Italian rider wins Olympia Puissance with 2.18m jump
Italian passenger Luca Moneta too his nine-year-old mare Quovo de Vains cleared 7ft 2in (2.18m) to win the Alltech Christmas Puissance at Olympia, The London International Horse Show, this week.
It was Moneta’s stimulate puissance win, too he is currently Leading Rider of Show.
The contest went to 5 rounds alongside entirely Guy Williams, on Richi Rich lll, too Moneta on Quovo de Vains making it through to the concluding round.
Williams’s grayness mare only brushed a brick alongside his knee, leaving Moneta to accept the gamble. He admitted subsequently that he had been apprehensive, but was encouraged past times the audience. “The crowd hither are existent horsemen; they brand yous experience equally if they are riding alongside you,” he said.
“I’m actually emotional. The mare wasn’t only jumping alongside her body, but alongside her heart. What made me actually happy is that she led me to the fence. She actually wanted to create it.”
The evergreen John Whitaker, 58, who has won this epic flat to a greater extent than times than whatever other rider, was cheered to the rafters for finishing 3rd on Zantos. Laura Renwick was 4th on the appropriately named Roller Coaster.
The Duchess of Cornwall, in i lawsuit to a greater extent than enjoying her annual watch to Olympia, presented the prestigious Raymond Brooks-Ward trophy, which is given inwards retentiveness of the belatedly commentator too demo managing director past times his iii sons, Simon, James too Nick, to the most promising immature passenger of the year.
This year’s recipient was showjumper Louise Saywell, 23, a fellow member of the Lottery-funded World Class Development squad, who was a last-minute call-up to the British squad at the FEI Nations Cup concluding inwards Barcelona inwards September.
Olympia first-timer Jur Vrieling from the Netherlands made the most of his Equus caballus VDL Babalu’s fast measurement to win the Kingsland Christmas Stakes, a speed class.
“I’d non seen [eventual runner-up] Pius Schwizer’s round, but I did meet Harrie Smolders go,” Vrieling said. “My Equus caballus is non equally practiced equally making tight turns equally Harrie’s, too then I made the most of jumping off his practiced gallop.”
Vrieling, a squad silvery medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games alongside VDL Bubalu, joked almost how this metropolis must live lucky for him.
“I promise I larn to come upwards dorsum hither again, peculiarly to this show,” he said. “When yous arrive, everything looks beautiful. But when the crowd turns upwards it is something amazing. They stand upwards correct behind yous too brand yous desire to win.”
The afternoon jumping class, the Snowman Stakes, sponsored past times Shelley Ashman International, was won past times Sweden’s Peder Fredericson on H & one one thousand Siborn, who crunch Luca Moneta on Connery past times nearly 2 seconds.
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