Dressage-News

BALVE, Germany, June 2–Damon Hill NRW, the spectacular stallion ridden by the petite Helen Langehanenberg, was victorious in the German Championship Olympic Grand Prix Special Saturday, while Matthas Alexander Rath and Totilas were saved from third place by a huge score from a single judge.

Helen and the 12-year-old Westfalen stallion (Donnerhall x Romanze x Rubinstein I) scored 85.822 per cent, easily the highest score for the pair but this is a national competition, not a CDI, and all five judges are Germans. Four of the five judges scored the pair No. 1.

Only Martin Richenhagen had the reserve champions at April’s World Cup Final in second place.

When Matthias and Totilas completed their ride as the last to go in the class, he awarded the pair a whopping 88.889 per cent–higher than when Edward Gal rode Totilas to a world record for the Special and even greater than the new world record set by Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin on Valegro at Hagen, Germany, in April. Of the four other panelists, one awarded a high of 82.223 per cent and the remainder scores of 81+ per cent for a total of 83.156 per cent. Six of the 15 scores of 10 were from the same high scoring judge.

It was enough to place Kristina Sprehe and Desperados, barely a year out of the Under-25 division, in third with 82.311  per cent.

Anabel Balkenhol and Dablino filled fourth place–as they did in the Grand Prix Friday–with 76.444 per cent.

Isabell Werth and El Santo NRW faded to ninth place with 72.089 per cent and is in danger of not making a German Olympic team for only the second time in the past six Games in which she became the world’s most successful Olympic dressage competitor.

Complete results:

Olympic Grand Prix Special							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	236	Damon Hill NRW	Langehanenberg, Helen	GER		4700 EUR	377.0	391.0	387.0	386.0	390.0	1931.0 Punkte
	DF 12-j.H v.Donnerhall/M.v.Rubinstein I/WESTF/GER26971/B: Becks,Christian			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			83.778 %	86.889 %	86.000 %	85.778 %	86.666 %	85.822 %
							1.	2.	1.	1.	1.
2.	677	Totilas	Rath, Matthias Alexander	GER		4000 EUR	367.0	400.0	366.0	370.0	368.0	1871.0 Punkte
	R 12-j.H v.Gribaldi/KWPN/NED08021/B: Linsenhoff u.Paul Schockemöhle, Ann			Frankf.Turnierst.Schw.Gelb e.V			81.556 %	88.889 %	81.334 %	82.223 %	81.778 %	83.156 %
							3.	1.	3.	2.	2.
3.	246	Desperados	Sprehe, Kristina	GER		3200 EUR	371.0	371.0	372.0	370.0	368.0	1852.0 Punkte
	R 11-j.H v.De Niro/M.v.Wolkenstein II/HANN/GER45347/B: Gestüt Sprehe GmbH,			RUFG Falkenberg e.V.			82.444 %	82.444 %	82.667 %	82.222 %	81.778 %	82.311 %
							2.	3.	2.	2.	2.
4.	231	Dablino	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER		2500 EUR	344.0	366.0	343.0	331.0	336.0	1720.0 Punkte
	DF 12-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Wanderbursch II/HANN/GER41335/B: Balkenhol,Klaus			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			76.444 %	81.333 %	76.222 %	73.555 %	74.666 %	76.444 %
							5.	4.	4.	7.	5.
5.	249	Diva Royal	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		2000 EUR	348.0	329.0	339.0	343.0	337.0	1696.0 Punkte
	SCHWB 10-j.S v.Don Frederico/M.v.Warkant/HANN/GER45474/B: Roth,Katharina			Frankf.Turnierst.Schw.Gelb e.V			77.334 %	73.111 %	75.334 %	76.222 %	74.889 %	75.378 %
							4.	6.	5.	4.	4.
6.	588	Whisper	Theodorescu, Monica	GER		1300 EUR	332.0	340.0	322.0	325.0	324.0	1643.0 Punkte
	F 14-j.W v.Welt Hit I O/M.v.Weltstar/WÜRTT/GER26878/B: Linsenhoff,Ann Kathrin			RFV Warendorf e.V.			73.778 %	75.555 %	71.555 %	72.222 %	72.000 %	73.022 %
							6.	5.	9.	8.	7.
7.	364	Le Noir	Gräf, Uta	GER		800 EUR	326.0	319.0	332.0	333.0	324.0	1634.0 Punkte
	R 12-j.H v.Leandro/M.v.Caletto I/HOLST/GER46057/B: Herzog,Christiane			RFV Weisenheim am Sand e.V.			72.444 %	70.889 %	73.778 %	74.000 %	72.000 %	72.622 %
							7.	10.	6.	6.	7.
8.	232	D’Agostino	Lütkemeier, Fabienne	GER		500 EUR	324.0	327.0	328.0	325.0	328.0	1632.0 Punkte
	F 12-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Shogun xx/HANN/GER42139/B: Capellmann-Lütkemeier,Gina			RFV Paderborn e.V.			72.000 %	72.666 %	72.889 %	72.222 %	72.889 %	72.533 %
							8.	7.	8.	8.	6.
9.	260	El Santo NRW	Werth, Isabell	GER		500 EUR	322.0	326.0	329.0	334.0	311.0	1622.0 Punkte
	B 11-j.W v.Ehrentusch/M.v.Rhythmus/RHLD/GER44504/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine			RFV Graf v.Schmettow Eversael			71.556 %	72.445 %	73.111 %	74.222 %	69.111 %	72.089 %
							9.	8.	7.	5.	11.
10.	350	Lamarc WRT	Becker, Sabine	GER		500 EUR	317.0	322.0	320.0	319.0	312.0	1590.0 Punkte
	DB 16-j.W v.Leggiero/M.v.Kronprinz xx/OLD/GER41542/B: Becker,Sabine			RG Ober-Castrop e.V.			70.445 %	71.556 %	71.111 %	70.889 %	69.334 %	70.667 %
							10.	9.	10.	10.	10.
Weitere, nicht platzierte Teilnehmer
11.	593	Winci	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER			316.0	312.0	316.0	316.0	316.0	1576.0 Punkte
	F 12-j.S v.Weinberg/M.v.Saluut (ex Rebell)/WESTF/102VG52/B: Balkenhol,Klaus			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			70.222 %	69.333 %	70.222 %	70.222 %	70.222 %	70.044 %
							11.	11.	11.	11.	9.
12.	508	Rostropowitsch NRW	Koschel, Christoph	GER			291.0	297.0	293.0	289.0	289.0	1459.0 Punkte
	DB 10-j.H v.Rockwell/M.v.Coriograf B/WESTF/102NH54/B: Koschel Dr.,Gabriele			RSC Osnabruecker Land e.V.			64.666 %	66.000 %	65.111 %	64.222 %	64.222 %	64.844 %
							12.	12.	12.	12.	12.