Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 17–Isabell Werth rode Don Johnson to victory in the International Festhallen World |Cup Grand Prix Saturday, posting a personal best  in only the  sixth competition since the pair began Grand Prix nine months ago.

Isabell, Germany’s most decorated dressage rider, and the 10-year-old Hanoverian gelding (Don Frederico x Werona x Warkant) scored 75.085 per cent with compatriots Monica Theodorescu and Whisper second on 73.362 per cent and Dorothee Schneider and Diva Royal third on 72.851 per cent.

The previous best for Isabell and Don Johnson at Grand Prix was 74.723 per cent in Stuttgart a month ago.

Don Johnson could become the top mount for Isabell with the retirement of her Olympic gold medal partner Satchmo also at Stuttgart. The piaffe and passage of Don Johnson appears more superior to her other 10-year-old, El Santo NRW, which she rode on the silver medal German team at the European Championships in Rotterdam.

The Freestyle is scheduled for Sunday for which points will count toward qualifying for the World Cup Final in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, in mid-April.

Frankfurt is the fifth of nine World Cup qualifiers in the Western European League.

If Isabell wins the Freestyle, she would earn 20 points and vault her to tie with current leader Tinne Vilhelmsson-Silfven of Sweden with 52 points who is currently atop the standings.

However, Sweden’s Patrik Kittel is competing here in Frankfurt and is ranked second with 41 points. With a high finsh Sunday, he could take over the lead in the standings.

The final of the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, the hotly contested German championship for developing horses, was won by Carola Koppelmann on Desperado OLD with 75.450 per cent.

Isabell and Flatley 2 were second on 73.350 per cent and Oliver Oelrich and Rock Forever NRW third on 73.000 per cent.

Results of Grand Prix
1.	423	Don Johnson	Werth, Isabell	GER		2700 EUR	357.5	358.0	344.0	352.5	352.5	1764.5 Punkte
	B 9-j.W v.Don Frederico/M.v.Warkant/HANN/102MB43/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine						76.064 %	76.170 %	73.191 %	75.000 %	75.000 %	75.085 %
							1.	1.	2.	1.	1.
2.	201	Whisper	Theodorescu, Monica	GER		2000 EUR	347.0	341.5	347.0	344.5	344.0	1724.0 Punkte
	F 13-j.W v.Welt Hit I O/M.v.Weltstar/WÜRTT/GER26878/B: Linsenhoff,Ann Kathrin						73.830 %	72.660 %	73.830 %	73.298 %	73.192 %	73.362 %
							2.	4.	1.	4.	2.
3.	68	Diva Royal	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		1350 EUR	335.0	344.5	343.5	346.5	342.5	1712.0 Punkte
	SCHWB 9-j.S v.Don Frederico/M.v.Warkant/HANN/GER45474/B: Roth,Katharina						71.277 %	73.298 %	73.085 %	73.723 %	72.872 %	72.851 %
							6.	3.	3.	2.	3.
4.	425	Eremo Del Castegno	Truppa, Valentina	ITA		900 EUR	341.5	348.5	338.0	338.0	341.5	1707.5 Punkte
	B 10-j.W v.Rohdiamant/M.v.Weltmeyer/SI/ITA42367/B: Gavan S.R.L						72.660 %	74.149 %	71.915 %	71.915 %	72.660 %	72.660 %
							4.	2.	5.	6.	4.
5.	179	Toy Story	Kittel, Patrik	SWE		850 EUR	345.5	339.0	337.0	346.0	334.0	1701.5 Punkte
	B 11-j.W v.Come Back II/M.v.Concorde/S.WBL/NED42211/B: Oatley,Carol u. Andrew						73.510 %	72.127 %	71.702 %	73.617 %	71.064 %	72.404 %
							3.	5.	6.	3.	5.
6.	96	IPS Tango	Minderhoud, Hans Peter	NED		800 EUR	336.5	338.5	338.5	344.5	330.0	1688.0 Punkte
	F 11-j.H v.Jazz/M.v.Contango/KWPN/NED07711/B: Uytert,J.M.						71.596 %	72.021 %	72.021 %	73.298 %	70.213 %	71.830 %
							5.	6.	4.	4.	8.
7.	6	Apollo van het Vijverhof	Devroe, Jeroen	BEL		750 EUR	331.5	332.5	337.0	336.0	332.5	1669.5 Punkte
	B 11-j.W v.Welt Hit II/M.v.Ritmeister/BWP/BEL40805/B: Devroe,Jeroen						70.532 %	70.745 %	71.703 %	71.490 %	70.745 %	71.043 %
							8.	8.	6.	7.	7.
8.	8	Smeyers Molberg	Krinke-Susmelj, Marcela	SUI		650 EUR	332.0	324.5	334.5	331.5	334.0	1656.5 Punkte
	B 10-j.S v.Michellino/M.v.Rambo/DK/DEN40115/B: Munkedal,Klaus						70.638 %	69.042 %	71.170 %	70.532 %	71.063 %	70.489 %
							7.	11.	8.	8.	5.
Weitere, nicht platzierte Teilnehmer
9.	72	Eichendorff	Max-Theurer, Victoria	AUT			329.5	331.0	325.5	328.0	325.0	1639.0 Punkte
	B 13-j.H v.Ehrentusch/M.v.Ferragamo/WESTF/AUT04389/B: Max-Theurer,Victoria						70.107 %	70.426 %	69.256 %	69.788 %	69.149 %	69.745 %
							10.	9.	10.	9.	9.
10.	77	Fabriano	Voglsang, Renate	AUT			330.5	326.5	328.0	326.0	324.5	1635.5 Punkte
	B 12-j.H v.Florestan I/M.v.Angelo xx/WESTF/GER42005/B: Voglsang,Renate						70.319 %	69.468 %	69.787 %	69.362 %	69.043 %	69.596 %
							9.	10.	9.	10.	10.
11.	79	FBW De Vito	Jörgensen, Lone	DEN			320.0	333.5	323.5	324.5	324.5	1626.0 Punkte
	B 9-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Disco-Stern/WÜRTT/102MU68/B: Jörgensen,Lone						68.085 %	70.957 %	68.829 %	69.042 %	69.042 %	69.191 %
							12.	7.	11.	11.	10.
12.	189	Uzzo	Meer, Patrick van der	NED			319.0	324.5	315.5	322.0	321.5	1602.5 Punkte
	B 10-j.W v.Lancet/M.v.Indoctro/KWPN/NED40460/B: Trainingsstal de Hoeve						67.872 %	69.042 %	67.127 %	68.510 %	68.404 %	68.191 %
							13.	11.	13.	12.	13.
13.	266	Seduc	Troensegaard, Anne	DEN			321.0	315.0	318.0	321.0	324.5	1599.5 Punkte
	B 15-j.W v.Induc/M.v.Go On Then/DK/DEN02844/B: Jörgen Hvenegaard Lassen & Lou						68.298 %	67.021 %	67.660 %	68.298 %	69.043 %	68.064 %
							11.	13.	12.	13.	10.
14.	105	Le Beau	Jorissen, Philippe	BEL			307.0	291.5	303.0	306.5	298.5	1506.5 Punkte
	DF 13-j.H v.Le Coeur/M.v.Classiker/OLD/BEL41745/B: Jorissen,Philippe u.Nicole						65.319 %	62.021 %	64.468 %	65.212 %	63.510 %	64.106 %
							14.	14.	14.	14.	14.
15.	158	Rokoko N	Eversfield-Koch, Elizabeth	SUI			293.5	283.5	290.5	301.0	290.5	1459.0 Punkte
	DB 11-j.W v.Rubinstern Noir/M.v.Montano/BRDBG/GER43342/B: Eversfield-Koch,Elizabe						62.447 %	60.319 %	61.808 %	64.042 %	61.808 %	62.085 %
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