Germans take early WEG dressage lead
After 2 riders as well as continuous pelting at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games inwards Normandy, FRG is leading the provisional squad ranking inwards front end of the entitle holders from the Netherlands as well as the Olympic squad champions from Great Britain.
The twenty-four hours started early on for the High German contingent with Fabienne Lütkemeier as well as D’Agostino FRH beingness the firstly passenger out, scoring 73,586. Her Pb held until Kristina Sprehe presented Desperados, delivering a ride with the stallion that all judges saw inwards firstly house with a broad margin Pb of 78,814. “Normally he is nervous at the firstly competition of a show, but non today. I felt a piddling tension inwards the tunnel going inwards but inwards the arena he was fully concentrated as well as relaxed,” Sprehe said after the ride. “If anything the pirouettes could receive got been a piddling better. But that was my fault. I should receive got taken to a greater extent than risks.”
A pleased Monica Theodorescu, national omnibus for the squad as well as private trainer for Sprehe, is looking frontward to Tuesday. “Fabienne rode a nifty exam as well as Kristina was super strong. Not i wobbly moment. She actually presented him with confidence. We tin select a breather at nowadays until tomorrow.”
The reigning European champions are keen to find the globe entitle that eluded them for the firstly fourth dimension inwards Lexington 2010.
Defending champions Netherlands receive got been affected yesteryear 2 major exchanges inwards the team, bringing inwards Diederik van Silfhout as well as Arlando NH N.O.P. every bit their firstly starters. “Considering the horse’s piddling sense he did real well,” van Silfhout said after a careful ride. The nine-year-old Arlando has done “only 8 or 10” grand prix upwardly to at nowadays as well as Silfhout praised the squad for “accepting me so well.” It was upwardly to Hans-Peter Minderhoud as well as 12 year-old Glock’s Johnson’s TN to follow as well as force upwardly the Dutch number with his score of 74,357.
Minderhoud has every argue to endure pleased. He competed inwards i of the heaviest downpours that beset the competition programme as well as spent a lot of his warm-up fourth dimension sheltering from the pelting earlier deciding that he simply had to become out at that spot as well as larn a soaking. He said the basis inwards the arena “was non slippy but a chip sticky” as well as that his horse, Glock’s Johnson “felt it a piddling at the outset of the exam as well as was non so expressive, but so he went frontward every bit common after that as well as went quite well”.
“The firstly role of the exam was non every bit expressive every bit it could receive got been. The start bell came real all of a abrupt as well as Johnson was nonetheless a chip stunned yesteryear the moisture footing. You could good listen the swishing noises when he moved,” Minderhoud described his ride inwards the wetness of Caen.
The Dutch passenger talked almost how proud he is of his 12-year-old stallion who was a existent eye-catcher inwards the ring. “I receive got him since he was iii years onetime so he has been inwards our stable for almost 7 years. He has been breeding a lot so he has 2 jobs to do. He did his firstly Grand Prix inwards January, at the World Cup at Neumunster (GER) he was actually skilful as well as in i trial to a greater extent than at the World Cup Final inwards Lyon (FRA). He is developing actually good as well as he has a lot to a greater extent than improvement to come upwardly inwards the future. He’s non spooky, he’s quite a clever man child as well as he e'er wants to run with you,” Minderhoud said.
The British squad started out with Gareth Hughes as well as inexperienced DV Stenkjers Nadonna, ranked 15th at the terminate of Day 1. The mare was clearly awed by the atmosphere, leaving it to Carl Hester to relieve the firstly day. Hester’s Nip as well as Tuck delivered a personal best as well as a confirmation about trusting one’s instincts.
Hester said: “He toll €1000 every bit yearling as well as hither I am at the World Championship with him, 24 years after my firstly WEG inwards Stockholm. This Equus caballus clearly shows that dressage isn’t simply elitist.”
The passenger is sum of praise for the Dutch gelding whom he describes every bit “the biggest Equus caballus inwards the stable but so naïve.” He did his firstly grand prix exam alone inwards May this year, at Saumur.
“I’m delighted – we’re inwards the hunt with Holland as well as FRG as well as this was a personal best for my horse. He’s 10 years of historic current as well as he’s alone simply stepping upwardly there. I’m real excited almost the competition tomorrow as well as for the remainder of the week,” he said.
“My other horses, maybe, could receive got gotten higher marks but I know Nip as well as Tuck for so long, I knew I could absolutely trust him as well as he proved me right.”
Hester enjoyed the enthusiasm of the spectators who greeted his arrival with a nifty roar. “You don’t actually know what to await with this crowd, they’re real enthusiastic as well as it was such a prissy reception going in. It’s 24 years afterwards for me, because I rode inwards Stockholm (at the firstly World Equestrian Games inwards 1990), so I’m actually happy to endure hither in i trial to a greater extent than on some other Equus caballus as well as to larn that result.”
With the multiple record-breaking partnership of Charlotte Dujardin as well as Valegro, as well as Michael Eilberg with the handsome mare Half Luna Delphi nonetheless to come upwardly it seems the British could rally strongly on twenty-four hours two.
In his WEG debut, Canada’s David Marcus got his province off to a skilful start, riding Chrevi’s Capital to twelfth house with a score of 70.357%.
The brace demonstrated fluid half-passes, soft as well as elevated passage, as well as immediately as well as right two-tempi changes.
“I intend he’s a world-class horse,” said Marcus of the 14-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding (Chrevi’s Cavallo x Weinberg). “I allow him produce his thing, as well as I intend he did it actually well.
“I intend Capital actually tried. He’s coming into a whole novel grade of confidence as well as rideability. I intend it was pretty good.”
Competing during a constant rain, Marcus, 33, as well as Chrevi’s Capital had the back upwardly of the crowd inwards the Stade d’Ornano.
Fellow Canadian squad fellow member Karen Pavicic rode Don Daiquiri to a score of 69.486%, putting Canada inwards tenth house alongside 24 nations.
It volition endure Germany’s Isabell Werth who gets the 2nd one-half of the squad competition off to a start inwards the morning, as well as if she tin persuade her mare, Bella Rose, to shimmer as well as sparkle similar she did at Aachen (GER) concluding calendar month so her country’s seat volition endure farther reinforced. Germany likewise has the super-talented partnership of Helen Langehanenberg as well as Damon Hill NRW to rely on every bit anchors.
The top xxx athletes inwards the private standings deed frontward to the Grand Prix Special on Wednesday, August 27. From there, the top xv competition the Grand Prix Freestyle on Friday, August 30, to decide the private medals.
Team Grand Prix Part 1 (after 2 riders from each squad receive got completed):
1. FRG 152.4: Desperados FRH (Kristina Sprehe) 78.814; D’Agostino (Fabienne Lutkemeier) 73.586.
2. Netherlands 147.771: Glock’s Johnson TN (Hans Peter Minderhoud) 74.357; Arlando NH N.O.P. (Diederick van Silfhout) 73.414.
4. Great Britain 143.9: Nip Tuck (Carl Hester) 74.196; DV Stenkjers Nadonna (Gareth Hughes) 69.714.
Individual Standings after Day 1:
1, Desperados FRH (Kristina Sprehe) GER 78.814;
2, Glock’s Johnson TN (Hans Peter Minderhoud) NED 74.357;
3, Nip Tuck (Carl Hester) GBR 74.196;
4, D’Agostino (Fabienne Lutkemeier) GER 73.586;
5, Arlando NH N.O.P (Diederik van Silfhout) NED 73.414;
6, Norte Lavera (Jose Antonio Garcia Mena) ESP 72.414;
7, Wizard (Adrienne Lyle) USA 72.000;
8, Santana (Minna Telde) SWE 71.171;
9, Mariett (Lars Petersen) DEN 70.800;
10, Noble Dream Concept Sol (Marc Boblet) FRA 70.686.
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