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LONDON, Dec. 16, 2013–Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro posted the second highest Grand Prix score ever of 84.851 per cent in winning the London Olympia World Cup Grand Prix Monday, just 1.091 per cent below the British double Olympic gold medal pair’s world record.

The result for Charlotte and the 11-year-old KWPN gelding eclipsed the 84.447 per cent the partnership posted at this same event a year ago but not enough to exceed the 85.942 per cent world record set at the European Championships in Herning, Denmark in August. Monday’s ride included nine marks of 10.

This iconic Christmas show was their first CDI since the Europeans and has been on their calendar for each of the three years the pair has competed at Grand Prix.

Edward Gal of the Netherlands and Glock’s Undercover were runnersup with 80.383 per cent, below their best result of 81.763 per cent the pair set at the Europeans. The Dutch rider has a special place in the hearts of British fans for his success with the black superstar stallion Totilas on which he still holds the world Freestyle record of 92.300 per cent set at this same show in 2009.

Danielle Heijkoop and Kingsley Siro, the rising Dutch stars, placed third with 76.383 per cent, that was the best result for the pair at any Grand Prix level.

Danielle and the 14-year-old KWPN gelding, coached by the legendary Anky van Grunsven, began their senior Grand Prix career 18 months ago after success in the Under-25 Division.

Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Digby placed fourth on 74.702 per cent. The horse was retired from Danish team competition at the Europeans.

In fifth place was Great Britain’s Michael Eilberg and Half Moon Delphi, logging a personal best Grand Prix score of 74.106 per cent that surpassed their previous high of 73.00 per cent at Hartpury, England in July.

Michael and the 11-year-old British-bred gray mare (Dimaggio x West Wall), completing their second year at Grand Prix, were the center of a scoring controvery in the Nations Cup at the European Championships in August because of a wide disparity in scores that could have dropped the Britain team to bronze instead of silver.

Finland’s Terhi Stegars and Axis TSF also posted a personal best of 72.021 per cent, nipping their previous high of 72.000 per cent at Paris just two weeks ago.

The Freestyle is scheduled for Tuesday night and will be the halfway mark in the World Cup Western European League calendar of eight competitions to qualify for the Final in Lyon, France in April.

Results:

GRAND PRIX

Placed competitors							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	9	Valegro	Du Jardin, Charlotte	GBR		2700.00 EUR	395.0	412.5	396.5	403.5	386.5	1994.0 points
	bay G /Negro/102UB51/ Mr C Hester, Mrs R Luard						84.042 %	87.766 %	84.362 %	85.851 %	82.234 %	84.851 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	16	Glock’s Undercover	Gal, Edward	NED		2000.00 EUR	379.0	368.0	390.5	377.5	374.0	1889.0 points
	black 12y.G /Ferro/Donnerhall/KWPN/103MH20/ GHPC Holding BV						80.638 %	78.298 %	83.085 %	80.319 %	79.574 %	80.383 %
							2.	2.	2.	2.	2.
3.	17	Kingsley Siro	Heijkoop, Danielle	NED		1300.00 EUR	374.0	357.5	369.0	340.0	357.0	1797.5 points
	black 14y.G /Gribaldi/Hemmingway/KWPN/102NZ55/ D. Heykoop						79.574 %	76.063 %	78.510 %	72.340 %	75.957 %	76.489 %
							3.	3.	3.	6.	3.
4.	5	Digby	Sayn-Wittgenstein, Nathalie zu	DEN		1000.00 EUR	365.5	348.5	347.0	341.5	353.0	1755.5 points
	dbay 16y.G /Donnerhall/Sandro/DWB/DEN02670/ Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein						77.766 %	74.149 %	73.830 %	72.659 %	75.106 %	74.702 %
							4.	4.	5.	5.	4.
5.	10	Half Moon Delphi	Eilberg, Michael	GBR		900.00 EUR	353.0	345.0	354.0	342.0	347.5	1741.5 points
	grey 11y.M /Dimaggio/HANN/103LB61/ Mrs J L Deverill						75.106 %	73.404 %	75.319 %	72.766 %	73.936 %	74.106 %
							5.	5.	4.	4.	5.
6.	8	Noble Dream Concept Sol	Boblet, Marc	FRA		800.00 EUR	337.0	342.0	335.0	342.5	347.5	1704.0 points
	black 11y.M /Caprimond (de) Trak/OLDBG/FRA43253/ Laura Dallara -Jean-Louis Dallar						71.702 %	72.766 %	71.277 %	72.873 %	73.937 %	72.511 %
							7.	6.	8.	3.	5.
7.	7	Axis TSF	Stegars, Terhi	FIN		700.00 EUR	347.5	337.0	339.5	335.0	333.5	1692.5 points
	black 14y.S /Sixtus/Angard/TRAK/GER44244/ Terhi Stegars						73.936 %	71.702 %	72.234 %	71.276 %	70.957 %	72.021 %
							6.	8.	6.	7.	8.
8.	4	Wie-Atlantico de Ymas	Dahl, Anders	DEN		600.00 EUR	336.5	329.0	331.0	328.0	334.5	1659.0 points
	chest 14y.G /Wie Weltmeyer/Rondo/HANN/ESP03716/ Bigwood,Penny						71.596 %	70.000 %	70.426 %	69.787 %	71.170 %	70.596 %
							8.	12.	9.	10.	7.
Other, non-placed competitors
9.	2	Sandro Boy 9	Oatley, Lyndal	AUS			328.0	322.5	336.5	334.0	329.0	1650.0 points
	bay 12y.S /Sandro Hit/Argentinus/OLDBG/103FQ47/ Carol & Andrew Oatley						69.787 %	68.617 %	71.596 %	71.064 %	70.000 %	70.213 %
							11.	13.	7.	8.	9.
10.	13	Fine Time 13	Hester, Carl	GBR			330.5	335.5	321.0	328.5	327.0	1642.5 points
	chest 12y.S /Florestan I/Weinberg/WESTF/GER43406/ Mrs J A Green						70.320 %	71.383 %	68.298 %	69.894 %	69.575 %	69.894 %
							10.	9.	16.	9.	10.
11.	1	Jaybee Alabaster	Beresford, Hayley	AUS			332.5	330.5	324.0	326.5	327.0	1640.5 points
	chest 14y.S /Alabaster/Glorieux/HANN/AUS01433/ Edwards,Beverly & Beresford,Heyley						70.745 %	70.320 %	68.937 %	69.469 %	69.575 %	69.809 %
							9.	11.	12.	11.	10.
12.	12	Andretti H	Griffith, Lara	GBR			326.5	335.0	322.5	325.5	323.5	1633.0 points
	bay 18y.G /Aarking xx/Cavalier/HANN/ITA08433/ Bechtolsheimer,Dr Wilfried+Ursula						69.468 %	71.276 %	68.617 %	69.255 %	68.829 %	69.489 %
							12.	10.	14.	13.	13.
13.	18	Glock’s Romanov	Minderhoud, Hans Peter	NED			324.0	342.0	323.0	314.5	323.0	1626.5 points
	bay 13y.S /Rohdiamant/Grundstein II/OLDBG/DEN40408/ Glock’s Holding BV						68.936 %	72.766 %	68.724 %	66.915 %	68.724 %	69.213 %
							13.	6.	13.	17.	15.
14.	3	Vradin	Missiaen, Simon	BEL			319.0	321.0	328.0	326.0	324.5	1618.5 points
	bay 11y.M /Gribaldi/Michelangelo/KWPN/102YA81/ Missiaen Roland						67.872 %	68.298 %	69.787 %	69.361 %	69.042 %	68.872 %
							15.	14.	10.	12.	12.
15.	11	Topolino	Faurie, Emile	GBR			309.5	320.0	325.0	316.0	323.5	1594.0 points
	dbay 13y.G /Tip Top/102OI25/ Mrs J Bradley						65.851 %	68.085 %	69.149 %	67.234 %	68.830 %	67.830 %
							16.	15.	11.	16.	13.
16.	19	Fleetwood	Hamilton, Malin	SWE			319.5	315.0	322.5	318.5	315.5	1591.0 points
	bay 14y.G /Florestan I/Bormio xx/WESTF/SWE40906/ Malin Hamilton						67.979 %	67.021 %	68.617 %	67.766 %	67.128 %	67.702 %
							14.	17.	14.	15.	16.
17.	15	Pompidou	Tong, Roland	IRL			299.5	318.0	310.5	319.0	310.0	1557.0 points
	bay 15y.G /Prinz Wilhelm/GBR42189/ Mrs S Wrigley						63.723 %	67.659 %	66.064 %	67.872 %	65.957 %	66.255 %
							17.	16.	17.	14.	17.
18.	14	Reve d’Or	Dwyer, Kate	IRL			disqualified
	bay 15y.S /Flemmingh/Statuar/KWPN/BEL10444/ Maureen Dwyer & Maeve Buttlerly