Dressage-News

ODENSE, Denmark, Oct. 19, 2014–Edward Gal and Glock’s Undercover performed their highest scoring Grand Prix Freestyle at 88.625 per cent on Sunday to claim the first event in the Western European World Cup series leading to the Final in Las Vegas next April.

Edward Gal and the 13-year-old KWPN gelding (Ferro Donnerhall) were awarded more than four percentage points ahead of fellow Dutch combination and two-time World Cup champion Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival that received 84.300 per cent with Germany’s Iseball Werth on Don Johnson FRH in third place on 80.275 per cent.

The win gives Edward 20 points and moves the pair to the top of the Western European League standings.

The previous best Freestyle score for Edward and Undercover was 87.425 per cent at London’s Olympia Christmas show last December, but well below the rider’s best ever of 92.300 per cent on Totilas at Olympia in 2009 that was a world record before Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin on Valegro established a new high of 93.975 per cent also set at Olympia last Christmas.

Edward has been competing Undercover at Grand Prix since April 2012 and their record includes the Olympic Games in London in 2012, World Cup Finals in 2012 and 2013 and the European Championships in 2013. The duo placed third behind Charlotte on Valegro in the Final at Lyon, France in April this year with Germany’s Helen Langehanenberg on Damon Hill NRW the runnerup.

If Edward, 44 years old, and Undercover make it to the Final in Las Vegas April 15-19 it will be the first competition for the pair outside Western Europe.

The rider was World Cup champion on Totilas in the pair’s only Finals appearance, at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands in 2010, just six months before the black stallion was sold to Germany for Matthias Alexander Rath to compete.

One of Edward’s most memorable moments at a World Cup Final was his victory on Lingh over Anky van Grunsven on Salinero in the Grand Prix at Las Vegas in 2005 but Anky went on to win the Freestyle, one of their record nine World Cup titles. (The most World Cups any other rider has won is two–Christine Stückelberger of Switzerland, Germany’s Isabell Werth, Monica Theodorescu and Ulla Salzgeber and Adelinde Cornelissen of the Netherlands.)

Adelinde claimed the title on Parzival in 2011 and 2012, but the horse will be 18 years old next year and will have been competed at CDI Big Tour for more than eight years. No horse as old as 18 has won the Word Cup since its debut in 1986 as the only individual global championship decided by what was then the newly introduced Musical Freestyle.

The next WEL event is scheduled for Lyon, France Oct. 29-Nov. 2 followed by Stuttgart, Germany Nov, 19-23, Stockholm Nov. 28-30, Olympia, London Dec. 16-17, Amsterdam Jan. 29-Feb. 1, Neumünster, Germany Feb. 12-15, Gothenburg, Sweden Feb. 26-Mar. 1 and s’-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Mar. 12-15.

Results:

Grand Prix Freestyle

Rank			Rider	Horse	E	H	C	M	B	Total
1			Edward Gal Nederlands	GLOCK’S UNDERCOVER N.O.P. Ferro – Donnerhall Hendriksen-de Rijk GHPC Holding BV	87.500  87.000  87.2501	85.500  88.000  86.7501	88.000  92.000  90.0001	88.000  94.000  91.0001	85.250  91.000  88.1251	86.850  90.40088.625
2			Adelinde Cornelissen Nederlands	JERICH PARZIVAL N.O.P. Jazz – Ulft J.M. BEIJER-DE KLEIJN W.P.J. Cornelissen / M.A. Cornelissen	79.500  86.000  82.7502	80.500  83.000  81.7502	81.500  90.000  85.7502	82.000  91.000  86.5002	80.500  89.000  84.7502	80.800  87.800  84.300
3			Isabell Werth Germany	DON JOHNSON FRH Don Frederico – Warkant Meyer, Ulrike Winter-Schulze, Madeleine	75.000  82.000  78.5004	77.000  82.000  79.5003	77.250  84.000  80.6253	77.000  82.000  79.5004	80.500  86.000  83.2503	77.350  83.200  80.275
4			Ulla Salzgeber Germany	HERZRUF’S ERBE Herzruf – Caletto I Stroetges Heinz u. Dagmar Ulla Salzgeber	77.750  81.000  79.3753	74.500  82.000  78.2504	74.250  81.000  77.6255	78.250  83.000  80.6253	79.250  83.000  81.1254	76.800  82.000  79.400
5			Hans Peter Mindehoud Nederlands	GLOCK’S FLIRT Florestan – Gauguin de Lully Haras Fünfschilling Lully Ing. Gaston Glock	77.000  80.000  78.5005	74.500  78.000   76.2505	75.750  81.000  78.3754	73.500  81.000  77.2505	74.500  79.000  76.7505	75.050  79.800   77.425
6			Agnete Kirk Thinggaard Denmark	JOJO AZ Ginus – Justboy Enyingi Agrár Rt. JULIANELYST APS	74.750  80.000  77.3756	70.500  76.000  73.2507	70.500  75.000  72.7508	74.250  79.000  76.6256	71.750  78.000  74.8756	72.350  77.600  74.975
7			Sönke Rothenberger Germany	FAVOURIT Fidermark – Worldchamp Eberhard Schulte-Böcker Rothenberger im Gestüt Erlenhof OHG	72.500  76.000  74.2507	73.500  76.000  74.7506	74.000  78.000  76.0006	72.750  77.000  74.8757	72.750  75.000  73.8757	73.100  76.400  74.750
8			Patrick Van Der Meer Nederlands	UZZO LANCET – INDOCTRO A L J. SCHONEWILLE, PIJNACKER (NL) Trainingsstal de hoeve	71.000  73.000  72.00010	69.500  73.000  71.25010	71.250   75.000   73.1257	70.000  74.000  72.00011	68.250  72.000  70.12513	70.000  73.400  71.700
9			Jeanna Högberg Sweden	DARCIA VH Danone 1040 – Don Schufro Birgitta & Torsten Hansson Jeanna Högberg & Torsten Hansson	70.500  74.000   72.2509	73.250  72.000  72.6258	69.250  71.000  70.12510	71.000  74.000  72.5009	69.750  72.000  70.87511	70.750  72.600  71.675
10			Fabienne Lütkemeier Germany	QUI VINCIT DYNAMIS Quattro B – Calypso II Merkhoffer Heide-Marie Capellmann-Lütkemeier Gina	70.000  75.000  72.5008	70.000  72.000  71.00012	67.750  72.000  69.87511	71.750  74.000  72.8758	68.250  73.000  70.62512	69.550  73.200  71.375
11			Paulinda Friberg Sweden	DI LAPPONIA T Donnerhall – Argument Joachim Tobaben Paulinda Friberg	70.750  72.000  71.37511	70.750  73.000  71.8759	68.000  69.000  68.50013	70.000  74.000  72.00011	71.750  74.000  72.8759	70.250  72.400 71.325
12			Morgan Barbançon Mestre Espania	VITANA V Donnerhall – Hemmingway J.Cuppen	69.000  71.000  70.00013	69.250  73.000  71.12511	68.250  69.000  68.62512	70.250  74.000  72.12510	71.000  75.000  73.0008	69.55072.40070.975
13			Jim Rasmussen Denmark	BROHOLM´S HIGHLIGHT MIDT-WEST IBI-LIGHT – SOREL Bent Andersen og Trine Schonnings, Bogen Bent Andersen + Trine Schonnings	68.000  72.000  70.00012	68.500  71.000  69.75013	70.000  72.000  71.0009	70.000  73.000  71.50013	69.000  73.000  71.00010	69.10072.20070.650
14			Lena Leschly Aamann Denmark	GOERKLINTGAARDS FANERO OLYMPIC FERRO – LE MONT-H LENA LESCHLY ÅMAND	66.000  67.000  66.50015	66.250  70.000  68.12514	65.000  68.000  66.50015	68.000  69.000  68.50014	66.500  68.000   67.25015	66.35068.40067.375
15			Trude K. Hestengen Norway	TOBAJO PIK DISNEY TOBAJO PICEZ – WALT DISNEY I Tormod Bakke Johnsen Trude Hestengen and Family	65.750  68.000 66.87514	64.750 69.0006 6.87515	65.750 69.000 67.37514	65.500 70.000 67.75015	65.250 70.000 67.62514	65.400 69.20067.300