Uruguay dominates Pan-American endurance champs
Uruguay made a build clean sweep of the FEI Pan-American Endurance Championships for Seniors, Young Riders & Juniors for the 2nd twelvemonth running in conclusion weekend
They took Team together with Individual gilded on habitation turf at the hippodrome inwards Trinidad, the upper-case alphabetic lineament urban pith of Flores inwards southern Uruguay.
Chile claimed bronze inwards the Senior category together with squad argent inwards the Junior/Young Rider category, with Brazil completing the squad medal business out with argent inwards the Senior Championship.
Uruguay, next their success in conclusion year, were aiming high from the outset. The Senior together with Junior/Young Rider Championships had a starting champaign of 21 Equus caballus together with passenger combinations apiece with representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, the USA together with of course, in conclusion year’s Champions Uruguay.
Following a recent conversion to a top-of-the-range endurance facility, the hippodrome provided a keen base of operations for teams together with horses alike.
The Pan-American Championships is run over a distance of 120km together with this year’s course of written report was made upwardly of 4 loops, the in conclusion of which was repeated resulting inwards a 5 loop rival – ever an payoff to those athletes with horses that introduce rapidly inwards a vet gate. The course of written report was fairly apartment together with covered predominantly province dirt roads with the occasional controlled highway crossing. The rails took on the similar a shot familiar clover leafage construction with all loops arriving together with departing on the master copy race rails of the hippodrome.
The rival was tight inwards both categories, but equally the solar daytime progressed, Uruguay ensured that victory would endure theirs i time again. The Senior Individual Championship, with a minimum riding weight of 75kg, was won past times the immature Uruguayan Oriana Ricca aboard the eye-catching Amarillo HLM. At exclusively 17 years old, she also of late finished 4th inwards the Junior/Young Rider World Championships inwards Tarbes (FRA) together with also won bronze inwards the 2011 World Championships. Whilst remaining inside sight of the leaders all day, she waited until the latter stages of the race to deed to the front. In doing so, she ensured that her 11-year-old stallion remained inwards 1st seat on the in conclusion loop crossing the business 27 seconds inwards front end of Argentine Gabriel Morgui together with his 10-year-old mare HLP Astica. Bronze went to Uruguay equally 10 minutes afterwards the 9-year-old gelding JG Safi Zafra ridden past times Nicolas Rodriguez Villamil crossed the line. Villamill won gilded inwards the Junior/Young Rider Pan-American Championships in conclusion year.
With 3 combinations finishing inwards the top 5, Uruguay took squad gilded with ease inwards a total fourth dimension of 17:13:01, good over i sixty minutes ahead of second-placed Brazil. Finally Chile, the exclusively other state to require maintain 3 successful finishers, took bronze with a finishing fourth dimension of 19:19:25.
The Junior/Young Rider Individual Championship was sure enough closely fought with all 3 medal winners finishing inside 3 together with a one-half minutes of i roughly other – all with a faster overall speed than their Senior counterparts. Uruguay reigned supreme i time once again taking the top 2 places with Maria Pereira together with her bay mare SM Lady Adela crossing the business start only over 2 minutes ahead of compatriot Frederik Maidana aboard the 8-year-old JQ Zarial, despite them putting inwards the fastest in conclusion loop of the solar daytime at 29.53kph.
Pereira was also utilisation of the Uruguayan contingent competing inwards Tarbes this summer. As an elite rider, Pereira is able to compete inwards Championships on horses with whom she has non completed the qualification criteria equally a combination. Her performance inwards Tarbes saw her goal 14th aboard British-based Equus caballus Lara Lark. Republic of Chile rounded upwardly the podium with Paula Llorens together with the 11-year-old gelding Sandek. This combination pose a formidable forcefulness having similar a shot finished every i of the international races they require maintain started. This was the pair’s 7th lawsuit together, together with the start fourth dimension they require maintain non won.
Unfortunately, exclusively 2 nations were able to successfully goal 3 combinations. Once again, Uruguay came out on top with an incredible overall fourth dimension of only 15:56:55. Republic of Chile won their 2nd squad medal of the Championships when winning argent inwards a really respectable total fourth dimension of 17:33:56.
Reporting: Anna Williams
Results
Senior Team
Gold: Uruguay (Oriana Ricca with Amarillo HLM / Nicolas Rodriguez Villamil with JQ Safi Zafra / Antonio Guillen with Misterio Molles – total fourth dimension 17:13:01)
Silver: Brazil (Rafaela Moreira Barreto with Amyra EL Emir / Andre Vidiz with SM Bomberito / Leo Steinbruch with Halpern Endurance – total fourth dimension – 18:35:56)
Bronze: Chile (David Ramirez with RP Bordolino / Lukas Buckel with IFO Kuma / Andre Alvarez with Ladino – total fourth dimension 19:19:25)
Junior/Young Rider Team
Gold: Uruguay (Maria Pereira with SM Lady Adela / Frederik Maidana with JQ Zarial / Victoria Ferber with Yarara la Flechilla – total fourth dimension 15:56:55)
Silver: Republic of Chile (Paula Llorens with Sandek / Benjamin Boetsch with Khadijah / Jose Antonio Vicente with Marquen – total fourth dimension 17:33:56)
Senior Individual
Gold: Oriana Ricca (URU) with Amarillo HLM – 22.71kph / 05:29:30
Silver: Gabriel Morgui (ARG) with HLP Astica – 22.68kph / 05:29:57
Bronze: Nicolas Rodriguez Villamil (URU) with JG Safi Zafra – 21.96kph / 05:40:41
Junior/Young Rider Individual
Gold: Maria Pereira (URU) with SM Lady Adela – 23.72kph / 05:15:29
Silver: Frederik Maidana (URU) with JQ Zarial – 23.55kph / 05:17:43
Bronze: Paula Llorens (CHI) with Sandek – 23.46kph / 05:18:55
FEI World Endurance Championships for Young Horses
by Anna Williams
French passenger Aurelien Rocchia aboard Secret de Monday Coeur won private gold, ahead of Spain’s Silvia Yebra Altimiras with Espoir de Bozouls, together with Laurent Mosti (FRA) took bronze on Doria de Jansavis at the FEI World Endurance Championships for Young Horses inwards Italy at the weekend.
On Saturday, September 28, 67 horses crossed the start business at 6.30am to rival this Championships where only private honours were at stake. It was a potent field, with representatives from thirteen nations. Home state Italy fielded the largest publish of starters with 22 passenger together with Equus caballus combinations, with French Republic – fresh with medal success next their squad gilded at the FEI Open European Endurance Championships only 2 weeks agone – non far behind with eighteen starters. They were joined past times 27 combinations from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Oman, Slovakia, Sweden together with the UAE.
The rival venue was based inwards Valeggio Sul Mincio, a modest Italian commune inwards the share of Vaneto, almost 120km W of Venice. The course of written report was 120km long, made upwardly of 3 loops, i of which was repeated making 4 loops inwards total.
Right from the start, the front end runners ready a difficult footstep over the initial 40km loop, but equally the solar daytime panned out, it became apparent that those athletes opting for a slightly steadier cruising speed would come upwardly out on top. The leaders covered the initial loop at only over 20kph together with the top v at this start vet gate had representatives from the UAE, France, Italy together with Spain. The 2nd loop was much shorter, criterion only 22.5km, together with the speed remained consistent into vet gate 2. With the top fifteen athletes inside xx minutes of the leader it was really much an opened upwardly race at this stage.
Loop 3 proved to endure the biggest challenge of the day. Here, the distance stepped upwardly to 35km together with it became apparent that those combinations travelling at the higher speeds were starting to experience the tough questions posed past times this deceiving track. In total, sixteen horses were judged unfit to run on at this in conclusion vet gate, allowing those that had saved plenty petrol inwards the tank to actually come upwardly into their own. The leading passenger out on to the in conclusion loop of only 22.5km, a repeat of the before loop 2, had an payoff of only over nineteen minutes ahead of 2nd placed endurance keen Laurent Mosti (FRA) onboard the impressive grayness mare Doria de Jansavis. But with 7 combinations leaving inside 5 minutes of Mosti to encompass the in conclusion stages, the rival was fierce.
In the end, the UAE’s Sheikh Khalifa bin Mohammed al Hamed stopped his Equus caballus during the in conclusion loop allowing those initially trailing past times nearly xx minutes to accept the lead. French passenger Aurelien Rocchia with his gelding Secret de Monday Coeur seat inwards a storming in conclusion loop to accept gilded inwards a thrilling sprint goal amongst Spaniard Silvia Yebra Altimiras riding the French bred chestnut gelding Espoir de Bozouls. Mosti took bronze, crossing the business only 2 seconds behind but his mare was afterwards awarded the prestigious Best Condition accolade.
Fourth house went to roughly other French rider, Emilie Lambert. Her hitting mare Birmany Font Noire was i of the quickest presenting horses all day, averaging only 1 infinitesimal 49 seconds at each vet gate. Fifth house saw roughly other sprint finish, this fourth dimension betwixt Sweden’s Maria Hagman Eriksson, French passenger Lauriane Recoules together with Ali Hassan Al Western Farsi of Oman. The bay gelding Al Tayar ridden past times Hagman Eriksson won the sprint together with inwards doing together with thus secured Sweden’s best goal at a Championship for many years.
In all, over 50% of the participants completed successfully with nearly all federations entered having a successful completion.
Ian Williams, FEI Director for Endurance was exceedingly pleased with the Championships. “This testing lawsuit posed many a inquiry of these immature horses together with it was those that were brought gradually through the field, stepping upwardly inwards the placings equally the solar daytime progressed, that were able to exhibit their truthful degree inwards the end,” he said. “What an exciting time to come Endurance has with immature horses of such calibre”.
Final Results
Gold: Aurelien Rocchia (FRA) with Secret de Monday Coeur (06:10:37, 19.427kph)
Silver: Silvia Yebra Altimiras (ESP) with Espoir de Bozouls (06:10:38, 19.426kph)
Bronze: Laurent Mosti (FRA) with Doria de Jansavis (06:10:40, 19.424kph)
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