Kristy Oatley & Du Soleil Add to Aussie World Games Team Pre-Selection Results

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Kristy Oatley and Du Soleil. File photo. © 2017 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

HERNING, Denmark, Mar. 9, 2018–Kristy Oatley and her Olympic mount Du Soleil on Friday added to the combination’s pre-selection results required for a place on the Australian team for the World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina in September.

Kristy and the 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding scored 69.261 per cent for fifth place in the CDI3* Grand Prix, the first combination to log three results meeting the minimum score requirement to go on to designated selection events for Australia, though only two results of at least 69 per cent are necessary.

The Germany-based rider had earlier posted two qualifying scores–70.239 per cent at the World Cup Grand Prix in Neumünster, Germany Feb. 17, 2018 and 69.520 per cent at the World Cup Grand Prix at this same venue Oct. 21, 2017.

Equestrian Australia requires combinations to compete in at least three pre-selection events–one in 2018–and achieve a minimum of two so-called threshhold scores of 69 per cent by April 30 in Australia and Europe and a month earlier in North America.

The standings so far:

Kristy Oatley/Du Soleil
CDI3* Herning, Denmark Mar. 9, 2018 – Grand Prix 69.261%
CDI-W Neumünster, Germany Feb. 17, 2018 – Grand Prix 70.239% 
CDI-W Herning, Denmark Oct. 21, 2017 – Grand Prix 69.520%

 

Brett Parbery/DP Weltmieser
CDI-W Boneo, Australia Jan. 27, 2018 – Grand Prix 70.696%
CDI-W Boneo, Australia Oct. 20, 2017 – Grand Prix 69.060%

Mary Hanna/Boogie Woogie
CDI-W Werribee, Australia Dec. 8, 2017 – Grand Prix 70.260%
CDI3* Deauville, France July 21-23 – Grand Prix 69.520%

Mary Hanna/Calanta
CDI3* Deauville, France July 21-23 – Grand Prix 72.020%

Suzanne Hearn/Remmington
CDI3* Brisbane, Australia July 12-15 – Grand Prix 70.580%

Simone Pearce/Wladimir O.A.
CDI4* Darmstadt, Germany Sept. 21-24 – Grand Prix 70.300%

Alexis Hellyer/Bluefields Floreno
CDI3* Bawley Point, Australia Feb. 23, 2018 – Grand Prix 69.761%

Judy Dierks/Diamond Star
CDI-W Boneo, Australia Oct. 20, 2017 – Grand Prix 69.300%

Briana Burgess/Sissi
CDI3* Nice, France Mar. 2, 2018 – Grand Prix 69.261%

Hayley Beresford/Rebana W
CDI3* Lamprechtshausen, Austria Sept. 3 – Grand Prix 69.160%

Shannan Goodwin/Aristede
CDI3* Brisbane, Australia July 12-15 – Grand Prix 69.160%