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BALVE, Germany, June 7–Helen Langehanenberg rode Damon Hill NRW to victory in the Grand Prix Friday in kicking off their quest to repeat as German champions while Isabell Werth and Don Johnson FRH continued to show improvement to be runnerup.

Helen and the 13-year-old Westfalen stallion (Donnerhall x Rubinstein I) that was the highest placed German combination at last summer’s Olympics, scored 80.553 per cent from the all-German five-judge panel.

Isabell and Don Johnson, 11-year-old Hanoverian gelding, were scored at 78.340 per cent while Anabel Balkenhol and Dablino FRH that were also on the 2012 Olympic squad were third on 76.000 per cent.

Helen and Damon Hill won the World Cup title in April and the pair is ranked No. 2 in the world.

These competition at the Balve Optimum for the 10th time are mandatory for riders seeking to be on the German team at the European Championships in Denmark late August.

Noticeably absent was Totilas and his rider, Matthias Alexander Rath, whose performance here a year ago was the last public competition for the pair.

A viral infection knocked Matthias out of contention for a place on Germany’s Olympic team, the pair has been dropped from the elite German squads and is no longer amog the 640 combinations on the International Equestrian Federation’s world rankings.

The 13-year=old KWPN back stallion (Gribaldi x Glendale) has suffered a series of injuries since Matthias took over the ride from Edward Gal of the Netherlands after sweeping the team and individual medals at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky in 2010.

In 13 starts at five official international competitions from Munich in June 2011 to Hagen in May 2012, the posted eight wins and five other placing. The only championship Matthias and Totilas participated in was the Europeans in Rotterdam in 2011.

Since then, Matthias, the stepson of Ann-Katrin Linsenhof who owns the horse with Paul Schockemöhle of Performance Sales International, has switched training to former Dutch coach Sjef Janssen from his father, Klaus Martin Rath. He has repeated that the long term goal with Totilas is the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Results:

Grand Prix							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	233	Damon Hill NRW	Langehanenberg, Helen	GER		4500 EUR	380.0	373.0	376.0	373.0	391.0	1893.0 Points
	DF 13-j.H v.Donnerhall/M.v.Rubinstein I/WESTF/GER26971/B: Becks,Christian			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			80.851 %	79.362 %	80.000 %	79.362 %	83.191 %	80.553 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	252	Don Johnson FRH	Werth, Isabell	GER		3600 EUR	375.0	369.0	368.0	362.0	367.0	1841.0
	B 11-j.W v.Don Frederico/M.v.Warkant/HANN/102MB43/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine			RFV Graf v.Schmettow Eversael			79.787 %	78.510 %	78.297 %	77.021 %	78.085 %	78.340 %
							2.	2.	2.	2.	2.
3.	565	Dablino FRH	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER		2800 EUR	364.0	362.0	351.0	354.0	355.0	1786.0
	DF 13-j.W v.De Niro 6/M.v.Wanderbursch 10/HANN/GER41335/B: Balkenhol, Klaus			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			77.447 %	77.021 %	74.681 %	75.319 %	75.532 %	76.000 %
							3.	3.	3.	3.	3.
4.	232	D’Agostino	Lütkemeier, Fabienne	GER		2200 EUR	346.0	338.0	348.0	340.0	344.0	1716.0
	F 13-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Shogun xx/HANN/GER42139/B: Capellmann-Lütkemeier,Gina			RFV Paderborn e.V.			73.617 %	71.915 %	74.042 %	72.340 %	73.191 %	73.021 %
							4.	5.	5.	5.	4.
5.	313	Girasol	Capellmann, Nadine	GER		1600 EUR	345.0	341.0	350.0	347.0	331.0	1714.0
	F 12-j.S v.Gribaldi/M.v.Landioso/WÜRTT/102UM07/B: Capellmann,Nadine			RV Würselen 1925 e.V.			73.404 %	72.553 %	74.468 %	73.830 %	70.425 %	72.936 %
							5.	4.	4.	4.	7.
6.	257	Dresden Mann	Klimke, Ingrid	GER			343.0	332.0	343.0	329.0	335.0	1682.0
	SCHWB 9-j.H v.Dresemann/M.v.Florestan I/WESTF/102MC51/B: Wallace,Clodagh			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			72.978 %	70.638 %	72.978 %	70.000 %	71.276 %	71.574 %
							6.	8.	6.	8.	5.
7.	531	Unee BB	Werndl, Jessica	GER			324.0	336.0	335.0	336.0	334.0	1665.0
	DB 12-j.H v.Gribaldi/M.v.Dageraad/KWPN/102YN67/B: Bürchler-Keller,Beatrice A.			RFV Aubenhausen e.V.			68.936 %	71.489 %	71.277 %	71.489 %	71.064 %	70.851 %
							9.	7.	7.	6.	6.
Other competitors
8.	483	Rostropowitsch NRW	Koschel, Christoph	GER			326.0	319.0	326.0	334.0	327.0	1632.0
	DB 11-j.H v.Rockwell/M.v.Coriograf B/WESTF/102NH54/B: Koschel Dr.,Gabriele			RSC Osnabruecker Land e.V.			69.362 %	67.873 %	69.362 %	71.064 %	69.575 %	69.447 %
							8.	13.	12.	7.	8.
9.	480	Riccoletto	Kempkes, Matthias	GER			333.0	331.0	332.0	317.0	318.0	1631.0
	F 11-j.W v.Rivero II/M.v.Alcatraz/BAY/103CG45/B: Kempkes,Matthias			RA München e.V.			70.851 %	70.425 %	70.638 %	67.447 %	67.659 %	69.404 %
							7.	9.	9.	11.	11.
10.	236	Dandelion	Gräf, Uta	GER			310.0	338.0	334.0	327.0	312.0	1621.0
	B 11-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Figaro/OLD/GER45775/B: Lindsten,Michael			RFV Weisenheim am Sand e.V.			65.958 %	71.915 %	71.064 %	69.575 %	66.383 %	68.979 %
							14.	5.	8.	9.	14.
11.	247	Diego OLD	Engelen, Marion	GER			316.0	326.0	324.0	316.0	321.0	1603.0
	DB 13-j.W v.Don Larino/M.v.Angelino/OLD/GER45457/B: Engelen,Maria			RV Marschall Vorwärts Aldekerk			67.234 %	69.362 %	68.936 %	67.234 %	68.298 %	68.213 %
							11.	10.	13.	12.	9.
12.	272	Favourit	Rothenberger, Sanneke	GER			316.0	324.0	321.0	319.0	315.0	1595.0
	DF 14-j.W v.Fidermark I/M.v.Worldchamp/RHLD/AUT40060/B: Rothenberger im Gestüt Er			Bad Homburger RFV			67.234 %	68.936 %	68.298 %	67.872 %	67.021 %	67.872 %
							11.	11.	14.	10.	13.
13.	414	Nymphenburgs Rockport OLD	Fircks, Johanna von	GER			319.0	318.0	328.0	312.0	305.0	1582.0
	DF 11-j.W v.Relevant/M.v.Freiherr/OLD/102VB82/B: Fircks,Helmut Freiherr von			RSC Osnabruecker Land e.V.			67.872 %	67.659 %	69.787 %	66.383 %	64.893 %	67.319 %
							10.	15.	11.	14.	15.
14.	387	Loverboy	Lang, Jenny	GER			306.0	322.0	321.0	316.0	316.0	1581.0
	DB 13-j.W v.Lorentin I/M.v.Alcatraz/HOLST/GER45858/B: Lang,Christin Vivien			RC Schloßäcker			65.107 %	68.511 %	68.298 %	67.234 %	67.234 %	67.277 %
							15.	12.	14.	12.	12.
15.	243	Desperado	Koppelmann, Carola	GER			303.0	319.0	331.0	308.0	297.0	1558.0
	R 10-j.W v.Dressage Royal/M.v.Rouletto/OLD/GER44119/B: Koppelmann,Carola			Kehdinger Reitclub e.V.			64.468 %	67.872 %	70.426 %	65.532 %	63.192 %	66.298 %
							18.	13.	10.	16.	16.
16.	566	Diamonds Forever	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER			304.0	299.0	320.0	310.0	321.0	1554.0
	DB 11-j.W v.Depardieu 11/HANN/103VA32/B: Gericke, Kathrin			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			64.681 %	63.617 %	68.085 %	65.958 %	68.298 %	66.128 %
							17.	18.	16.	15.	9.
17.	82	Capri	Thormählen, Klaus	GER			315.0	306.0	311.0	304.0	293.0	1529.0
	F 12-j.W v.Corvalon/M.v.Cannonball/SANHA/103GN84/B: Thormählen,Ann-Cathrin			PS Granderheide e.V.			67.021 %	65.107 %	66.170 %	64.681 %	62.341 %	65.064 %
							13.	17.	17.	17.	18.
18.	296	Franziskus	Stamkötter, Martin	GER			305.0	315.0	303.0	297.0	295.0	1515.0
	B 15-j.W v.Fidermark I/M.v.Potsdam/WESTF/GER25535/B: Gestüt Kampmann ,			RFV Milte-Sassenberg e. V.			64.894 %	67.021 %	64.468 %	63.191 %	62.766 %	64.468 %
							16.	16.	18.	18.	17.
19.	553	Wolkenstein	Thormählen, Klaus	GER			279.0	274.0	267.0	272.0	278.0	1370.0
	B 13-j.W v.Werther’s Wels/M.v.Balzac/BAY/GER42920/B: Thormählen,Klaus			PS Granderheide e.V.			59.362 %	58.298 %	56.809 %	57.872 %	59.149 %	58.298 %
							19.	19.	19.	19.	19.