WEG dressage Grand Prix Special – what the riders said
Comments from some of the riders later the Grand Prix Special dressage test at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
Charlotte Dujardin GBR (1st): “It was a nifty ride as well as I was real happy with my test. I had no squad members to worry about, I idea I’d but teach for everything, my Equus caballus was but fantastic – he is a Ferrari! The crowd were real hard to bargain alongside – all I could hear were gasps, whether I did a expert or a bad thing. I could hear the crowd the whole time.
“Probably that was the hardest matter because when yous were doing expert as well as bad yous could hear “ooooh” or yous could hear people talking. I wanted to plough circular as well as nation ‘shut up!’
“When you’re trying to ride you’re trying to intend where to teach as well as to intend of what you’re doing, as well as all yous tin hear is the crowd talking as well as gasping, it’s very, real tough. Obviously yous don’t experience that real often. I know I had it inward Herning (FEI European Dressage Championships 2013 inward Denmark) final yr as well as a fighting inward Aachen this year, but otherwise yous tin unremarkably alone hear the music or it’s silent, thus I works life it actually hard out in that location today.”
Helen Langehanenberg GER (2nd): “The exam felt real good. He e'er goes frontwards as well as listens real well. He is keen on working alongside me as well as knows what to do. I did non know Charlotte’s score earlier I went into the stadium – I was but concentrating on my training as well as test. I am actually looking frontwards to Fri right away – he is a real happy horse!
“I won’t surrender (trying to vanquish Dujardin as well as Valegro). I believe inward Dami as well as I’m real pleased alongside him today.”
Kristina Sprehe GER (3rd): “I am actually happy. Coming inward to these Games I was alone focused on Team Gold. I had no thoughts for the Individual at all. This is but fantastic, completely fantastic! My Equus caballus was perfect inward the test, fifty-fifty if during the passages he lost some beat as well as he has to survive to a greater extent than energetic. I had a actually fantastic feeling during the whole test.”
Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven SWE (5th): “I had a real expert feeling today, Don Auriello did his best – he was real lite as well as slowly to ride”.
Laura Graves (8th) USA: talking almost her successful arrival at the top halt of the sport as well as her lawsuit today – “we didn’t facial expression to survive hither thus I couldn’t survive happier! Today the walk was much amend – he tin produce a ix or a 10 – he went inward the spooky corner, nailed all of his changes as well as he was overnice to ride which is why I produce this”.
And talking almost her concentration during the test: “there’a a indicate at the halt of canter extension when I but allow teach as well as I said to myself, that’s pretty good! Three-quarters of the agency through the exam it’s sort of a relief to come upward to the pirouette as well as and thus to the end.
“I produce a lot of homework. I pass a lot of fourth dimension studying the top riders as well as I film inward my mind’s midpoint what I’m trying to produce when I’m inward the saddle. I nigh out what’s going on around us as well as but concentrate on trying to reverberate what I’ve seen them do,” said the rider who finished 2 places ahead of her considerably to a greater extent than experienced team-mate, Steffen Peters alongside Legolas, when slotting into 8th identify at the halt of the day.
Charlotte Dujardin. © Jane Thompson
Steffen Peters USA (10th): “The Special is a hard exam for this horse. The Freestyle is something Legolas does well, nosotros previously scored fourscore per cent inward that thus I’m hoping for a expert lawsuit on Friday”.
Carl Hester GBR (12th) after scoring a personal best of 75.532%: “I wasn’t expecting that; for him to produce this on the Grand Prix Special 24-hour interval – this is alone the 3rd Special I’ve done on him, as well as for a personal best, I couldn’t actually inquire whatsoever to a greater extent than of him, he’s trying his hardest as well as I’ve right away got to intend almost Friday!”
Michael Eilberg GBR (13th): “I’m absolutely chuffed to bits, it’s precisely what I was hoping for. Today she gave her all, I asked her to dig a fighting deeper as well as she gave me everything she had. After yesterday’s mistakes, to teach inward as well as ride a fault complimentary exam was what I was hoping for, as well as what I did. I was actually focused, I intend it’s the best exam I’ve done – for sure the best Special.
“Her owners [Jon as well as Julie Deverill] are real supportive as well as they dear her to bits; they’re real proud to receive got a Equus caballus inward the squad as well as dear coming to these events, thus all beingness good she’ll survive getting amend as well as better.”
Belinda Trussell CAN (22nd): “When yous enter, everyone is but screaming, as well as I idea to myself, ‘When produce yous teach this? This is amazing!’ The crowd is thus wonderful, as well as supportive, as well as excited – as well as it helps yous ascent to the occasion.
“Yesterday he (Anton) was quite hot inward the warm-up, as well as hot around the exterior of the ring. Today he was much to a greater extent than relaxed as well as he felt really, actually good. He warmed upward actually well. I had pretty much a film perfect warm-up where everything but goes tickety-boo.”
Edward Gal NED (25th): “It was all real novel for this horse. He is too a stallion as well as has never been away from domicile for thus many days. He was real excited inward his stable alongside many mares passing past times as well as he lost a lot of his unloosen energy because of that.”
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