Dressage-News

LONDON, Dec. 16, 2014–Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro set a new world record of 87.460 per cent to win the London Olympia World Cup Grand Prix Tuesday night.

The previous record for the pair from Great Britain was 87.129 per cent set at the World Cup Final in Lyon, France last April. Tuesday night’s world record-setting ride included 17 marks of 10.

Valegro, a 12-year-old KWPN gelding (Negro x Gerschwin), holds world records for all three Grand Prix levels–the Grand Prix, Special on 88.022 per cent set at Hagen, Germany in 2012, and the Freestyle 93.975 per cent set at London Olympia in 2013.

Edward Gal of the Netherlands, who had set a world record on Totilas in the Freestyle at this same show in 2009, placed second on Glock’s Undercover on 80.120 per cent.

Danielle Heijkoop, who was to be a team mate of Edward’s at the World Games but had to pull out when Siro was injured, was third on 77.100 per cent.

Carl Hester, part owner of Valegro and trainer and mentor of Charlotte, was fourth on Nip Tuck with a score of 74.680 per cent.

The partnership of Charlotte and Valegro that has Olympic, world, European championship gold and the and World Cup title said:

“We don’t set out to break a record it just happens–we just want to do our best and any record is a bonus.

“It is a great end to the season and fantastic to be competing in front of the home crowd and Blueberry never fails to rise to the occasion.”

An interview with Charlotte after the Grand Prix–http://www.olympiahorseshow.com/show-jumping/audio-london-horse-show/

The record came on the 43rd start by Charlotte, 29 years old, and Valegro since beginning their Grand Prix career in March, 2011 and in their first competition since the the World Equestrian Games in Normandy at the end of August.

British judge Stephen Clarke awarded the pair the highest score, 89.300 per cent with Bernard Maurel of France scoring them at 88.900 per cent with the other three judges all above 86 per cent.

The Freestyle, which Charlotte is competing in as defending World Cup champion, will be held Wednesday night and will be streamed live around the world at http://www.feitv.org/live

Results:

Grand Prix CDI-W							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	8	Valegro	Dujardin, Charlotte	GBR		2700.00 EUR	446.5	432.5	444.5	432.5	430.5	2186.5 points
	bay 12y.G /Negro/Gerschwin/KWPN/102UB51/ Mr C Hester, Mrs R Luard, Mrs A Bar						89.300 %	86.500 %	88.900 %	86.500 %	86.100 %	87.460 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	16	Glock’s Undercover N.O.P.	Gal, Edward	NED		2000.00 EUR	410.5	403.0	379.5	399.5	410.5	2003.0 points
	black 13y.G /Ferro/Donnerhall/KWPN/103MH20/ GHPC Holding BV						82.100 %	80.600 %	75.900 %	79.900 %	82.100 %	80.120 %
							2.	2.	2.	2.	2.
3.	18	Siro N.O.P.	Heijkoop, Danielle	NED		1300.00 EUR	392.5	383.5	376.5	395.0	380.0	1927.5 points
	black 15y.G /Gribaldi/Hemmingway/KWPN/102NZ55/ D.Heykoop & T.E.G.Van Grunsven & J						78.500 %	76.700 %	75.300 %	79.000 %	76.000 %	77.100 %
							3.	3.	3.	3.	3.
4.	9	Nip Tuck	Hester, Carl	GBR		1000.00 EUR	388.0	367.5	361.0	370.5	380.0	1867.0 points
	bay 10y.G /Don Ruto/KWPN/102UB47/ Mr C Hester, Miss Jane de la Mare						77.600 %	73.500 %	72.200 %	74.100 %	76.000 %	74.680 %
							4.	6.	5.	5.	3.
5.	11	Unee BB	Bredow-Werndl, Jessica von	GER		900.00 EUR	375.5	379.5	356.5	374.0	375.5	1861.0 points
	bay 13y.S /Gribaldi/Dageraad/KWPN/102YN67/ Bürchler-Keller Beatrice						75.100 %	75.900 %	71.300 %	74.800 %	75.100 %	74.440 %
							5.	4.	7.	4.	5.
6.	19	Santana	Telde, Minna	SWE		800.00 EUR	371.5	366.0	361.0	353.5	374.0	1826.0 points
	black 13y.S /Sandro Hit/Rubinstein I/HANN/SWE40105/ Minna Telde Ab / Berit Telde						74.300 %	73.200 %	72.200 %	70.700 %	74.800 %	73.040 %
							7.	7.	5.	10.	6.
7.	13	Silvano	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		700.00 EUR	374.5	359.5	361.5	364.0	361.0	1820.5 points
	bay 15y.S /Rubinstein/Cocktail/KWPN/SWE04848/ Gestüt Peterhof						74.900 %	71.900 %	72.300 %	72.800 %	72.200 %	72.820 %
							6.	8.	4.	7.	8.
8.	2	Jojo AZ	Kirk Thinggaard, Agnete	DEN		600.00 EUR	366.0	354.0	350.5	367.0	362.0	1799.5 points
	bay 11y.G /Ginus/Justboy/103KA01/ Julianelyst Aps						73.200 %	70.800 %	70.100 %	73.400 %	72.400 %	71.980 %
							8.	11.	8.	6.	7.
Other, non-placed competitors
9.	4	Painted Black	Barbançon Mestre, Morgan	ESP			363.0	368.5	348.0	361.5	356.0	1797.0 points
	black 17y.S /Gribaldi/Ferro/KWPN/NED06402/ Morgan Barbancon Mestre						72.600 %	73.700 %	69.600 %	72.300 %	71.200 %	71.880 %
							9.	5.	10.	8.	11.
10.	12	Favourit	Rothenberger, Sönke	GER			357.5	358.5	350.0	347.5	357.5	1771.0 points
	chest 15y.G /Fidermark/Worldchamp/RHLD/AUT40060/ Rothenberger Im Gestüt Erlenhof						71.500 %	71.700 %	70.000 %	69.500 %	71.500 %	70.840 %
							10.	10.	9.	11.	9.
11.	17	Thriller	Gevers, Katja	NED			340.0	344.5	342.0	354.5	357.0	1738.0 points
	14y.G /Gribaldi/Amor/KWPN/103HL43/ Dhr. R. Grevers						68.000 %	68.900 %	68.400 %	70.900 %	71.400 %	69.520 %
							14.	13.	11.	9.	10.
12.	5	Axis TSF	Stegars, Terhi	FIN			340.0	359.0	340.0	343.0	340.5	1722.5 points
	black 15y.S /Sixtus/Angard/TRAK/GER44244/ Stegars Terhi + Kayser Tanja						68.000 %	71.800 %	68.000 %	68.600 %	68.100 %	68.900 %
							14.	9.	13.	13.	13.
13.	15	Vancouver K	Reynolds, Judy	IRL			350.5	345.0	333.0	343.0	338.0	1709.5 points
	bay 12y.G /Jazz/Ferro/KWPN/IRL40808/ Joe & Kathleen Reynolds						70.100 %	69.000 %	66.600 %	68.600 %	67.600 %	68.380 %
							11.	12.	15.	13.	14.
14.	7	Pasoa	Crisp, Nikki	GBR			347.0	331.5	334.5	344.0	348.5	1705.5 points
	bay 17y.M /Damocles/Hamilton/KWPN/GBR42285/ Miss N Crisp						69.400 %	66.300 %	66.900 %	68.800 %	69.700 %	68.220 %
							12.	15.	14.	12.	12.
15.	3	Michigan	Moelgaard, Ulrik	DEN			344.0	338.0	326.5	336.5	332.5	1677.5 points
	bay 13y.G /Michillino/DWB/102UC82/ Claus Munkedal						68.800 %	67.600 %	65.300 %	67.300 %	66.500 %	67.100 %
							13.	14.	16.	15.	15.
16.	1	Vradin	Missiaen, Simon	BEL			333.0	322.0	342.0	323.5	330.5	1651.0 points
	bay 12y.M /Gribaldi/Michelangelo/KWPN/102YA81/ Missiaen Roland						66.600 %	64.400 %	68.400 %	64.700 %	66.100 %	66.040 %
							16.	16.	11.	16.	16.
17.	6	Weltzin	Biggs, Hannah	GBR			319.0	308.0	318.5	322.5	318.5	1586.5 points
	chest 15y.S /Weltbogen/Werther/HANN/GBR42668/ Hannah Biggs						63.800 %	61.600 %	63.700 %	64.500 %	63.700 %	63.460 %
							17.	18.	17.	17.	18.
18.	10	Fideramber	Watson, Daniel	GBR			319.0	319.5	308.0	317.0	322.5	1586.0 points
	bay 14y.S /Fidermark/Samber/WESTF/GBR41980/ S A Farnon						63.800 %	63.900 %	61.600 %	63.400 %	64.500 %	63.440 %
							17.	17.	18.	18.	17.
19.	14	Sydney	Rawlins, Dane	IRL			311.0	281.5	290.5	294.5	288.0	1465.5 points
	bay 15y.M /Linaro/Calypso II/HOLST/GBR14528/ Dame Pauline Harris & Dane Rawlins						62.200 %	56.300 %	58.100 %	58.900 %	57.600 %	58.620 %
							19.	19.	19.	19.	19.