Dressage-News

DONAUESCHINGEN, Germany, Sept. 15–The European Championship team gold medal partnership of Isabell Werth and Don Johnson FRH won the CDI4* Grand Prix Special Sunday with a near personal best while fellow German Jenny Lang and Loverboy was reserve champion in only their second Special.

Isabell and the 12-year-old Hanoverian gelding (Don Frederico x Warkant) overcame problems with the piaffe on Saturday to score 76.417 per cent, just 0.16 per cent below their best in the Special posted 1 1/2 years ago.

“I have been in consultation with the national coach,” Isabell said, “the piaffe/passage tour changed .”

“Before the (European) Championship we did not want to risk anything. The horse was almost always too far back so the piaffe/passage tour was not as nice as shown he can do it really.”

Now, she said, “Johnny,” as sh calls the horse, realized what his rider wants–“a little more forward .”

The 26-year-old Jenny Lang and Loverboy scored 74.250 per cent in only the second Special for the pair that began competing CDI Grand Prix in March, posting eight finishes in the top three in 11 starts that included their first Nations Cup, at Hickstead, England last month. Sunday’s result was almost three percentage points higher than their previous Special performance.

“This is the first time afterwards that I’m sitting in a press conference between Isabel and Nadine,” she said.

She and her sister have had Loverboy since he was five years old and riding the horse at L level.

The result for Jenny and Loverboy, a Holsteiner gelding now 13 years old, qualified the pair for the final of the international dressage series MEGGLE Champions.

Nadine Capellmann, who posted double victories Saturday, was third on Girasol 7 with 73.854 per cent as German combinations filled the top seven places.

Arlene “Tuny” Page of Wellington, Florida and Alina placed ninth on 67.458 per cent.

Results:

Grand Prix Special							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	1118	Don Johnson FRH	Werth, Isabell	GER		3600.00 EUR	350.0	377.0	367.5	370.0	369.5	1834.0
	B 11-j.W v.Don Frederico/M.v.Warkant/HANN/102MB43/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine			RFV Graf v.Schmettow Eversael			72.917 %	78.542 %	76.563 %	77.084 %	76.980 %	76.417 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	699	Loverboy	Lang, Jenny	GER		2000.00 EUR	341.5	359.0	355.0	363.5	363.0	1782.0
	DB 13-j.W v.Lorentin/M.v.Alcatraz 14/HOLST/GER45858/B: Lang, Christin Vivien			RC Schloßäcker			71.146 %	74.792 %	73.958 %	75.729 %	75.625 %	74.250 %
							4.	2.	2.	2.	2.
3.	749	Girasol	Capellmann, Nadine	GER		1300.00 EUR	350.0	359.0	354.0	347.0	362.5	1772.5
	F 12-j.S v.Gribaldi/M.v.Landioso/WÜRTT/102UM07/B: Capellmann, Nadine			RV Würselen 1925 e.V.			72.917 %	74.791 %	73.750 %	72.292 %	75.521 %	73.854 %
							1.	2.	3.	3.	3.
4.	700	Diamonds Forever	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER		1000.00 EUR	345.0	349.5	337.0	337.5	343.5	1712.5
	DB 11-j.W v.Depardieu 11/HANN/103VA32/B: Gericke, Kathrin			RV St. Georg Münster e.V.			71.875 %	72.812 %	70.208 %	70.312 %	71.562 %	71.354 %
							3.	4.	5.	6.	5.
5.	704	Donnelly	Schmidt, Hubertus	GER		800.00 EUR	330.0	345.5	347.0	340.5	349.0	1712.0
	F 12-j.W v.Donnerruf/M.v.Athletico 30/WESTF/GER43432/B: Arl, Jochen			RV Altenautal e. V.			68.750 %	71.979 %	72.291 %	70.937 %	72.708 %	71.333 %
							6.	6.	4.	5.	4.
6.	789	Le Noir	Gräf, Uta	GER		600.00 EUR	341.0	348.0	337.0	343.0	342.5	1711.5
	R 13-j.H /M.v.Caletto/HOLST/GER46057/B: Herzog, Christiane			RFV Weisenheim am Sand e.V.			71.042 %	72.501 %	70.209 %	71.459 %	71.355 %	71.313 %
							5.	5.	5.	4.	6.
7.	232	Diego OLD	Engelen, Marion	GER		500.00 EUR	328.5	344.5	324.0	324.5	332.5	1654.0
	DB 13-j.W v.Don Larino/M.v.Angelino/OLD/GER45457/B: Engelen,Maria			RV Marschall Vorwärts Aldekerk			68.438 %	71.771 %	67.500 %	67.604 %	69.271 %	68.917 %
							7.	7.	7.	8.	7.
8.	380	Jose Kilen	Pedersen, Jon D.	DEN		500.00 EUR	317.0	337.5	313.5	321.0	331.0	1620.0
	B 12-j.W v.Jazz/M.v.Dorpas AA/DWB/102XG58/B: Malling,Tia			Dänemark – Denmark			66.042 %	70.313 %	65.313 %	66.875 %	68.958 %	67.500 %
							12.	8.	10.	11.	8.
9.	12	Alina	Page, Arlene	USA		300.00 EUR	320.0	331.5	316.5	334.0	317.0	1619.0
	B 15-j.S v.Michellino/M.v.Diamant/DWB/USA42838/B: Page,Arlene			Amerika – United States			66.666 %	69.062 %	65.937 %	69.583 %	66.041 %	67.458 %
							11.	9.	8.	7.	11.
10.	212	Darjeeling	Köberle, Stephan	GER		300.00 EUR	323.0	326.0	314.0	324.0	320.5	1607.5
	B 12-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Kennedy/OLD/102VN39/B: Köberle,Stephan			TSG Breisgau e.V.			67.291 %	67.916 %	65.417 %	67.500 %	66.771 %	66.979 %
							9.	11.	9.	9.	10.
11.	565	Rokoko N	Eversfield-Koch, Elizabeth	SUI		200.00 EUR	322.5	327.5	305.0	322.0	329.0	1606.0
	DB 13-j.W v.Rubinstern Noir/M.v.Montano/BRDBG/GER43342/B: Eversfield-Koch,Elizabe			Schweiz – Switzerland			67.188 %	68.230 %	63.542 %	67.084 %	68.542 %	66.917 %
							10.	10.	11.	10.	9.
12.	556	Rigoletto Royal CH	Häcki, Caroline	SUI		200.00 EUR	323.5	319.5	296.0	316.0	316.0	1571.0
	F 11-j.W /N.B./103VA25/B: Häcki,Caroline			Schweiz – Switzerland			67.395 %	66.562 %	61.666 %	65.833 %	65.833 %	65.458 %
							8.	12.	12.	12.	12.