Dressage-News

LONDON, Dec. 14–In the showdown that was deferred from the World Equestrian Games, Great Britain’s Laura Bechtolsheimer rode her silver medal star Mistral Hojris to a clear cut victory over Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival at the Olympia International Horse Show World Cup qualifying Grand Prix Tuesday.

In the battle of the chestnut geldings, Laura and Mistral Hojris on whom she collected three silver medals at WEG in Kentucky–one team for Great Britain and two individual–the pair scored 82.936 per cent and first place ranking by all five judges. She was also the first Briton ever to win the Grand Prix at Olympia and also set a new national record.

Adelinde who suffered heartbreak in Kentucky when Parzival nicked his tongue to draw blood and was disqualified from their first world championship, were the unanimous choice for second place on 78.170 per cent.

Edward Gal, Adelinde’s Dutch team mate, was more than 10 percentage points behind the winning combination to place third on Sisther de Jeu with 72.553 per cent. Edward was the star of this hugely popular event just a year ago when he rode to the title on Moorlands Totilas, the black stallion that will now be competed by Matthias Alexander Rath of Germany.

In fourth place was the German-based American Catherine Haddad aboard Winyamaro for a score of 69.191 per cent. The pair was reserve for the U.S. team at WEG. Catherine is currently standing second in the West European League World Cup standings and almost certainly will go to the top after the freestyle. But that position is likely to be short lived as the next WEL World Cup qualifier is in Frankfurt later this week and leader Isabell Werth of Germany is competing there.

The Olympia freestyle scheduled for Wednesday night will be streamed live on FEI-TV (http://www.feitv.org/page/Live/0,,12664,00.html) beginning at 8 p.m. local (2100 CET/3 pm US ET) and will decide points toward qualifying for the World Cup Final in Leipzig, Germany at the end of April.

Mistral Hojris’s piaffe and passage helped give the British combination 19 “10s,” including 10s for the final piaffe on the centerline from all five judges for the immensely popular and talented 26-year-old rider and the 15-year-old Danish warmblood.

“Alf was really on the ball tonight,” Laura said. “He was excited, strong and even more spectacular than usual. I have nothing to complain about with his performance, he was physically and mentally on top form.”

Looking ahead to the Freestyle, Laura added: “I’m a little nervous about the Freestyle as Alf hasn’t been out in a while – it will certainly be an exciting ride!”

Adelinde said: “Parzival got a little scared in his extended trot and from then on stayed a little reserved. I had to get him going again after that but he did his job – he just needed something a bit extra. I knew the little mistakes we made weren’t enough to win.”

The London leg of the World Cup series is the fourth out of 10 competitions, with Frankfurt marking the halfway point of the 2010/2011 series.

Fifteen combinations from six countries – Belgium, Finland, France, USA, Great Britain and The Netherlands – started in the Grand Prix.

Complete Grand Prix results:

Platzierte Teilnehmer							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	6	Mistral Hojris	Bechtolsheimer, Laura	GBR		2670 EUR	390	400	387	393	379	1949 Punkte
	chest 15y.G /Michellino/Ibsen/DWB/DEN02686/ Bechtolsheimer,Dr Wilfried						82.979 %	85.106 %	82.340 %	83.617 %	80.638 %	82.936 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	13	Jerich Parzival	Cornelissen, Adelinde	NED		2000 EUR	369	365	367	371	365	1837 Punkte
	chest 13y.G /Jazz/Ulft/KWPN/NED08261/ Cornelissen,W.P.J. & M.A.						78.510 %	77.659 %	78.085 %	78.936 %	77.659 %	78.170 %
							2.	2.	2.	2.	2.
3.	14	Sisther de Jeu	Gal, Edward	NED		1330 EUR	349	337	331	344	344	1705 Punkte
	bay 11y.M /Gribaldi/Amor/KWPN/NED08027/ Jeu,Emma de						74.255 %	71.702 %	70.425 %	73.191 %	73.191 %	72.553 %
							3.	3.	3.	3.	3.
4.	16	Winyamaro	Haddad, Catherine	USA		930 EUR	320	332	322	329	323	1626 Punkte
	chest 10y.G /Walt Disney I/Trapper/HANN/GER42878/ Haddad,Catherine						68.085 %	70.638 %	68.510 %	70.000 %	68.723 %	69.191 %
							6.	4.	4.	4.	5.
5.	12	Macbrian	Stovold, Amy	GBR		870 EUR	326	329	321	327	319	1622 Punkte
	dchst 13y.G /Bjorsells Briar/Brabant/SWB/GBR42599/ Stovold,Maggi						69.361 %	70.000 %	68.298 %	69.574 %	67.872 %	69.021 %
							4.	5.	5.	5.	6.
6.	5	Louis D’Or	Andersen, Henriette	GBR		800 EUR	318	316	309	325	344	1612 Punkte
	bay 13y.G /Heslegard’s Louis/Grandis/DWB/GBR14571/ Mrs P Potter						67.660 %	67.234 %	65.745 %	69.149 %	73.192 %	68.596 %
							7.	7.	10.	6.	3.
7.	8	Hiscox Artemis	Davison, Richard	GBR		730 EUR	316	318	311	313	318	1576 Punkte
	bay 11y.G /Florestan/Delphi/WESTF/CAN02525/ Countess of Derby						67.234 %	67.660 %	66.170 %	66.596 %	67.660 %	67.064 %
							8.	6.	9.	9.	7.
8.	10	Fitzcerraldo	Harvey, Judith	GBR		670 EUR	322	312	315	311	307	1567 Punkte
	bay 12y.G /Feuerbrand/Ajan/BRAND/GBR13111/ Mr R W Heley						68.511 %	66.383 %	67.021 %	66.170 %	65.319 %	66.681 %
							5.	8.	6.	10.	11.
9.	3	Skovlunds Más Guapo	Lindh, Mikaela	FIN		670 EUR	300	311	313	325	311	1560 Punkte
	black 12y.G /Master/Cannon Row xx/DWB/DEN40427/ Elsass,Alexandra						63.830 %	66.170 %	66.596 %	69.149 %	66.170 %	66.383 %
							13.	9.	8.	6.	8.
10.	7	Mr President	Croxford, Stephanie	GBR		670 EUR	314	308	315	317	303	1557 Punkte
	dchst 16y.G /HACK/GBR13293/ Croxford,Stephanie						66.808 %	65.532 %	67.021 %	67.446 %	64.468 %	66.255 %
							9.	10.	6.	8.	13.
11.	11	Pegasus MK	Ross-Davies, Anna	GBR		670 EUR	305	305	291	305	308	1514 Punkte
	black 13y.G /Elcaro/KWPN/GBR12237/ Bowles,Peter						64.894 %	64.894 %	61.915 %	64.894 %	65.532 %	64.426 %
							10.	12.	14.	12.	10.
12.	9	Elmegardens Marquis	Faurie, Emile	GBR		670 EUR	301	300	293	307	303	1504 Punkte
	bay 11y.G /Michellino/DWB/EST40062/ Mr E Faurie						64.043 %	63.830 %	62.340 %	65.319 %	64.468 %	64.000 %
							12.	13.	13.	11.	13.
13.	4	Helio II	Serre, Arnaud	FRA		670 EUR	295	308	294	301	305	1503 Punkte
	grey 15y.S /Flamenco XII/Banquero VI/PRE/FRA07898/ Fresnillo+Roziere						62.766 %	65.531 %	62.553 %	64.042 %	64.893 %	63.957 %
							14.	10.	12.	13.	12.
14.	2	Rubel 13	Verliefden, Fanny	BEL		670 EUR	295	300	300	298	309	1502 Punkte
	black 15y.G /Rubinstein I/Tin Rocco/OLDBG/BEL10737/ Fanny Verliefden						62.766 %	63.830 %	63.830 %	63.404 %	65.745 %	63.915 %
							14.	13.	11.	15.	9.
15.	1	Rintje V	Meganck, Hans	BEL		670 EUR	304	300	291	301	303	1499 Punkte
	black 13y.S /BEL40820/ Arie van Vugt						64.681 %	63.830 %	61.915 %	64.042 %	64.468 %	63.787 %
							11.	13.	14.	13.	13.