Dressage-News

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 2, 2017–Isabell Werth on Emilio newly elevated to No. 3 in the world eked out a narrow victory over Denmark’s star Cathrine Dufour and Cassidy in the Saab Top Ten CDI5* Grand Prix Saturday.

Only 0.400 per cent separated Isabell on the 11-year-old Westfalen gelding with a score of 79.700 per cent and Cathrine and her 14-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding on 79.300 per cent.

Isabell on her Olympic team gold medal and world No. 1 Weihegold swept the three gold medals up for grabs at the European Championships in September with Cathrine and her Olympic partner winning team silver and individual and freestyle bronze medals.

Cathrine, 25 years old, and ranked N. 5 in the world on the horse she has grown up with since juniors, turned the tables a month later to take both the Grand Prix and the Freestyle at her home World Cup event. Isabell, on her sixth ranked Don Johnson FRH, was second.

Sweden’s Therese Nilshagen on Dante Weltino OLD placed third on 77.980 per cent in the first leg of the world’s single richest dressage company with total prize money of €158,000 (US$187,000) and a Volkswagen car for the Grand Prix and Freestyle.

Helen Langehanenberg and Damsey FRH, German team mates of Isabell’s at this summer’s Europeans, produced a personal best  77.760 per cent to place fourth. Damsey is a 15-year-old Hanoverian stallion that Helen began competing at Big Tour in April 2016 and stands 10th in the world. The horse is owned by Americans Louise Leatherdale of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minnesota and Susanne Meyer.

Patrik Kittel, the Swedish multi-Olympian and the driving force behind this event, rode Deja, his 2016 Olympic mount, to fifth place on 75.500 per cent.

Results:

Top Ten CDI5* Grand Prix

Rank	Nat.		Rider	H.No	HorseSex / Studbook / Color / Born / Sire x Dam sire / Breeder / Owner	E	H	C	M	B	Total
1	GER		Isabell Werth	44	Emilio 107Gelding / WESTF / Bay / 2006 / Ehrenpreis x Cacir AA / ZG Strunk,Heinrich u.Wilhelm / Winter-Schulze, Madeleine & IW Pferde GmbH, IW Pferde GmbH	80.500  1	80.200   1	81.000   2	76.000   5	80.800   1	79.700
2	DEN		Cathrine Dufour	40	Atterupgaards CassidyGelding / DWB / Chestnut / 2003 / Caprimond x Donnerhall / Atterupgaard, Jystrup Midtsjaelland (den / Dufour Family V/peter Dufour	77.900  2	78.600   3	81.700   1	81.800    1	76.500   4	79.300
3	SWE		Therese Nilshagen	48	Dante Weltino OLDhingst / OLDBG / Black / 2007 / Danone 4 x Welt Hit II / Bahls, Olaf / Dressurpferde Leistungsz + T. Nilshagen	76.400   4	75.900   5	80.800   3	77.200    2	79.600   2	77.980
4	GER		Helen Langehanenberg	43	Damsey FRHhingst / HANN / Bay / 2002 / Dressage Royal x Ritual / Hengsthaltung Kothe / BG Leatherdale Farms	76.000   5	79.400   2	77.700   4	76.400    3	79.300    3	77.760
5	SWE		Patrik Kittel	46	DejaMare / SWB / Bay / 2004 / Silvano x Don Schufro / Marie Harward, Smygehamn (swe) / Marie Harward	77.400   3	76.000   4	74.500   7	75.300    6	74.300    7	75.500
6	SWE		Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	49	Paridon MagiGelding / SWB / Bay / 2003 / Don Primero x Napoleon 625 / Niclas Magnussontomelilla (swe) / Lövsta Stuteri AB	75.500    7	74.500    7	75.600   6	74.300    7	74.700    6	74.920
7	RUS		Inessa Merkulova	45	Mister XGelding / TRAK / Bay / 2004 / Egeus / / Merkulov, Anatoly & Merkulova, Victoria	74.400    8	74.400    8	75.900   5	76.100    4	73.500   8	74.860
8	SWE		Rose Mathisen	47	Zuidenwind 1187hingst / KWPN / Bay / 2004 / OO Seven x Jazz / / Gränsbo Stuteri & VDL Stud	75.900    6	75.300    6	72.700    8	72.600   9	72.300   9	73.760
9	ESP		Severo Jurado Lopez	42	Deep Impact 3Gelding / HANN / Black / 2003 / De Niro x Rubinstein I / / Robert Acs & Aniko Losonczy	73.200   9	73.900    9	72.400   9	73.300    8	75.800    5	73.720
10	DEN		Anna Zibrandtsen	41	Arlandohingst / KWPN / DarkBay / 2005 / Paddox x Mytens XX / A.J. van ‘T Klooster, Eemnes (ned) / Bregnerödgaard APS	71.000   10	71.800   10	71.600   10	68.900   10	70.200   10	70.700