LONDON, Dec. 15, 2015–Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin rode Uthopia to a personal best score to win the Olympia World Cup Grand Prix Tuesday with the stallion’s former rider, Carl Hester on Nip Tuck runner-up.
Charlotte and the 14-year-old KWPN scored 77.460 per cent in the first competition for the pair in 18 months. The previous best for Charlotte and Uthopia, was 76.960 per cent at Windsor, England in May, 2014, the last CDI for the duo before this event.
Carl and Nip Tuck, the 11-year-old KWPN gelding that he rode for Great Britain on silver medal teams at both the 2014 World Games and this year’s European Championships, was awarded 76.660 per cent for second.
Dutch Olympian Hans Peter Minderhoud on Glock’s Flirt was third on 76.120 per cent in the sixth of nine World Cup Western European League events to qualify for the Final in Gothenburg, Sweden Mar. 23-28.
The Freestyle that decides points to qualify for the Final of the annual world championships is scheduled for Wednesday.
Olympia is Charlotte’s first World Cup event for the 2015/16 season. She has taken the title at the last two World Cup Finals on Valegro, her Olympic gold medal mount.
This was also her fifth straight victory in Olympia’s opening night Grand Prix.
“It was quite a risk to come here and you couldn’t do that with many horses,” Charlotte said, “but he has the best temperament in the world and I am over the moon to win.
“It was also nice to bring another horse, take the pressure off Valegro and give another horse a chance.”
Charlotte first took over the ride on Uthopia in 2013 after Carl Hester, her coach and part-owner of the horse, had competed the KWPN stallion for three years.
Carl rode Uthopia on Great Britain’s team that won gold at the 2012 Olympics and the 2011 European Championships, twice notching Grand Prix scores above 80 per cent. He took back the ride for the 2013 Europeans.
Charlotte rode Valegro, also part-owned by Carl, in those championships.
Results:
CDI-W Grand Prix
(E)
(H)
(C)
(M)
(B)
Total
1.
5
Uthopia
Dujardin, Charlotte
GBR
2700.00 GBR
389.5
391.0
385.5
381.5
389.0
1936.5 points
bay 14y.S /Metall/Inspekteur/KWPN/GBR40907/ Mr Carl Hester & Mrs Sasha Stewart
77.900 %
78.200 %
77.100 %
76.300 %
77.800 %
77.460 %
1.
1.
1.
3.
1.
2.
7
Nip Tuck
Hester, Carl
GBR
2000.00 GBR
387.0
385.0
375.0
391.5
378.0
1916.5 points
bay 11y.G /Don Ruto/Animo/KWPN/102UB47/ Mr C Hester, Miss Jane de la Mare
77.400 %
77.000 %
75.000 %
78.300 %
75.600 %
76.660 %
2.
2.
2.
2.
3.
3.
10
Glock’s Flirt
Minderhoud, Hans Peter
NED
1300.00 GBR
380.5
374.0
371.0
394.0
383.5
1903.0 points
chest 14y.S /Florestan/Gauguin de Lully/CH/103DD24/ Ing. Gaston Glock
76.100 %
74.800 %
74.200 %
78.800 %
76.700 %
76.120 %
3.
3.
3.
1.
2.
4.
16
Paridon Magi
Vilhelmson Silfven, Tinne
SWE
1000.00 GBR
366.0
366.5
365.0
368.0
362.5
1828.0 points
bay 12y.G /Don Primero 981/Napoleon 625/SWB/102QX23/ Lövsta Stuteri Ab
73.200 %
73.300 %
73.000 %
73.600 %
72.500 %
73.120 %
5.
5.
4.
4.
5.
5.
8
Jojo Az
Kirk Thinggaard, Agnete
DEN
900.00 GBR
368.5
359.5
355.0
362.5
365.5
1811.0 points
bay 12y.G /Ginus/Justboy/103KA01/ Julianelyst Aps
73.700 %
71.900 %
71.000 %
72.500 %
73.100 %
72.440 %
4.
6.
6.
5.
4.
6.
13
Bonzanjo
van Silfhout, Diederik
NED
800.00 GBR
360.5
368.0
353.5
358.5
355.5
1796.0 points
chest 9y.G /Jazz/Contango/KWPN/104EN90/ De Dalhoeve, Alex En Jannet van Sil
72.100 %
73.600 %
70.700 %
71.700 %
71.100 %
71.840 %
7.
4.
7.
6.
7.
7.
15
Tiamo
Verwimp, Jorinde
BEL
700.00 GBR
358.0
356.0
342.5
351.0
357.5
1765.0 points
bay 15y.S /Lester/Hemmingway/KWPN/103CA97/ Verwimp
71.600 %
71.200 %
68.500 %
70.200 %
71.500 %
70.600 %
8.
7.
11.
10.
6.
8.
6
Rubin Al Asad
Griffith, Lara
GBR
300.00 GBR
353.5
352.0
348.5
352.5
355.0
1761.5 points
bay 13y.G /Rubin Royal/HANN/102VC47/ Dr W & Mrs U Bechtolsheimer
70.700 %
70.400 %
69.700 %
70.500 %
71.000 %
70.460 %
9.
8.
9.
8.
8.
8.
4
Wie-Atlantico de Ymas
Dahl, Anders
DEN
300.00 GBR
366.0
347.5
350.5
347.5
350.0
1761.5 points
chest 16y.G /Wie Weltmeyer/Rondo/HANN/ESP03716/ Mrs P Bigwood & Mr A Dahl
73.200 %
69.500 %
70.100 %
69.500 %
70.000 %
70.460 %
5.
9.
8.
12.
9.
Other, non-placed competitors
10.
14
Annarico
Verliefden, Fanny
BEL
344.0
329.5
358.5
357.5
349.5
1739.0 points
bay 10y.M /Lord Loxley/Havel/KWPN/103VJ44/ Fanny Verliefden
68.800 %
65.900 %
71.700 %
71.500 %
69.900 %
69.560 %
12.
12.
5.
7.
10.
11.
3
Batuta
Carvalho, Goncalo
POR
352.5
336.0
344.5
352.5
347.0
1732.5 points
bay 9y.M /Quixote/Icaro/103CG41/ Ishi – Intern. Sport Horses Investm
70.500 %
67.200 %
68.900 %
70.500 %
69.400 %
69.300 %
10.
10.
10.
8.
11.
12.
9
Don Gregorius
Logutenkova, Inna
UKR
350.0
335.5
336.5
349.5
346.5
1718.0 points
black 13y.S /Don Cardinale/Placido/OLDBG/UKR40057/ Llc Vian – Group
70.000 %
67.100 %
67.300 %
69.900 %
69.300 %
68.720 %
11.
11.
12.
11.
12.
13.
11
Santurion de Massa
Pinto, Daniel
POR
329.0
318.0
321.5
328.5
336.0
1633.0 points
bay 9y.S /Munchhausen/Estoiro/103YD95/ Syndicat Santurion
65.800 %
63.600 %
64.300 %
65.700 %
67.200 %
65.320 %
14.
14.
13.
14.
13.
14.
12
Vancouver K
Reynolds, Judy
IRL
327.0
315.5
318.0
330.0
327.5
1618.0 points
bay 13y.G /Jazz/Ferro/KWPN/IRL40808/ Joe & Kathleen Reynolds
65.400 %
63.100 %
63.600 %
66.000 %
65.500 %
64.720 %
15.
15.
15.
13.
14.
15.
17
Rubins Nite
Watson-Greaves, Hayley
GBR
331.5
314.5
319.0
312.0
325.0
1602.0 points
black 11y.G /Rubin-Royal/Limbo/BHHS/103RB72/ Hayley Watson – Greaves
66.300 %
62.900 %
63.800 %
62.400 %
65.000 %
64.080 %
13.
16.
14.
16.
15.
16.
1
Warlocks Charm
Andersen, Henriette
GBR
310.0
328.5
312.0
322.0
318.5
1591.0 points
chest 12y.G /Jazz/Farrington/KWPN/103LO57/ Henriette Andersen & Jennifer Charl
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