Michael Jung takes Badminton dressage lead
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Eventing superstar Michael Jung punched the air inwards a rare exhibit of emotion equally he left the dressage arena at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials on Saturday.
The Olympic, World as well as European Champion straight off leads after the 2nd twenty-four hours of dressage on La Biosthetique Sam, amongst 36.0 penalties.
Jung, who is competing for the commencement fourth dimension at Badminton, was visibly thrilled past times the crowd’s reply to his superb test. Badminton is the fourth leg of the rich HSBC FEI Classics series, inwards which he is sitting inwards 6th place.
“There is a lot of atmosphere hither but Sam was relaxed as well as he did a fantastic job,” Jung said afterwards. “I didn’t know the outcome when I came out of the arena, but I had a rattling practiced feeling well-nigh it.”
Asked whether he felt nether pressure level to bear witness himself at Badminton, i of the few major prizes missing from his CV, 30-year-old Jung laughed: “Of class I was a piffling nervous, but I mean value the riders most nether pressure level hither are Andrew Nicholson as well as William Fox-Pitt!”
Of his ride on Sam, Jung said: “My Equus caballus was rattling concentrated as well as I experience it inwards the warm upwards – he’s rattling relaxed as well as concentrate to me as well as non to the spectators – I tin give the sack ride him as well as touching on him to the legs OK as well as he feels actually good.”
Looking toward the cross-country, Jung said he idea it was a overnice course. “You possess got long ways – yous tin give the sack larn actually fast forwards as well as yous tin give the sack possess got fourth dimension plenty to laid upwards the adjacent jump. It’s a actually practiced edifice from the class designer. You possess got a few jumps to larn into the class as well as many tricky fences but I mean value nosotros tin give the sack come across a rattling overnice course.”
Another Badminton first-timer, Italian regular army passenger Stefano Brecciaroli (ITA), was besides smile broadly when he left the arena. He as well as his magnificent Belgian-bred horse, Apollo VD Wendi Kurt Hoeve, presented an elegant motion painting as well as surprised no-one when they were the commencement distich to score nether xl penalties. The Italian duo are lying 2nd on 36.8 penalties.
Brecciaroli, who has won a CIC3* amongst Apollo on British soil this spring, was 2nd after dressage at the London Olympic Games in conclusion year, eventually finishing 19th. For the in conclusion month, the Italian has been based amongst his closed friend Andrew Nicholson (NZL), riding the Kiwi’s horses during his absence on his winning trip to Kentucky, as well as Nicholson has tipped Brecciaroli to win this weekend: “I’ve been educational activity him to larn much faster across country!”
Stefano Brecciaroli (Italy) as well as Apollo VD Wendi Kurt Hoeve are inwards 2nd going into the cross-country. © Nigel Goddard/KSDigital PhotographyJung’s 3 Olympic squad mates are all inwards the exceed 13. Dirk Schrade as well as the smart King Artus posted i of their best performances to slot into tertiary on 39.2; private Olympic bronze medallist Sandra Auffarth is inwards equal 7th house amongst a grade of 41.3 on Opgun Louvo, as well as Ingrid Klimke is 13th on Butts Abraxxas.
The ever-sporting Klimke set a practiced confront on what was, for her, a disappointing dressage grade of 44.2. “It was similar sitting on a five-year-old, non a 16-year-old,” she said of her double Olympic gilt medal ride. “He was thence relaxed outside, but the current of air as well as the clapping made him desire to modify legs all the time. That was non our best test!”
Rising New Zealand star Jonathan Paget as well as his Pau runner-up, Clifton Promise, are quaternary on 39.7. Paget has been preparation inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany amongst Jung during the wintertime as well as his fourth dimension amongst the High German supremo is evidently paying off handsomely.
Paget, 29, is pleased amongst Promise, a New Zealand thoroughbred on whom he was purpose of the bronze medal-winning squad at the London Olympics, 7th individually at the 2010 World Equestrian Championships, as well as 2nd at the 2012 4* Pau inwards France.
“Certainly that commencement one-half of his dressage exam was the best he has ever done,” said Paget. “Promise got a piffling excited going into the 2nd one-half but did good … rattling well.”
After getting disappointing marks amongst his 2nd mountain Clifton Lush on Friday, he was determined to come upwards out firing from the start.
“I idea Lush was perfect yesterday as well as didn’t set a pace out of house but they (the judges) didn’t give him the marks. I idea he should possess got been inwards the depression forties, but instead he’s on 48.2.”
The combination is inwards 24th equal place.
Paget is aiming to move clear as well as within the fourth dimension allowed on Sunday’s cross-country but he says it’s going to move tricky amongst a class that throws upwards constant challenges.
The Rolex Grand Slam is proving a thrilling sub-plot at Badminton as well as the 2 contenders could non move to a greater extent than closely matched. William Fox-Pitt is inwards 5th house on Parklane Hawk on 40.0 as well as Andrew Nicholson, the electrical flow HSBC FEI Classics leader, is sixth, a mere 0.2 of a penalization inwards arrears, on Nereo.
Nicholson is besides 14th on Avebury as well as Fox-Pitt is equal 16th with Oslo inwards a closely-packed plain inwards which 10 penalties covers the exceed xvi places.
Pippa Funnell (GBR), the alone passenger to possess got achieved the Grand Slam, 10 years ago, pulled off a superb slice of riding to move equal 7th on Redesigned, a Equus caballus who has been out of exceed degree contest for 3 years.
Nicholson, whose best Badminton outcome is 2nd behind Fox-Pitt inwards 2004, has been single-mindedly targeting the lawsuit for 6 months. “I’ve got 2 practiced horses that I possess got religious belief in,” he says.
“Avebury is the friendlier of the two, but he tin give the sack move naughty if he thinks he tin give the sack larn away amongst it. If yous don’t sentry him when yous plough him out, he’ll snatch the halter rope out of your paw as well as larn galloping around, having a laugh. Nereo, who is a fleck shy, is much to a greater extent than polite as well as is e'er 100% on your side.”
Of his exam on Nereo, he said: “The walk isn’t the easiest – naturally he hasn’t got a bright walk, simply amongst the photographers as well as the clicking of the cameras it got him a piffling jig joggy as well as it brand the rein dorsum a fleck quicker than it should be, but otherwise I idea he was rattling good.
“That’s purpose of these large events – straight off I suppose in that location are to a greater extent than taking photos – its all noticeable, but simply purpose of the sport. If the current of air was maybe blowing inwards a dissimilar direction as well as then yous never know, but its purpose of it all as well as you’ve simply got to possess got it equally it is.”
Nicholson said he was happy amongst his position: “I don’t similar beingness inwards the atomic number 82 after the dressage – I was inwards the atomic number 82 after the dressage hither in i lawsuit earlier as well as I finished second. And I was inwards 2nd house inwards Kentucky in conclusion calendar week as well as and then won – thence I’ll stick to that!”
Fox-Pitt besides commented on the cameras this year. “I’m rattling pleased amongst Parklane Hawk – he did a lovely test. It’s a shame that he made a fleck of a fluff of the rein dorsum – nosotros don’t ordinarily attain that. I mean value it was simply nerves as well as the excitement as well as you’ve got all the cameras this twelvemonth correct behind them. I could experience him non actually focusing on me as well as he lost his focus of attending for a 2nd – but he came dorsum actually good as well as I was very, rattling pleased amongst how he went.”
Fox-Pitt predicts that the anti-clockwise direction of the cross-country class – it is reversed each twelvemonth – offers the to a greater extent than rhythmic track. “I don’t mean value there’s a bogey fence,” he said, “but the cumulative consequence of thence many technical questions volition move influential. The in conclusion 2 to 3 minutes are peculiarly intense.
“We are hoping that it is a tough class – I surely am, especially non beingness inwards the atomic number 82 after the dressage myself, thence I shall move hoping it causes plenty of trouble!”
Shrade commented that class designer Hugh Thomas has produced every variety of enquiry possible. “I mean value he volition larn what every designer wants, amongst faults roughly the whole course. It’s rattling good designed.”
Additional reporting: Diana Dobson; Rolex.
Results after Dressage
1 Michael Jung/La Biosthetique Sam (GER) 36.0
2 Stefano Brecciaroli/Apollo VD Wendi Kurt Hoeve (ITA) 36.8
3 Dirk Schrade/King Artus (GER) 39.2
4 Jonathan Paget/Clifton Promise (NZL) 39.7
5 William Fox-Pitt/Parklane Hawk (GBR) 40.0
6 Andrew Nicholson/Nereo (NZL) 40.2
7= Sandra Auffarth/Opgun Louvo (GER) 41.3
7= Pippa Funnell/Redesigned (GBR) 41.3
ix Christopher Burton/Holstein Park Leilani (AUS) 43.0
10= Sam Griffiths/Happy Times (AUS) 43.3
10= Tiana Coudray/Ringwood Magister (USA) 43.3
Images below © Mike Bain
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