Brits win third eventing Nations Cup leg
Great United Kingdom edged ahead of High German on the leaderboard afterwards winning its minute Nations Cup eventing contest on the trot, at Waregem inward Kingdom of Belgium at the weekend.
The Brits are simply 1 betoken ahead of the Germans, thus guaranteeing a thrilling finale at Boekelo inward Holland from Oct ix to 12.
A calendar week afterwards Britain’s triumph at Montelibretti (Italy), a novel all-female quartet of riders led from the start, beating the dwelling side, Belgium, past times to a greater extent than than fifty penalties. Deutschland was a unopen third, ahead of French Republic too the Netherlands.
Izzy Taylor (GBR) took the private honours on Orlando, amongst Lucy Wiegersma (GBR), who had 3 horses inward the locomote past times six, 4th on Simon Porloe. Laura Collett (GBR), riding at her kickoff major contest since beingness injured inward a autumn inward July, was 9th on Allora 3 too Sarah Bullimore (GBR) was 16th on Reve de Rouet.
“They worked difficult too all 4 produced corporation performances. Izzy’s win was a great bonus, Lucy was inward non bad shape amongst her 3 horses too it volition convey been a great boost for Laura,” said British squad manager Philip Surl. “It was a completely dissimilar kind of contest to the residuum of the serial inward that the cross-country is 7km away from the primary site. That agency you lot convey to live on organised near your course-walking, which is a useful challenge, too they all knuckled down,” he said.
The Belgian team, nether novel trainer Mark Phillips, was making a kickoff appearance inward the series. They retained minute house throughout, boosted past times an fantabulous leading dressage rank of 39.8 from their most experienced rider, Karin Donckers. She eventually finished 4th on Fletcha van’t Verahof, having picked upward 11.2 cross-country fourth dimension penalties on the undulating track.
No-one achieved the optimum time, but Izzy Taylor’s shine circular on novel ride Orlando for 3.2 penalties gave her a one-point winning margin over Donckers inward the concluding shake-up.
The Germans had an expensive jumping round. Pia Münker, who was good placed afterwards dressage on Louis M, incurred xvi faults, but Kai-Steffen Meier too his CCI4* ride TSF Karascanda one one thousand finished 5th individually to give-up the ghost on his squad correct on the heels of Belgium. In the halt at that topographic point was solely 0.8 of a punishment betwixt minute too tertiary house inward the squad standings.
The most influential combat on effect manager Tom Ryckewaert’s course of report was the skinny brush on a related downhill distance of either 4 or 5 strides to some other skinny at 18ab. This proved the downfall of the Dutch team, amongst ii riders, Remco Bouwens (Wotan) too Vera Grevelink (Udiana), retiring there.
Despite this, the squad has however moved upward to 4th house on the FEI Nations Cup Eventing leaderboard behind French Republic inward tertiary too volition convey the payoff of dwelling the world at Boekelo.
New Zealand, currently fifth, is expected to plain a potent squad for Boekelo, too the Germans, who dominated at Fontainebleau (FRA) too Aachen (GER) amongst leading riders such every bit Michael Jung, Ingrid Klimke too Dirk Schrade, are certain to free their ‘big guns’ 1 time to a greater extent than inward a bid to retain their 2012 title.
But Britain, who convey forthwith won 3 out of 6 legs, including their dwelling CCIO3* at Houghton, volition non live on giving upward without a fight. “We volition live on sticking to our innovation of using our exceptional FEI Nations Cup Eventing squad too convey some 6 riders to pick out from,” Surl said.
“I hoped all yr that the squad championship would come upward downwards to the in conclusion effect too it has.”
Results
1 Great United Kingdom 163.8 penalties
Izzy Taylor/Orlando, 50.0; Lucy Wiegersma/Simon Porloe, 53.8; Laura Collett/Allora 3, 60.0; Sarah Bullimore/Reve du Rouet, 64.8.
2 Kingdom of Belgium 218.0
Karin Donckers/Fletcha van’t Verahof, 51.0; Rik Geirmaert/Zaferlina MH, 64.0; Xavier Snackers/Ramses de Hurtebise Ewalco, 103.0; Lara de Liedekerke/Quella Langonnaise, Elim Jumping.
3 Deutschland 218.8
Kai-Steffen Meier/TSF Karascanda M, 54.2; Pia Münker/Louis M, 77.6; Benjamin Winter/Woolpit Amble, 87.0; Freja Füllgraebe/Oje Oje, 115.2.
4 French Republic 225.4
Donatien Schauly MDL/Cadiz, 68.2; Alexandra Martin/Praline de Ribaud, 69.2; Camille Lejeune/R’ Du Temps Blinierè, 88.0; Orlane Hillereau/Naome de Glain, 91.0.
5 Netherlands 2,098.4
Judith Anssems Janssen/Whitestone, 98.4; Vera Grevelink/Udiana, ret’d Cross Country; Remco Bouwens/Wotan, ret’d Cross Country; Iris Pemen/Weering’s Junior, W/D earlier Cross Country.
Leaderboard (after 6 of seven events) :
1 Great United Kingdom 48 points
2 Deutschland 47
3 French Republic 22
=4 Netherlands 18
=4 New Zealand 18
6 Italia 17
seven Commonwealth of Australia 15
8 Kingdom of Belgium 9
ix Sweden 8
10 Republic of Ireland 5
=11 Espana 4
=11 USA 4
Belum ada Komentar untuk "Brits win third eventing Nations Cup leg"
Posting Komentar