Dressage-News

ACHLEITEN, Austria, June 5, 2015–Steffen Peters on Rosamunde, competing in their final show of the Pan American Games squad European tour, won the CDI4* Grand Prix Friday, in their ninth start since the eight-year-old mare began her international Big Tour career four months ago.

Steffen and the Rhinelander mare owned by Akiko Yamazaki as is Legolas his other Grand Prix mount, scored 74.560 per cent with all five judges placing the American pair first over Victoria Max-Theurer on Eichendorff on 73.560 per cent. Vici’s family organizers the competition at their picturesque estate.

Switzerland’s Marcel Krinke Susmelj on Smeyers Molberg was third on 71.740 per cent while the USA’s Kasey Perry of Orangevale, California on Trøstruplund’s Scarlet was fourth on 70.800 per cent and Kathleen Raine of Murieta, California on Breanna fifth on 68.880 per cent.

Since beginning their international Grand Prix career at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida in February, Steffen of San Diego, California and Rosamunde won five of their six starts on both coasts of the United States.

The duo placed second in two competitions at Munich’s Pferd International three weeks ago which kicked off the European swing of eight horses contending for a place on the American team for the Pan Ams in Toronto in just over a month.

Steffen told dressage-news.com he expects Legolas with the gelding’s higher scores to be selected as one of the two Grand Prix horses for the continental championship that will determine a single team starting place at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The other combination will be Laura Graves of Geneva, Florida on her Verdades who was excused from the European tour so she could train intensively with Debbie McDonald in Hailey, Idaho after a successful World Cup Final debut in Las Vegas in April.

However, Rosamunde could be picked as a reserve.

The Pan Ams provide for a unique format of mixed Big and Small Tour teams==to qualify for the Olympics a team must include a Grand Prix combination but many nations in Central and South America do not have enough if any Grand Prix pairs but want to participate in the major championship for the Americas.

The Small Tour pairs will compete in the Prix St. Georges Saturday and Intermediate 1 Sunday.

Results:

CDI4* Grand Prix, qualifier for Freestyle							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	43	Rosamunde	Peters, Steffen	USA		1000.00 EUR	378.0	375.0	372.5	368.5	370.0	1864.0 points
	bay 8y.M /Rock Forever/Fidermark/RHEIN/103MZ45/ Four Winds Farm						75.600 %	75.000 %	74.500 %	73.700 %	74.000 %	74.560 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	6	Eichendorff	Max-Theurer, Victoria	AUT		750.00 EUR	361.0	371.5	368.5	368.0	370.0	1839.0 points
	bay 17y.S /Ehrentusch/Ferragamo/WESTF/AUT04389/ Elisabeth Max-Theurer & Sponsorkr						72.200 %	74.300 %	73.700 %	73.600 %	74.000 %	73.560 %
							2.	2.	2.	2.	1.
3.	36	Smeyers Molberg	Krinke Susmelj, Marcela	SUI		600.00 EUR	355.0	363.5	361.0	351.5	362.5	1793.5 points
	bay 14y.G /Michellino/Rambo/DWB/DEN40115/ Meyer Irene + Krinke Susmelj Marcel						71.000 %	72.700 %	72.200 %	70.300 %	72.500 %	71.740 %
							3.	3.	3.	4.	3.
4.	42	Trøstruplund’s Scarlet	Perry, Kasey	USA		500.00 EUR	348.5	357.0	356.0	353.0	355.5	1770.0 points
	chest 16y.M /Blue Hors Don Schufro/Blue Hors Romancier/DWB/DEN40795/ Diane Perry						69.700 %	71.400 %	71.200 %	70.600 %	71.100 %	70.800 %
							5.	4.	4.	3.	4.
5.	44	Breanna	Raine, Kathleen	USA		400.00 EUR	350.0	332.5	347.0	350.0	342.5	1722.0 points
	bay 15y.M /Brentano II/Weltmeyer/HANN/USA42245/ Kathleen Raine/jennifer Mason/dav						70.000 %	66.500 %	69.400 %	70.000 %	68.500 %	68.880 %
							4.	6.	6.	5.	6.
6.	35	Mystery	Skowronska, Zaneta	POL		250.00 EUR	347.5	337.5	348.5	335.0	351.5	1720.0 points
	chest 12y.M /Margue H/Delano/HANN/103ZB82/ Andrzej Salacki						69.500 %	67.500 %	69.700 %	67.000 %	70.300 %	68.800 %
							6.	5.	5.	6.	5.
7.	27	Rubin Noir	Wagner, Ursula	GER		250.00 EUR	326.0	327.0	346.5	331.0	327.0	1657.5 points
	black 12y.G /Ricardos/Rheinblick/RHEIN/104PV33/ Lambert,Marc						65.200 %	65.400 %	69.300 %	66.200 %	65.400 %	66.300 %
							9.	9.	7.	7.	7.
8.	16	Quantico	Zach, Timna	AUT		250.00 EUR	327.5	328.5	328.0	317.5	327.0	1628.5 points
	chest 16y.G /Quattro B/World Cup I/OLDBG/GER43129/ Zach Ausbildungsstall GmbH						65.500 %	65.700 %	65.600 %	63.500 %	65.400 %	65.140 %
							7.	7.	9.	10.	7.
Other, non-placed competitors
9.	31	Catch Me	Timmermans, Margo	NED			326.5	327.5	332.5	318.5	312.5	1617.5 points
	dbay 8y.G /Dreamcatcher/Goodtimes/KWPN/103OX62/ Mevr. M. Timmermans & Dhr. D. v.						65.300 %	65.500 %	66.500 %	63.700 %	62.500 %	64.700 %
							8.	8.	8.	9.	9.
10.	20	Trevis	Sigismondi, Fabrizio	CZE			321.5	318.5	327.0	324.0	298.0	1589.0 points
	dbay 10y.S /Topas-8/Fleming s.v./104CH37/ Pospisil Josef						64.300 %	63.700 %	65.400 %	64.800 %	59.600 %	63.560 %
							10.	11.	11.	8.	12.
11.	4	Wolkenritter	Hartung, Amanda	AUT			310.5	320.0	327.5	315.5	309.5	1583.0 points
	chest 13y.S /Wolkentanz/Hitchcock/HANN/103HD27/ Amanda Hartung						62.100 %	64.000 %	65.500 %	63.100 %	61.900 %	63.320 %
							11.	10.	10.	11.	11.
12.	13	Amüsant OLD	Wünschek, Katharina	AUT			309.0	313.5	317.5	309.5	310.5	1560.0 points
	chest 17y.G /Alabaster/Absatz/OLDBG/GER43704/ Elisabeth Max-Theurer & Sponsorkrei						61.800 %	62.700 %	63.500 %	61.900 %	62.100 %	62.400 %
							12.	12.	12.	12.	10.