Dressage-News

DONAUESCHINGEN, Germany, Sept. 25–Ulla Salzgeber and Herzruf’s Erbe posted a personal best score of 78.021 per cent in winning the Grand Prix Special at Donaueschingen CDI4* Sunday, narrowly edging out Anky van Grunsven and her 17-year-old Salinero whose result was the best for the Special since before the pair won gold at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Ulla was placed first by two of the five judges while the other three gave the nod to Anky and Salinero with a combined score of 77.958 per cent, that was the best for the pair in the Special since scoring 78.880 at De Steeg in The Netherlands in June, 2008, before the Beijing Games.

“Salinero was great!.” Anky said after the ride Sunday. “Too bad I made two little mistakes in the one-tempis.”

Germany’s Kristina Sprehe on Desperados, among the top Under-25 combinations in Europe, was third on 75.000 per cent.

Ulla and Herzruf’s Erbe finished first in the Grand Prix on Saturday, while Anky and Salinero were second.

Both Olympic gold medal riders, Ulla on Rusty and Anky with individual gold medals on Salinero from the 2008 Beijing and 2004 Athens Games and on Bonfire at Sydney in 2000, have shown only sporadically this year.

Ulla and and the 12-year-old Rhinelander gelding went to four competitions over winter and spring before taking a break and Anky and Salinero once only, in Sweden in July after a break of more than a year while Salinero was recovering from an injury and Anky focused on her other passion, reining, in which she competed at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky last year.

The scores for Anky and Salinero at this event have been second only to Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival among the Dutch elite squad this year.

Ulla has been competing Herzi (Herzruf x Charisma x Caletto I) at Grand Prix for more than three years. The Grand Prix Special at Aachen. Germany, in 2009 was one of their low points when the gelding retired after going lame on his right hind leg.

She next will head to the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, to coach Constanza Jaramillo Calderón, who will ride Wakana on the Colombian team. She bought the 11-year-old mare from Ulla this summer and has been training in Germany.

Complete results:

Platzierte Teilnehmer							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	239	Herzruf’s Erbe	Salzgeber, Ulla	GER		2000 EUR	385.0	376.0	366.0	363.0	382.0	1872.0 Punkte
	F 12-j.W v.Herzruf/M.v.Caletto I/RHLD/GER28121/B: Salzgeber,Ulla						80.230 %	78.354 %	76.271 %	75.645 %	79.605 %	78.021 %
							1.	2.	2.	2.	1.
2.	591	Salinero	Grunsven, Anky van	NED		1800 EUR	376.0	379.0	371.0	364.0	380.0	1871.0 Punkte
	B 17-j.W v.Salieri/M.v.Lungau/HANOVERIAN/USA07896/B: A. V. Grunsven & Y. V. Gruns						78.333 %	78.958 %	77.291 %	75.833 %	79.166 %	77.958 %
							2.	1.	1.	1.	2.
3.	757	Desperados	Sprehe, Kristina	GER		1600 EUR	359.0	351.0	361.0	359.0	369.0	1800.0 Punkte
	R 10-j.H v.De Niro/M.v.Wolkenstein/HANN/GER45347/B: Gestüt Sprehe GmbH						74.792 %	73.125 %	75.208 %	74.792 %	76.875 %	75.000 %
							3.	3.	3.	3.	3.
4.	286	Le Noir	Gräf, Uta	GER		1200 EUR	340.0	333.0	354.0	349.0	350.0	1726.0 Punkte
	R 11-j.H v.Leandro/M.v.Caletto I/HOLST/GER46057/B: Herzog,Christiane						70.854 %	69.396 %	73.772 %	72.730 %	72.938 %	71.938 %
							5.	8.	4.	5.	4.
5.	383	Potomac	Lebek, Susanne	GER		800 EUR	330.0	336.0	354.0	356.0	349.0	1726.0 Punkte
	B 16-j.H v.Prince Orac xx/M.v.Wenzel I/HANN/GER22958/B: Schwab,Eric						68.750 %	70.000 %	73.750 %	74.167 %	72.709 %	71.917 %
							9.	6.	4.	4.	5.
6.	755	Franziskus	Koschel, Christoph	GER		700 EUR	350.0	335.0	337.0	338.0	349.0	1709.0 Punkte
	B 13-j.W v.Fidermark NRW/M.v.Potsdam NRW/WESTF/GER25535/B: Gestüt Kampmann GmbH &						72.938 %	69.812 %	70.229 %	70.437 %	72.729 %	71.229 %
							4.	7.	6.	6.	6.
7.	189	Fabriano	Voglsang, Renate	AUT		500 EUR	332.0	339.0	336.0	331.0	328.0	1667.0 Punkte
	B 12-j.H v.Florestan I/M.v.Angelo xx/WESTF/GER42005/B: Voglsang,Renate						69.166 %	70.625 %	70.000 %	68.958 %	68.333 %	69.458 %
							7.	4.	7.	7.	7.
8.	694	Lamarc WRT	Becker, Sabine	GER		400 EUR	332.0	339.0	330.0	331.0	328.0	1661.0 Punkte
	DB 15-j.W v.Leggiero/M.v.Kronprinz xx/OLD/GER41542/B: Becker, Sabine						69.187 %	70.646 %	68.771 %	68.979 %	68.354 %	69.229 %
							6.	4.	8.	8.	7.
9.	368	Pavarotti	Michalke, Victoria	GER		300 EUR	332.0	329.0	325.0	321.0	326.0	1634.0 Punkte
	DB 14-j.W v.Ferro/KWPN/GER44159/B: Michalke,Susanne						69.166 %	68.541 %	67.708 %	66.875 %	67.916 %	68.083 %
							7.	9.	9.	9.	9.
10.	422	Rokoko N	Eversfield-Koch, Elizabeth	SUI		250 EUR	320.0	327.0	316.0	318.0	317.0	1599.0 Punkte
	DB 11-j.W v.Rubinstern Noir/M.v.Montano/BRDBG/GER43342/B: Eversfield-Koch,Elizabe						66.688 %	68.146 %	65.854 %	66.271 %	66.062 %	66.646 %
							10.	11.	12.	11.	10.
11.	587	Don-Dior	Freund, Frank	GER		250 EUR	312.0	328.0	316.0	319.0	311.0	1586.0 Punkte
	F 11-j.W v.Don Gregory/M.v.Matcho AA/102MY60/B: Freund,Frank						65.020 %	68.355 %	65.854 %	66.479 %	64.812 %	66.104 %
							12.	10.	11.	10.	12.
12.	592	Oklarette	Wernsen, Wilma	NED		200 EUR	320.0	322.0	318.0	304.0	312.0	1577.0 Punkte
	R 15-j.S v.Ferro/M.v.Candyboy/KWPN/NED41413/B: Wernsen,Wilma						66.666 %	67.083 %	66.250 %	63.333 %	65.000 %	65.708 %
							11.	12.	10.	12.	11.