Isabell Werth & Don Johnson Win Fritzens CDI4* Grand Prix for 14th Straight Victory
Isabell Werth & Don Johnson Win Fritzens CDI4* Grand Prix for 14th Straight Victory
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FRITZENS, Austria, July 1, 2017–Isabell Werth and Don Johnson FRH posted their 14th straight victory in winning the CDI4* Grand Prix Saturday with fellow German Fabienne Lütkemeier on D’Agostino runnerup and a trio of Americans and a Canadian filling the next four places.
Isabell and the 16-year-old Hanoverian gelding ranked No. 8 in the world scored 78.540 per cent for the victory to maintain the string of wins going back to last November on her 2013 and 2015 European Championship mount. Isabell is ranked No. 1 in in the world on Weihegold OLD and No. 6 on Emilio.
Fabienne and D’Agostino, a European Young Rider gold medalist and team mates of Isabell at the 2014 World Games and 2013 Europeans, placed second on 73.800 per cent.
P.J. Rizvi of Greenwich, Connecticut and Breaking Dawn were awarded 70.960 per cent for third place. PJ took over the ride on the 16-year-old KWPN gelding in 2014 after Ashley Holzer competed the horse for Canada at the London Olympics, the fourth Games for the rider who three months ago switched to ride for the United States.
Canada’s Brittany Fraser, also coached by Ashley and competing in Europe for the first time, scored 70.100 per cent for fourth place. Brittany and the KWPN gelding, now 12 years old, were on Canada’s 2015 Pan American Games silver medal team at small tour.
Arlene “Tuny” Page of Wellington, Florida and Woodstock were awarded 69.380 per cent for fifth place and the Germany-based Jennifer Hoffmann on Florentinus V sixth on 68.600 per cent.
Results:
CDI4* Grand Prix for Freestyle
(E)
(H)
(C)
(M)
(B)
Total
1.
63
Don Johnson FRH
Werth, Isabell
GER
€2200
397.5
385.5
392.0
386.5
402.0
1963.5 points
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