Dressage-News

LONDON, Dec. 17–Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro set a world record score of 84.447 per cent for the Grand Prix at London Olympia Monday night in their first competition since winning team and individual gold medals at the summer Olympics and eight months after claiming the record for the Special.

The record beat the previous best of of 84.045 per cent established by Edward Gal and Totilas at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky in 2010 and came in the Grand Prix at the World Cup event at the International Horse Show in London.

The 27-year-old rider and the 10-year-old KWPN gelding (Negro x Maifleur x Gerschwin) who this year became the first British combination to hold the world’s No. 1 ranking, was awarded 12 marks of 10 by the five-judge panel.

The performance was dominating–almost eight percentage points higher than the second place, German star Isabell Werth and Don Johnson FRH on 76.362 per cent and Edward Gal and his Olympic mount, Glock’s Undercover, on 76.128 per cent.

And Carl Hester, Charlotte’s trainer, mentor, part-owner of Valegro and Olympic team mate, rode his Uthopia to a score of 71.128 per cent to place sixth.

Charlotte and Valegro established the Grand Prix Special world record of 88.022 per cent at Horses & Dreams in Hagen, Germany in April this year as preparation for the Olympics in her homeland where they won all three phases of the dressage competition–the Grand Prix (83.663 per cent) and the Special (83.226 per cent) that made up the Nations Cup competition and the Freestyle (90.089 per cent).

The Freestyle, the only record still held by Edward and Totilas, will be staged Tuesday night for points to count toward the Western European League of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Final scheduled for Gothenburg, Sweden in April.

The Freestyle record of 92.300 per cent by the Dutch combination was set aptly at this same event three years ago almost to the day, Dec. 15, 2009.

Charlotte has not announced whether she will seek to start in the World Cup Final as both Valegro and Uthopia are for sale. This was the first of the eight events in the Western European League in which Charlotte and Valegro have started. Olympia is the fifth qualifier.

The British duo’s climb to the top began in March, 2011 with the first international CDI.

In the 21 months since, the pair competed at 10 shows before the Olympics–from Hartpury, England, just minutes from their base at Carl Hester’s Gloucestershire training center, across the Atlantic to Florida’s winter circuit to Horses & Dreams meets Great Britain at Hagen in April where they set the world record for the Grand Prix Special.

RESULTS

Placed competitors							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	7	Valegro	Dujardin, Charlotte	GBR		2700 EUR	401.5	383.5	402.5	409.5	387.5	1984.5 points
	bay 10y.G /Negro/Gerschwin/KWPN/102UB51/ Mr C Hester, Mrs R Luard						85.426 %	81.596 %	85.638 %	87.128 %	82.447 %	84.447 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	10	Don Johnson FRH	Werth, Isabell	GER		2000 EUR	356.5	352.5	368.5	360.0	357.0	1794.5 points
	bay 11y.G /Don Frederico/Warkant/HANN/102MB43/ Winter-Schulze, Madeleine						75.851 %	75.000 %	78.405 %	76.596 %	75.958 %	76.362 %
							3.	2.	2.	2.	3.
3.	14	Glock’s Undercover	Gal, Edward	NED		1300 EUR	365.0	351.5	364.5	348.5	359.5	1789.0 points
	black 11y.G /Ferro/Donnerhall/KWPN/103MH20/ GHPC Holding BV						77.660 %	74.788 %	77.554 %	74.149 %	76.490 %	76.128 %
							2.	3.	3.	3.	2.
4.	18	Santana	Telde, Minna	SWE		1000 EUR	342.5	334.0	342.0	333.5	346.0	1698.0 points
	black 11y.S /Sandro Hit/Rubinstein I/HANN/SWE40105/ Minna Telde Ab / Berit Telde						72.872 %	71.064 %	72.766 %	70.957 %	73.617 %	72.255 %
							4.	5.	5.	7.	4.
5.	3	Schianto	Johansen, Sidsel	DEN		900 EUR	337.5	338.0	348.5	329.0	329.0	1682.0 points
	bay 13y.G /Gribaldi/Schwadroneur/DWB/DEN02780/ Jorgen Rosbog						71.808 %	71.914 %	74.148 %	70.000 %	70.000 %	71.574 %
							5.	4.	4.	10.	6.
6.	9	Uthopia	Hester, Carl	GBR		800 EUR	334.0	334.0	333.0	332.0	338.5	1671.5 points
	bay 11y.S /Metall/Inspekteur/KWPN/GBR40907/ Mr Carl Hester						71.064 %	71.064 %	70.851 %	70.639 %	72.022 %	71.128 %
							7.	5.	8.	9.	5.
7.	15	Toots	Schellekens-Bartels, Imke	NED		700 EUR	328.5	328.0	338.0	335.0	328.5	1658.0 points
	12y.G /Jazz/Havidoff/KWPN/102UD15/ T.Bartels & J.Schellekens						69.893 %	69.787 %	71.915 %	71.276 %	69.893 %	70.553 %
							10.	9.	6.	5.	8.
8.	13	BMC Miciano	van Baalen, Marlies	NED		300 EUR	328.5	319.0	334.5	332.5	327.5	1642.0 points
	chest 11y.G /Medici/Dialekt/WESTF/102NX68/ J.M.J. van Baalen-Dorresteyn & J. H						69.893 %	67.872 %	71.170 %	70.744 %	69.681 %	69.872 %
							10.	11.	7.	8.	9.
8.	8	Half Moon Delphi	Eilberg, Michael George	GBR		300 EUR	332.5	331.0	330.5	319.0	329.0	1642.0 points
	grey 10y.M /Dimaggio/West Wall/103LB61/ Mr Jon and Mrs Julie Deverill						70.744 %	70.425 %	70.319 %	67.872 %	70.000 %	69.872 %
							8.	8.	10.	12.	6.
Other, non-placed competitors
10.	1	Sandro Boy	Oatley, Lyndal	AUS			325.5	325.5	333.0	335.0	319.0	1638.0 points
	bay 11y.S /Sandro Hit/Argentinus/OLDBG/103FQ47/ Oatley, Carol u. Andrew						69.255 %	69.255 %	70.851 %	71.276 %	67.872 %	69.702 %
							12.	10.	8.	5.	12.
11.	5	Pasoa	Crisp, Nikki	GBR			331.5	332.5	323.5	326.0	321.5	1635.0 points
	bay 15y.M /Damocles/Hamilton/KWPN/GBR42285/ Miss N Crisp						70.531 %	70.744 %	68.829 %	69.361 %	68.404 %	69.574 %
							9.	7.	11.	11.	10.
12.	16	Pro – Set	Jebsen, Lillann	NOR			335.0	318.0	317.5	337.5	319.5	1627.5 points
	bay 15y.S /Jetset-D/Flemmingh/KWPN/GBR13819/ Elisif Sommechield/Gustav Jebsen						71.276 %	67.659 %	67.553 %	71.808 %	67.978 %	69.255 %
							6.	12.	12.	4.	11.
13.	2	Vradin	Missiaen, Simon	BEL			322.5	313.0	317.0	317.0	310.5	1580.0 points
	bay 10y.M /Gribaldi/Michelangelo/KWPN/102YA81/ Missiaen Roland						68.617 %	66.596 %	67.447 %	67.447 %	66.064 %	67.234 %
							13.	13.	13.	13.	13.
14.	4	Weltzin	Biggs, Hannah	GBR			311.5	295.0	313.0	315.0	301.5	1536.0 points
	chest 13y.S /Weltbogen/Werther/HANN/GBR42668/ Hannah Biggs						66.277 %	62.766 %	66.596 %	67.022 %	64.149 %	65.362 %
							14.	15.	14.	14.	15.
15.	17	World Performance Washington	Principe, Luis	POR			306.5	303.0	305.5	305.0	301.5	1521.5 points
	bay 13y.S /Wolkenstein/Windhuk/HANN/POR40367/ Luis Principe						65.213 %	64.468 %	65.000 %	64.894 %	64.149 %	64.745 %
							15.	14.	15.	15.	15.
16.	11	Sydney	Rawlins, Dane	IRL			296.5	282.5	301.0	295.5	284.0	1459.5 points
	bay 13y.M /Linaro/Calypso II/HOLST/GBR14528/ Dame Pauline Harris & Dane Rawlins						63.085 %	60.106 %	64.042 %	62.872 %	60.425 %	62.106 %
							16.	17.	16.	17.	17.
17.	12	Has to Be Fun	Truesdale, Yvette	IRL			287.5	288.5	282.0	296.0	302.0	1456.0 points
	bay 15y.S /Welt Hit II/Landadel/OLDBG/IRL03436/ J. Burgess						61.170 %	61.383 %	60.000 %	62.978 %	64.255 %	61.957 %
							17.	16.	17.	16.	14.