French horse takes lead in WEG eventing for Germany
Germany’s Sandra Auffarth together with her long-time partner Opgun Louvo produced the dressage exam everyone was anticipating to convey the commencement stage of the Eventing competition at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 inward Normandy to a close.
Auffarth scored a 10 for her stop from Ground Jury President Gillian Rolton (AUS) together with 3 nines for her riding. She forthwith has a 2.5-penalty payoff over the first-day leader William Fox-Pitt (GBR) on Chilli Morning.
The two-day dressage stage saw a tape of 91 horses representing 27 nations over 2 days at the Le Pin National Stud venue inward the Ornes region.
Auffarth, who already has Olympic together with European squad gilded medals to her nurture addition private silvery together with bronze, has extended her team’s atomic number 82 over New Zealand together with fully justified her status equally the passenger many people take keep tipped for the private entitle inward Normandy.
The exam included many challenging elements, from flight atomic number 82 changes to a half-pirouette to a serpentine at the canter.
“It wasn’t the easiest atmosphere but nosotros managed OK,” Auffarth said. “At the start my Equus caballus was a petty chip nervous but together with therefore he got amend together with amend together with actually enjoyed it.”
Opgun Louvo had the locals on his side, together with received a standing ovation after the dressage. The Selle Français gelding was bought past times a Belgian passenger equally a three-year-old from breeder Yves Berlioz inward town of Molay-Littry, inward the Calvados region, alone a few miles by Caen. He has been with Auffarth since he was five, together with a twelvemonth after she bought him inward partnership with the German linguistic communication Federation.
He is past times Shogoun II together with from a mare past times J’T’adore, who were both ridden past times Eric Navet, a one-time World Champion together with ambassador to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 inward Normandy. The mare’s side of Opgun Louvo’s household unit of measurement too features many winning racehorses together with jumpers.
Opgun Louvo missed much of 2013 through injury, after he pulled a shoe on the cross-country at Aachen together with strained a leg.
New Zealander Jock Paget had Clifton Promise looking beautifully low-cal together with supple together with they scored the alone other sub-40 grade of the 24-hour interval – 38.0 – to slot into private 3rd place. In a commencement for the New Zealand team, all riders take keep scored nether 50, with 3 inward the travel past times 10 of the 90-strong field: Jock Paget together with Clifton Promise inward 3rd with 38.0, Tim Price together with Wesko are 6th on 42, together with Lucy Jackson together with Willy Do are equal 9th on 43.8. Andrew Nicholson together with Nereo, dual bronze medalists inward Kentucky inward 2010, are 15th on 45.5, Jonelle Price on Classic Moet is 26th on 48.5 together with Mark Todd together with Leonidas II are 29th with 49.2.
Germany has to a greater extent than than twenty penalties inward manus over the third-placed USA squad together with the fourth-placed French. Defending champions Great U.K. are forthwith inward 5th identify after counting a score of 50.0 from 3rd passenger Kristina Cook on her home-bred De Novo News.
The Italian squad has suffered huge disappointment with the withdrawal only earlier their dressage exam of Vittoria Panizzon together with Borough Pennyz. The pop greyness mare was industrial plant life to take keep a slight injury and, to the approving of the crowd, Panizzon said she did non desire to run a endangerment her horse.
Canada finished inward 7th place, with all 4 squad riders achieving personal best dressage scores at FEI 4* level.
Peter Barry together with Jessica Phoenix rode on the commencement 24-hour interval together with position the squad inward eighth, with Hawley Bennett-Awad taking 16th place individually on thoroughbred mare Gin & Juice, together with Selena O’Hanlon riding Westphalian gelding Foxwood High to 35th, helping border Canada up a place.
The Canadian Eventing Team’s Technical Advisor, Clayton Fredericks, is pleased with the team’s performances inward dressage. “Dressage tin e'er travel better, but I intend we’re all really pleased. We’re nonetheless a few countries away from what nosotros desire to laissez passer here, therefore it’s nonetheless work, but I’m really happy with what they’ve done therefore far. The mental attitude together with morale of the squad is really high.”
The British squad is inward 5th place, with the best score of the 2 days going to William Fox-Pitt together with Chilli Morning on the commencement day. Team fellow member Zara Phillips, riding High Kingdom, finished with 54.5 penalties inward 53rd place. “I was actually happy with him,” Phillips said. “He did to a greater extent than or less actually practiced operate together with everything I asked of him. He broke inward the medium trot together with my marks didn’t come upward dorsum upward after that. He does dainty operate but he’s non a flash horse.” Phillips believes that Saturday’s cross-country course of didactics volition travel hugely influential together with should conform her gelding.
Ireland faces a challenging cross-country, when they volition promise to describe themselves upward from overnight twelfth place. Facing into the entitle cross-country phase, Republic of Ireland is forthwith 43.6 punishment points adrift of leaders Germany, but is nonetheless ahead of Brazil, Italy, Sweden together with Poland inward the sixteen land contest.
The best dressage functioning alongside the Irish Gaelic came from Meath-based Sarah Ennis with Horseware Stellor Rebound (ISH) who finished on 48.5 penalties. Mullingar’s Joseph Murphy was adjacent best of the four-strong team, with 52.2 on Electric Cruise.
Although the picturesque site of Haras du Pin has enjoyed balmy, sunny drying conditions, the cross province course of didactics is nonetheless expected to travel influential. In stance of the moisture weather condition this week, the Ground Jury has removed fences twenty together with 23 which removes a galloping loop of the rail together with reduces the optimum fourth dimension past times i minute, forthwith 10:30, on the 5982m track.
It is the commencement fourth dimension Auffarth has gone in conclusion for the German linguistic communication squad together with she admitted her relief at the arrival of sunshine. “The course of didactics is hard plenty but actually good built together with Equus caballus friendly. I’m looking forwards to it.”
» More passenger comments on the cross-country
The cross province stage has been brought forwards past times thirty minutes to 10.00 CEST.
The morning time after cross country, August 31, the eventing horses volition become through a Equus caballus inspection at the Le Pin National Stud venue. The horses volition together with therefore travel loaded together with transported nether police clit escort to the d’Ornano Stadium inward Caen, where the in conclusion present jumping stage volition take keep place, equally good equally the Team together with Individual medal ceremonies.
Reporting: Kate Green, Julie Cull
Individual Results after Dressage
1. Sandra Auffarth/Opgun Louvo (GER)* 35.0
2. William Fox-Pitt/Chilli Morning (GBR)* 37.5
3. Jock Paget/Clifton Paget (NZL)* 38.0
4. Michael Jung/fischerRocana FST (GER)* 40.7
5. Ingrid Klimke/FRH Escada JS (GER)* 41.2
6. Tim Price/Wesko (NZL)* 42.0
7 = Elaine Pen/Vira (NED) 42.3
7 = Karin Donckers/Fletcha van’t Verahof (BEL)* 42.3
nine = Philip Dutton/Trading Aces (USA)* 43.8
nine = Lucy Jackson/Willy Do (NZL) 43.8
(* denotes squad rider)
Individual result
Team Results after Dressage
1. Deutschland 116.9
2. New Zealand 125.5
3. USA 138.8
4. French Republic 139.9
5. Great U.K. 142.0
6. Netherlands 142.8
7 Canada 147.5
8. Kingdom of Belgium 150.8
9. Commonwealth of Australia 153.1
10. Kingdom of Spain 159.8
11. Switzerland 160.0
12. Republic of Ireland 160.5
13. Brazil 162.5
14. Italy 172.6
15. Sweden 179.8
16. Poland 199.3
Full result
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