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LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Oct. 5–Germany inched to the top of the team jumping world championships Tuesday, but six nations were within a single rail that will make for a nail-biting final round under lights at the World Equestrian Games in the Kentucky Horse Park Wednesday night.

Brazil with 18.49 faults eased into second place behind Germany’s 17.80. Brazil had two clear rounds, one from triple World Cup winner Rodrigo Pessoa and the 10-year-old stallion HH Rebozo, owned by Double H Farm of Ridgefield, Connecticut and Wellington, Florida, and Alvaro Miranda on AD Ashleigh Drossell Dan.

Rodrigo, who sits in second individually, said the team is thrilled with their performance, but there are many more jumps ahead.

“The first two days have worked out good for us,” he said. “But you can see the results. There are seven teams within one rail. Tonight we sit here and we look pretty as one-two-three, but we could be seven-eight-nine or five-six-seven tomorrow. The story tomorrow is totally different.  We’ll try to maintain and stay focused on what we have to do. Our riders are really experienced. The horses are good, so we’ll try to do our best to keep that position or maybe just slip one. That would be OK for us still. We’ll do our very best, because we’ve never been in this place before, so we’ll do the utmost.”

Germany had mixed fortunes with Carsten Otto-Nagel on Corradino going clear but Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum on Checkmate logged an uncharacteristic eight faults to be the discard score for the day.

The United States that had led overnight after clear rounds from Mario Deslauriers and Urico and McLain Ward and Sapphire faltered Tuesday with McLain and his 15-year-old double Olympic gold mare incurring four faults–her first rail down since the Nations Cup in St. Gallen, Switzerland in early summer–as did their 2008 Olympic team mates Laura Kraut and Cedric. Lauren Hough and Quick Study had a single time fault in addition to a rail down for a team total of 18.69 faults. Mario and Urico’s two rails down was the discard score for the round.

Eric Lamaze, competing with a broken foot on his Olympic individual gold medal mount Hickstead and John Pearce on Chianto had clear rounds for Canada, but each incurred a single penalty point while team rookie Jonathon Millar on Contino 14 had just five faults and the Olympic team silver medalists were in fourth place.

“My horse was great, he seems to be well-concentrated this week,” said Jonathon, who is the son of nine-time Olympian Ian Millar. “Our team is pulling through and we are keeping our fingers crossed. We are just taking it round by round, and we’ve just got to keep putting one foot in front of another, one step at a time.”

“You get the feeling that you are going quickly with him, but I could not have gone any faster down that last line with him,” said Lamaze of the 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood breeding stallion owned by Ashland Stables and Lamaze’s Torrey Pines Stable. “If that’s where I got the time fault, so be it. The last line was not a line that suits Hickstead – it is a not a line that suits a lot of horses. It was a hateful line to ride.”

Lamaze, who is competing with a broken left foot, has an individual score of 3.39, putting him in sixth place individually among the 121 horses competing. He is immediately followed by teammate Pearce, who is in seventh with a score of 3.70.

Other standings going into Wednesday’s final that is broken into two sections but with the top 10 teams and individual riders scheduled to start their competition at 7 p.m. US ET (0100 CET Thursday):

5. France 20.32, 6. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 21.48, 7. Australia 21.87, 8. Belgium 22.70, 9. Sweden 23.18, 10 Great Britain 23.80, 11. Spain 29.28, 12. ireland 30.54, 13. Switzerland 30.85, 14. Japan 32.26, 15. Netherlands 35.33, 16. Ukraine 37.90, 17. Mexico 43.13, 18. Italy 44.59, 19. South Africa 51.24, 20. Venezuela 56.24.

Individual results on Tuesday:

1	660		J. Larocca	Con Air	79.60	0.00
1	749		K. Offel	La Bomba	83.80	0.00
1	673		D. Fukushima	Weldon d´05	82.36	0.00
1	610		A. Al Sharbatly	Seldana di Campalto	81.73	0.00
1	676		T. Sugitani	Avenzio 3	79.10	0.00
1	625		K. Staut	Silvana de Hus	80.01	0.00
1	637		R. Bengtsson	Ninja La Silla	81.51	0.00
1	705		J. Lansink	Cavalor Valentina van´t Heike	79.00	0.00
1	744		P. Le Jeune	Vigo d´Arsouilles	83.74	0.00
1	647		B. Twomey	Tinka´s Serenade	83.08	0.00
1	636		M. Baryard-Johnsson	H&M Actrice W	83.73	0.00
1	606		C. Chugg	Vivant	82.88	0.00
1	667		R. Pessoa	HH Rebozo	81.95	0.00
1	604		E. Alexander	Cevo Itot du Château	82.90	0.00
1	666		A. Miranda	AD Ashleigh Drossel Dan	81.65	0.00
1	677		G. Gulliksen	L´Espoir	83.36	0.00
1	629		C. Nagel	Corradina	80.86	0.00
18	715		E. Lamaze	Hickstead	86.41	1.00
18	609		K. Al Eid	Presley Boy	86.00	1.00
18	642		R. Smith	Talan	85.44	1.00
18	688		J. Pearce	Chianto	84.40	1.00
22	704		M. Al Rumaihi	Castiglione L	95.48	3.00
23	634		N. Schurtenberger	Cantus	83.49	4.00
23	732		M. Ward	Sapphire	79.08	4.00
23	638		P. Fredricson	H&M Arctic Aurora Borealis	83.73	4.00
23	690		C. Santis	Fanatico de Huincul	81.61	4.00
23	725		J. Paterson-Robinson	Niack de l´Abbaye	83.19	4.00
23	649		E. Bicocchi	Kapitol d´Argonne	80.44	4.00
23	635		P. Schwizer	Carlina	79.84	4.00
23	746		A. Hamcho	Wonderboy III	82.12	4.00
23	626		M. Ehning	Plot Blue	81.67	4.00
23	640		S. Brash	Intertoy Z	83.27	4.00
23	641		D. McPherson	Chamberlain Z	83.40	4.00
23	707		J. Melchior	Cha Cha Z	82.04	4.00
23	714		P. Cordon Muro	Herald	83.86	4.00
23	627		J. Meyer	Cellagon Lambrasco	82.40	4.00
23	621		P. Delaveau	Katchina Mail	81.56	4.00
23	730		J. Chen	Quin Chin	83.91	4.00
23	743		B. Nagel	Va et Viens van de Zelm	83.12	4.00
23	706		L. Kraut	Cedric	81.16	4.00
23	646		C. O´Connor	K Club Lady	83.99	4.00
42	683		C. Basel	S.I.E.C. Livello	85.20	5.00
42	687		J. Millar	Contino 14	87.27	5.00
42	620		J. Garmendia Echeverria	Lord du Mont Milon	85.41	5.00
42	684		G. Flynn	SIEC Ledgepoint	86.41	5.00
42	680		O. Lazarus	Silver Spring	84.86	5.00
42	747		F. Fernandez	Zorro	87.76	5.00
42	668		P. Veniss	Amaryllis	86.96	5.00
42	624		P. Leprevost	Mylord Carthago*HN	85.38	5.00
42	729		L. Hough	Quick Study	84.27	5.00
42	741		K. El Zoghby	Uleika	87.00	5.00
42	608		R. Al Duhami	Jalla de Gaverie	87.71	5.00
42	631		D. Etter	Peu a Peu 4	86.33	5.00
54	602		N. Fagerstrom	Wivina	91.62	6.00
55	618		M. Añon	Acantus Gk	94.21	7.00
56	738		H. Kovács	The Real Deal	81.65	8.00
56	623		O. Guillon	Lord de Theize	79.97	8.00
56	655		H. Smolders	Exquis Walnut de Muze	82.72	8.00
56	658		S. McIntosh	Loxley 38	83.62	8.00
56	737		C. Morstadt	Talento	80.69	8.00
56	718		P. Barrios	G&C Lagran	82.51	8.00
56	654		M. Houtzager	HBC Tamino	81.00	8.00
56	698		C. Rivetti	Billy Birr	82.21	8.00
56	711		N. Pizarro	Crossing Jordan	83.41	8.00
56	742		M. Deslauriers	Urico	80.79	8.00
56	686		Y. Candele	Pitareusa	83.98	8.00
56	653		G. Grassi	Snai American Blu Van Eeklelchem	81.56	8.00
56	628		M. Michaels-Beerbaum	Checkmate	82.71	8.00
56	657		J. Vrieling	Vdl Bubalu	79.85	8.00
70	614		S. Al Nehayan	Muscaris D Ariel	85.36	9.00
70	643		M. Whitaker	GIG Amai	86.09	9.00
70	696		A. Al Rumaihi	Ambiente 55	86.96	9.00
70	672		G. Salick	Centuria 2	85.25	9.00
70	656		E. van der Vleuten	VDL Groep Utascha SFN	84.93	9.00
70	722		A. Rodriguez	Larkanaro	86.57	9.00
70	603		M. Forsten	Evli Nandele	85.48	9.00
77	681		J. Lotter	Nova Zonnestraal Rendement	88.28	10.00
77	699		A. Lemanski	Bischof L	88.01	10.00
79	664		B. Alves	Vancouver D´Auvrey	79.78	12.00
79	663		K. McVean	Delphi	82.97	12.00
79	645		D. Lynch	Lantinus	78.61	12.00
79	739		A. Tomaszewski	Trojka	83.24	12.00
79	617		S. Alvarez Moya	Action-Breaker	83.32	12.00
79	671		S. Szász	Moosbachhofs Goldwing	82.41	12.00
79	632		S. Guerdat	Tresor	83.62	12.00
79	650		F. Brotto	R-Gitana	82.42	12.00
79	661		P. Nisbett	Cantaro	80.28	12.00
79	719		C. Fries	Lanco	80.20	12.00
89	639		H. Lundbäck	Bukowskis Erbblume	86.26	13.00
89	712		A. Lusina	Ekwador	87.23	13.00
89	601		H. Frischeis	Tamerino	86.21	13.00
89	708		A. Maurer	Charro	84.02	13.00
89	674		T. Masui	Keep Your Touch	86.84	13.00
89	644		D. Lennon	Hallmark Elite	85.26	13.00
95	679		C. Frew	Leopold Pierreville	88.10	14.00
96	607		M. Williams	Urleven Van De Helle	83.30	16.00
96	700		D. Demeersman	Bufero vh Panishof	81.70	16.00
98	724		I. Bisharat	Lutin de Saint Martin	87.76	17.00
98	701		R. Sillo	Bulgarie van de Lindehoeve	87.30	17.00
98	652		G. D´Onofrio	Landzeu 2	85.30	17.00
101	691		L. García	Ad Simone Método Marcolab	88.83	18.00
102	685		Ö. Karaevli	Cando	92.25	19.00
102	727		C. Ramirez	Potomac B	92.03	19.00
104	745		J. Guerra Piedra	Watch Me vh Grootveldhof	83.74	20.00
104	675		E. Sato	BV Projects Cartoon Z	98.16	20.00
106	612		A. Al Jenaibi	Picobello Wodiena	87.79	21.00
106	613		H. Al Maktoum	Kalaska de Semilly	102.86	21.00
108	702		P. Sawicki	Caballus Z	88.05	22.00
108	662		M. Beatson	Apollo van Evendael	88.36	22.00
110	682		C. Luyckx	Olibero	84.27	29.00
111	615		S. Al Qassimi	Co-Jack	105.33	30.00
112	728		D. Bluman	Puertas Paraiso	97.30	32.00
113	670		M. Hugyecz	Cash	0.00	0.00
113	611		K. Bahamdan	Cezanne 30	0.00	0.00
113	748		F. Al Ajami	Zorro Z	0.00	0.00
116	659		R. Kierkegaard	Pilgrim II	0.00	0.00
116	600		F. Martinez Zuviría	V de Pomme	0.00	0.00
116	726		G. Thomas	Peterbilt	0.00	0.00
119	731		A. Al Thani	Santos	0.00	0.00