that for him this flavor is “all close the HSBC FEI Classics – if William lets me!” and, at this halfway stage, he immediately holds a commanding 10-point atomic number 82 over William Fox-Pitt (GBR), who jumped clear to complete 2nd on Seacookie TSF.
This was Nicholson’s start Rolex watch, the 5th CCI4* win of his 30-year career, as well as the 3rd on the trot, next victories finally twelvemonth at Burghley as well as Pau.
Most significantly, it sets upward a head-to-head amongst Fox-Pitt inward the Rolex Grand Slam at Badminton this coming weekend.
He lay his electrical flow run of success downwards to: “The realisation close the variety of character of horses you lot ask demo as well as swell squad function at home. When it dawns on you lot that you’ve won a four-star contest on a immature horse, it’s a swell buzz, as well as this is no ordinary four-star.”
He said of Quimbo: “He’s a proper horse! He is especial as well as smart as well as really slow to ride. H5N1 win similar this is swell for the future. Nereo [Olympic bronze medallist] is my best Equus caballus at the minute because he’s a hardened campaigner, as well as Quimbo is the novel kid on the block, but I tin run into him nudging Nereo aside.”
Buck Davidson (USA), who finished best of the habitation side inward quaternary identify on Ballynoe Castle RM, hitting 2 rails, giving Nicholson a comfortable two-fence margin over Fox-Pitt. This meant that Nicholson, who was helped inward the warm-up past times the erstwhile Castilian passenger Luis Alvarez Cervera, could accept his fourth dimension as well as afford 3 fourth dimension penalties on the smooth-jumping Quimbo. He likewise finished 3rd on Calico Joe, dropping i identify when, every bit he had predicted, the Irish Gaelic Thoroughbred knocked 3 fences.
Nicholson has produced Quimbo since a youngster. The 10-year-old gelding, bred inward Espana past times Anna Beca, is past times Lacros, a boy of the overstep jumping sire Landgraaf. Nicholson has long favoured horses bred inward Espana on jumping lines. The mare Qwanza, bred on similar lines, was 7th at Kentucky finally year, as well as Nereo, which he volition ride at Badminton side past times side weekend, was bred past times Anna Beca’s blood brother Ramon.
Lynn Symansky (USA), who was competing amongst a broken finger, scored her best international upshot amongst a meteoric rising from 25th identify afterwards dressage to eventual 5th on her 10-year-old Thoroughbred gelding Donner, ahead of Will Faudree (USA) as well as Pawlow, sixth.
Canadian Olympian Hawley Bennett as well as the veteran Gin & Juice, Blue Planet silvery medallists inward 2010, rose from 29th identify to eventual 7th afterwards adding but 0.4 inward cross province fourth dimension penalties to a dressage grade of 59.8.
Buck Davidson was 9th on Mar de Amor, as well as gained a bonus prize amongst the two-year lease on a Land Rover due to existence the U.S.A. passenger nearest the optimum cross province time. Davidson admitted he was a petty disappointed amongst his 2 rails downwards inward the jumping stage on “Reggie”, but he said: “My petty Equus caballus was great. This is my 3rd national entitle hither [as highest-placed U.S.A. rider], all on 3 dissimilar horses. Maybe nosotros tin buy the farm on these New Zealanders as well as Brits away as well as I’ll win hither i of these days. But all my 3 horses are inward swell shape, as well as that’s exciting for me for the future.”
Peter Atkins (AUS) moved upward to tenth identify on Henry Jota Hampton, i of the most pop horses on the U.S.A. circuit. The most meaning changes to the finally social club were Kiwi passenger Jonelle Richards’ deviation from 7th identify when The Deputy incurred xx penalties, as well as the elimination of California-based British passenger James Alliston’s Tivoli, 9th overnight, at the finally Equus caballus inspection.
About the winner
Andrew Nicholson (NZL), 51, leader of the HSBC Rankings as well as the HSBC FEI Classics series, is acknowledged every bit i of the most hard-working as well as naturally talented horsemen inward eventing. He start came to England every bit a 19-year-old inward 1979 as well as worked amongst racehorses. His start CCI4* was Badminton inward 1984 where he earned a identify on the start New Zealand Olympic team, at Los Angeles. He went on to ride at v to a greater extent than Olympics, winning squad silvery inward 1992 as well as squad bronzes inward 1996 as well as 2012, when he finished quaternary individually on Nereo. He likewise won squad aureate at the 1990 FEI World Equestrian Games inward Stockholm (SWE), as well as squad as well as private bronze on Nereo at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games inward Kentucky (USA).
This is his 5th CCI4* win, next 3 Burghley victories – inward 1995 on Buckley Province, inward 2000 on Mr Smiffy, as well as inward 2012 on Avebury – summation Pau inward 2012 on Nereo. Last year, he won both the Blenheim CIC3* as well as Boekelo CCI3* on Quimbo as well as finished 2nd inward the HSBC FEI Classics 2011-2012.
Andrew has 2 adult daughters, Rebecca as well as Melissa, as well as 2 immature children, Lily as well as Zak, amongst his partner Wiggy Channer. They alive close Marlborough, Wiltshire.
HSBC Training Bursary
Meghan O’Donoghue (USA), a fellow member of the USA’s under-25 grooming squad, made a bright CCI4* début to win the HSBC Training Bursary worth $1000.
Riding her ain Pirate, an 11-year-old American Thoroughbred, O’Donoghue climbed from 25th identify afterwards the dressage stage to eventual 11th, adding entirely iv cross province fourth dimension penalties as well as 7 jumping penalties.
She rode inward her start CCI3* entirely finally year, finishing twelfth at Fairhill (USA) on Pirate, a Equus caballus she has produced from a youngster since she spotted him every bit a three-year-old on the racetrack, where he was existence used to ‘pony’ racehorses to the start. O’Donoghue previously worked every bit barn managing director as well as assistant trainer to January Byyny, as well as is immediately based inward Illinois.
Final results
1 Andrew Nicholson/Quimbo (NZL) 38 + 0 + 3 = 41
2 William Fox-Pitt/Seacookie TSF (GBR) 46.2 + 0 + 0 = 46.2
3 Andrew Nicholson/Calico Joe (NZL) 40.8 + 0 + 12 = 52.8
4 Buck Davidson/Ballynoe Castle RM (USA) 45.2 + 0 + 8 = 53.2
5 Lynn Symansky/Donner (USA) 54.8 + 0 + 0 = 54.8
6 Will Faudree/Pawlow (USA) 47.2 + 6.3 + 4 = 57.6
7 Hawley Bennett/Gin & Juice (CAN) 59.8 + 0.4 + 0 = 60.2
8 Kristi Nunnink/R-Star (USA) 55.3 + 4.4 + 4 = 63.7
nine Buck Davidson/Mar de Amor (USA) 55.2 + 0 + nine = 64.2
10 Peter Atkins/Henry Jota Hampton (AUS) 59.2 + 1.6 + 4 = 64.8
HSBC FEI Classics leaderboard (after 3 of 6 events)
1 Andrew Nicholson (NZL) thirty points
2 William Fox-Pitt (GBR) 20
3 Craig Barrett (AUS) 15
4 Jonathan Paget (NZL) 12
5 Natalie Blundell (AUS) 12
6 Michael Jung (GER) 10
7 Murray Lamperd (AUS) 10
8 Buck Davidson (USA) 8
nine Jessica Manson (AUS) 8
10 Lynn Symansky (USA) 6
Belum ada Komentar untuk "First Rolex watch for Andrew Nicholson"
Posting Komentar