Nadine Capellmann & Girasol Win Donaueschingen CDI4* Grand Prix

DONAUESCHINGEN, Germany, Sept. 14–Nadine Capellmann and Girasol 7 posted their third straight win this year when the pair won the CDI4* Grand Prix Saturday for a German sweep of the top eight places.

Nadine, a 2008 Olympic team gold rider, rode the 12-year-old 12-year-old Württemberger mare (Gribaldi x Landioso) to a score of 73.170 per cent. Jenny Lang on Loverboy placed second on 72.872 per cent, a personal best for the pair that started at CDI Grand Prix less than six months ago. Hubertus Schmidt and Donnelly were third on 71.617 per cent.

Nadine and Girasol won both the Grand Prix and the Special at their previous competition in Verden, Germany last month, The only previous win since starting their international Grand Prix career in March, 2011 was at Dortmund, Germany last year.

Arlene Page of Wellington, Florida and Alina placed ninth with 69.000 per cent.

Results:

Grand Prix							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	749	Girasol	Capellmann, Nadine	GER		2000.00 EUR	351.0	339.5	355.0	337.5	336.5	1719.5
	F 12-j.S v.Gribaldi/M.v.Landioso/WÜRTT/102UM07/B: Capellmann, Nadine			RV Würselen 1925 e.V.			74.681 %	72.234 %	75.532 %	71.808 %	71.596 %	73.170 %
							1.	3.	1.	3.	6.
2.	699	Loverboy	Lang, Jenny	GER		1300.00 EUR	344.0	336.5	336.0	327.0	369.0	1712.5
	DB 13-j.W v.Lorentin/M.v.Alcatraz 14/HOLST/GER45858/B: Lang, Christin Vivien			RC Schloßäcker			73.191 %	71.595 %	71.489 %	69.574 %	78.510 %	72.872 %
							2.	4.	3.	8.	1.
3.	704	Donnelly	Schmidt, Hubertus	GER		900.00 EUR	330.5	347.5	327.0	341.0	337.0	1683.0
	F 12-j.W v.Donnerruf/M.v.Athletico 30/WESTF/GER43432/B: Arl, Jochen			RV Altenautal e. V.			70.319 %	73.936 %	69.574 %	72.553 %	71.702 %	71.617 %
							7.	1.	8.	1.	5.
4.	1118	Don Johnson FRH	Werth, Isabell	GER		700.00 EUR	329.5	341.0	332.5	327.5	350.5	1681.0
	B 11-j.W v.Don Frederico/M.v.Warkant/HANN/102MB43/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine			RFV Graf v.Schmettow Eversael			70.106 %	72.553 %	70.745 %	69.681 %	74.575 %	71.532 %
							8.	2.	5.	6.	3.
5.	789	Le Noir	Gräf, Uta	GER		500.00 EUR	333.5	326.5	337.5	327.5	352.0	1677.0
	R 13-j.H /M.v.Caletto/HOLST/GER46057/B: Herzog, Christiane			RFV Weisenheim am Sand e.V.			70.958 %	69.468 %	71.809 %	69.681 %	74.894 %	71.362 %
							4.	7.	2.	6.	2.
6.	700	Diamonds Forever	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER		400.00 EUR	332.0	333.5	328.0	339.5	331.0	1664.0
	DB 11-j.W v.Depardieu 11/HANN/103VA32/B: Gericke, Kathrin			RV St. Georg Münster e.V.			70.639 %	70.958 %	69.788 %	72.235 %	70.426 %	70.809 %
							6.	5.	7.	2.	7.
7.	651	Unee BB	Bredow-Werndl, Jessica von	GER		300.00 EUR	337.0	332.0	335.5	317.0	340.5	1662.0
	DB 12-j.H v.Gribaldi/M.v.Dageraad/KWPN/102YN67/B: Bürchler-Keller,Beatrice A.			RFV Aubenhausen e.V.			71.702 %	70.638 %	71.383 %	67.446 %	72.446 %	70.723 %
							3.	6.	4.	10.	4.
8.	232	Diego OLD	Engelen, Marion	GER		300.00 EUR	329.5	325.5	325.0	329.0	329.5	1638.5
	DB 13-j.W v.Don Larino/M.v.Angelino/OLD/GER45457/B: Engelen,Maria			RV Marschall Vorwärts Aldekerk			70.106 %	69.255 %	69.149 %	70.000 %	70.106 %	69.723 %
							8.	8.	9.	5.	9.
9.	12	Alina	Page, Arlene	USA		300.00 EUR	333.0	311.5	330.0	316.5	330.5	1621.5
	B 15-j.S v.Michellino/M.v.Diamant/DWB/USA42838/B: Page,Arlene			Amerika – United States			70.851 %	66.277 %	70.213 %	67.340 %	70.319 %	69.000 %
							5.	11.	6.	11.	8.
10.	380	Jose Kilen	Pedersen, Jon D.	DEN		300.00 EUR	328.0	325.0	317.0	321.0	322.5	1613.5
	B 12-j.W v.Jazz/M.v.Dorpas AA/DWB/102XG58/B: Malling,Tia			Dänemark – Denmark			69.788 %	69.149 %	67.447 %	68.298 %	68.617 %	68.660 %
							10.	9.	10.	9.	10.
Not Placed
11.	212	Darjeeling	Köberle, Stephan	GER			324.0	315.0	310.5	330.5	308.5	1588.5
	B 12-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Kennedy/OLD/102VN39/B: Köberle,Stephan			TSG Breisgau e.V.			68.936 %	67.022 %	66.064 %	70.319 %	65.639 %	67.596 %
							11.	10.	11.	4.	12.
12.	565	Rokoko N	Eversfield-Koch, Elizabeth	SUI			313.0	311.5	303.5	312.5	312.5	1553.0
	DB 13-j.W v.Rubinstern Noir/M.v.Montano/BRDBG/GER43342/B: Eversfield-Koch,Elizabe			Schweiz – Switzerland			66.596 %	66.276 %	64.574 %	66.489 %	66.489 %	66.085 %
							12.	11.	12.	12.	11.
13.	1144	Wilco V	Orshaegen, Mario van	BEL			308.5	298.0	302.0	300.5	293.0	1502.0
	R 10-j.W /KWPN/103AL99/B: Orshaegen,Mario van			Belgien – Belgium			65.638 %	63.404 %	64.255 %	63.936 %	62.341 %	63.915 %
							13.	13.	13.	13.	14.
14.	556	Rigoletto Royal CH	Häcki, Caroline	SUI			302.0	294.0	297.0	293.5	307.0	1493.5
	F 11-j.W /N.B./103VA25/B: Häcki,Caroline			Schweiz – Switzerland			64.255 %	62.553 %	63.191 %	62.447 %	65.319 %	63.553 %
							14.	14.	14.	14.	13.
15.	230	Die Süsse	Kaldewei, Maria	GER			276.0	259.0	261.5	286.0	278.0	1360.5
	DB 11-j.S v.Diamond Hit/M.v.World Cup II/OLD/103AS62/B: Kaldewei,Franz-Dieter			RFV v.Lützow Herford e. V.			58.724 %	55.107 %	55.639 %	60.851 %	59.149 %	57.894 %
							15.	15.	15.	15.	15.