Dressage-News

CAPPELN, Germany, Aug. 10, 2018–Isabell Werth rode Bella Rose to victory in the CDI4* Grand Prix Friday, with the highest score of the pair’s three shows since returning from almost four years out of the competition arena.

Isabell and the 14-year-old Westfalen mare were awarded 79.500 per cent–including two marks of 80 per cent–in the campaign to be selected for Germany’s team for the World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina a month’s time.

Bella Rose was 10 years old and placed second individually in the Grand Prix to lead Germany to team gold at the 2010 World Games in Normandy. Three months later, a recurring injury that proved difficult to source and repair kept the mare out of competition until six weeks ago.

Isabell has left no doubt she would prefer to ride  Bella Rose at Tryon as the horse she regards as her best ever in a career that includes 10 Olympic medals, more than any other equestrian in history.

Germany delayed announcing its WEG team after some top prospects, including Sönke Rothenberger on Cosmo and Showtime ridden by Dorothee Schneider were on the injury list after Aachen two weeks ago. The first flights of horses from Europe for Tryon are scheduled in about three weeks to give them time for familiarization before the start of dressage competition Sept. 12.

Lara Butler on Rubin al Asad, named to Great Britain’s short list squad for Tryon, was second on 71.326 per cent.

The Netherlands’ Marlies van Baalen on Ben Johnson was third on 70.609 per cent.

Results:

CDI4* Grand Prix for Freestyle

Placed competitors							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	56	Bella Rose	Werth, Isabell	GER		2100.00 EUR	362.0	372.0	368.0	359.5	367.0	1828.5 points
	chest 14y.M /Belissimo M/Cacir AA/WESTF/103CM31/ Winter-Schulze,Madeleine						78.696 %	80.870 %	80.000 %	78.152 %	79.783 %	79.500 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	4	Rubin al Asad	Butler, Lara	GBR		1600.00 EUR	334.5	323.0	324.5	331.5	327.0	1640.5 points
	bay 16y.G /Rubin Royal Old/Wanderbursch II/HANN/102VC47/ Dr W & Mrs U Bechtolshei						72.717 %	70.217 %	70.543 %	72.065 %	71.087 %	71.326 %
							2.	3.	3.	2.	2.
3.	51	Ben Johnson	van Baalen, Marlies	NED		1100.00 EUR	320.5	328.5	330.0	319.0	326.0	1624.0 points
	bay 12y.G /Johnson/Ferro/KWPN/103XG07/ Dressuurstal van Baalen						69.674 %	71.413 %	71.739 %	69.348 %	70.870 %	70.609 %
							3.	2.	2.	4.	3.
4.	17	Dambacu Nl	Kanerva, Emma	FIN		800.00 EUR	312.0	313.5	314.5	312.5	323.0	1575.5 points
	bay 11y.G /Danone II/Alantas XX/HANN/105WK40/ Gert Saborowski						67.826 %	68.152 %	68.370 %	67.935 %	70.217 %	68.500 %
							5.	4.	4.	5.	4.
5.	15	Euclides Mor	Jimenez Cobo, Juan Antonio	ESP		450.00 EUR	306.5	311.5	309.5	303.0	321.5	1552.0 points
	9y.S /Riopele/104UN73/ Abelardo Morales Puron						66.630 %	67.717 %	67.282 %	65.869 %	69.891 %	67.478 %
							6.	6.	5.	7.	5.
5.	45	Dragao	Schulz, Sascha	LUX		450.00 EUR	306.5	310.5	297.0	323.0	315.0	1552.0 points
	10y.S /Unico/Xaquiro/LUS/103VU23/ Dressage Grand-Ducal						66.630 %	67.500 %	64.565 %	70.217 %	68.478 %	67.478 %
							6.	7.	7.	3.	6.
7.	48	Catch Me	Timmermans, Margo	NED		300.00 EUR	313.5	312.0	300.0	305.5	307.0	1538.0 points
	dbay 11y.G /Dreamcatcher/Goodtimes/KWPN/103OX62/ Mevr. M. Timmermans & Dhr. D. v.						68.153 %	67.827 %	65.218 %	66.413 %	66.740 %	66.870 %
							4.	5.	6.	6.	7.
8.	58	Kavalou	Weston, Peter John	AUS		200.00 EUR	298.5	303.5	287.5	302.0	305.0	1496.5 points
	dchst 11y.M /Shavalou/Exclusiv/TRAK/105WQ48/ Harold Denton						64.891 %	65.978 %	62.500 %	65.652 %	66.304 %	65.065 %
							9.	8.	8.	9.	8.
Other, non-placed competitors
9.	20	Chupa Chup A S	Kitai, Yuko	JPN			300.5	295.0	273.0	303.0	293.5	1465.0 points
	chest 11y.G /Sorento/Fidermark/KWPN/104WZ71/ Masahiro KOSAKA						65.326 %	64.131 %	59.348 %	65.870 %	63.805 %	63.696 %
							8.	9.	11.	7.	9.
10.	25	Roosens Westpoint	Kordatzaki, Jiochanna-Androniki	GRE			280.0	293.0	274.5	286.0	284.0	1417.5 points
	dbay 15y.G /Lancet 2/Forrest XX/KWPN/104NY82/ J.A. Kordatzaki						60.869 %	63.695 %	59.673 %	62.173 %	61.739 %	61.630 %
							10.	10.	9.	10.	11.
11.	5	Don Weltino K	Dittmann, Laurienne	RSA			267.0	281.5	266.0	283.0	290.0	1387.5 points
	chest 12y.G /Don Frederico/Weltmeyer/HANN/104OT84/ Dittmann,Laurienne						58.043 %	61.196 %	57.826 %	61.522 %	63.043 %	60.326 %
							12.	11.	12.	11.	10.
12.	7	Lertevangs Lavinia	Ferreira, Gretha	RSA			278.5	266.0	273.5	277.0	273.5	1368.5 points
	bay 13y.M /Celebration F. Damgaard/Linaro/DWB/102XM90/ Gretha Ferreira-Veldman						60.543 %	57.826 %	59.457 %	60.217 %	59.457 %	59.500 %
							11.	12.	10.	12.	12.