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The 23-year-old Anna Kasprzak and Donnperignon maintained their lead in the Danish Championships by winning the Grand Prix Special Saturday, a day after claiming the Grand Prix.

The score of 77.500 per cent for Anna and the 14-year-old Finnish Warmblood gelding (Donnerhall x Mozart II79) followed Friday’s winning Grand Prix result of 75.681 per cent for the combinations that at No. 10 in the latest world rankings makes them the top Danish rider and horse.

Lone Bang Larsen and Fitou L were second on 76.354 per cent in the Special, up a place from the Grand Prix on 74.894 per cent while Andreas Helgstrand on Akeem Foldager that he’s been riding for less than two months filled the third place on 75.875 per cent, after their fifth place on 72.511 per cent in the Grand Prix.

Longtime leading Danish combination of Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Digby finished fourth on 74.771 per cent after being the runnerup in the Grand Prix on 75.085 per cent.

The two United States-based combinations, Lars Petersen and Mariett and Mikala Gundersen and My Lady gave strong performances in competing their horses in Europe for the first time.

Lars, the Danish Olympian based in Florida, rode the mare Mariett to sixth place on 72.479 per cent in the Special after the Grand Prix result of 69.638 per cent for seventh.

Mikala Gundersen, also resident of Florida, and My Lady posted 71.292 per cent for eighth place. In the Grand Prix the pair finished 12th place on 65.511 per cent.

Both Lars and Mikala have been named to the Nations Cup team for Rotterdam.

The Grand Prix Freestyle is scheduled for Sunday.

Based on the results of these championships and Nations Cup team competitions in Rotterdam and Aachen, Germany later this month, the team will be named to represent Denmark at the European Championships in their homeland at the end of August.

Results:

Grand Prix Special

Judges–E: Isobell Wessels H: Leif Törnblad C: Peter Engel M: Kirsten Søgaard B: Susanne Baarup Christensen

		Rider	Horse		E	H	C	M	B	Total	Place
		Anna Kasprzak	DONNPERIGNON 1999/DONNERHALL/MONTSERRAT/MOZART II		373.000 1	369.500 2	367.000 1	376.500 1	374.000 1	77.500	1
		Lone Bang Larsen	FITOU L 1999/Florestan I/May Heart L/May Sherif		369.500 2	374.500 1	358.000 2	364.000 3	366.500 2	76.354	2
		Andreas Helgstrand	AKEEM FOLDAGER 2002/Akinos/Lobelia Foldager/Loran		368.500 3	367.000 3	355.000 4	366.000 2	364.500 3	75.875	3
		Nathalie Zu Sayn Wittgenstein	DIGBY 1997/Donnerhall/Øxenholm Pamina/Sandro		362.500 4	364.000 4	356.500 3	351.000 4	360.500 4	74.771	4
		Thomas Sigtenbjerggaard	NINTENDO 2003/Negro/Rodieni R/Monaco		351.500 5	354.500 6	352.000 5	348.500 5	358.000 5	73.521	5
		Lars Petersen	MARIETT 1998/Come Back Ii/Zendi/Sidney		351.500 5	353.000 7	348.000 6	339.000 7	348.000 6	72.479	6
		Lisbet Seierskilde Pedersen	JONSTRUPGÅRDENS RANEUR 1999/Ragazzo/Samantha/Schwadroneur		345.000 8	355.000 5	336.500 7	342.500 6	343.500 7	71.771	7
		Mikala Münter Gundersen	MY LADY //		349.500 7	353.000 7	330.500 8	337.500 8	340.500 8	71.292	8
		Maria Anita Andersen	LOXANA 2002/Diamond Hit/Luandra/Argentinus		336.500 9	336.500 9	329.500 9	324.500 10	332.000 9	69.125	9
		Nathalie Zu Sayn Wittgenstein	FABIENNE //		328.000 10	311.500 12	315.500 12	322.500 11	327.500 10	66.875	10
		Jim Rasmussen	BROHOLM’S HIGHLIGHT 1998/Midt-West Ibi-Light/Kærsgaard’S Soline/Sorel		315.000 11	326.000 10	303.500 16	327.000 9	321.500 12	66.375	11
		Rikke Dupont	DEJAVU 2003/De Niro/Feldbunte/Painters Row Xx		314.500 12	304.000 14	312.500 13	313.500 13	323.000 11	65.312	12
		Anne Torp Madsen	POPPELGÅRDENS GARANT 1997/Grandeur/Prikeur/Raimondo		314.000 13	308.000 13	326.500 10	296.000 16	316.000 13	65.021	13
		Helene Melsen	AKEEM 1996/Lobster/Sari Sikim/Aga-Khan		305.500 15	312.500 11	300.500 17	302.000 14	308.000 14	63.688	14
		Allan Skov Christensen	VOLSTRUPGAARDS CASSIOPEIA 2001/Come Back Ii/Fremad´S Caletta/Caletto Iii		306.000 14	297.500 15	307.000 15	319.500 12	296.000 15	63.583	15
		Jacqueline Ferring Strassmann	MEISTER 2000/Milan/Veronica/Vemmetofte Rainman		297.000 16	288.000 17	310.500 14	300.500 15	295.500 16	62.146	16
		Bente Kronborg Jensen	LOTHRINGER 6 //		283.000 17	290.000 16	320.500 11	282.000 18	281.500 18	60.708	17
		Nikolai Kowalski	GEVELTS DONNA TELLA 2003/Blue Hors Don Schufro/Warkante/Warkant		281.000 18	280.000 18	276.500 18	290.500 17	286.500 17	58.938	18