Dressage-News

SALZBURG, Austria, Dec. 9, 2018–Benjamin Werndl rode Daily Mirror to a personal best score to capture the World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle Sunday to move into a tie with fellow German Dorothee Schneider atop the Western European League rankings for an invitation to the championship final next April.

Benjamin and the 14-year-old Westfalen gelding scored 80.790 per cent for the victory to eclipse their previous best of 80.340 per cent set last month. The pair also posted a personal best in the Grand Prix Saturday.

“This horse is a gift,” he said. “I’m having an unbelievable trip with him, he’s developed so much over the last few months and I can’t find the right words to describe how much it means to me.”

There was so much more potential in Daily Mirror, he said, “and now my job is to find out how to bring it out. He had a break of two years before he came to us a couple of years ago, so he still feels a bit like a young horse building up experience, and I really wasn’t expecting him to be so cool in this arena today–he’s just the perfect gentleman.”

Benjamin and his sister, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, both were undefeated at different shows this week–Benjamin on Daily Mirror here in the fifth World Cup event of the 2018/19 season and Jessica on TSF Dalera BB at the CDI5* in Geneva. As Young Riders in 2004, the two took silver at the European Championships.

Sweden’s Patrik Kittel riding Delatio in only the second show for the pair placed second on 80.010 per cent to move up to fifth in the Western European standings as the veteran of three Olympics and three World Equestrian Games pursues a start at the final in Gothenburg, Sweden in April that would be his seventh World Cup start. The only other competition for Patrik and Delatio, 14-year-old Hanoverian stallion, was the World Cup event in Lyon, France.

Dorothee Schneider and Faustus, competing in only their second freestyle since starting Big Tour nine months ago, also logged a personal best of 79.730 per cent.

Kristy Oatley and Du Soleil placed fourth on 79.330 per cent, an Australian record freestyle score, and beating their previous recordbeating result of 78.130 per cent in October.

The next Western European World Cup event is scheduled for London Olympia Dec. 17-18.

Results:

CDI-W Grand Prix Freestyle

Placed competitors
1.	005	Daily Mirror	Benjamin Werndl	GER		13.750,00 EUR	77.250 %	77.000 %	75.500 %	73.500 %	77.250 %	80.790 %
	black / 14y. / G / WESTF / Damon Hill / Florestan I / 105LM91 / Keller, Flora						85.200 %	85.600 %	87.200 %	84.000 %	85.400 %
							81.225 % (2)	81.300 % (1)	81.350 % (1)	78.750 % (3)	81.325 % (1)
2.	012	Delatio	Patrik Kittel	SWE		10.000,00 EUR	77.000 %	75.750 %	74.750 %	74.000 %	75.000 %	80.010 %
	bay / 14y. / S / HANN / De Niro 6 / Rubinstein I / 105GE82 / Knyaginicheva, Elena						84.600 %	84.400 %	84.200 %	84.000 %	86.400 %
							80.800 % (3)	80.075 % (2)	79.475 % (3)	79.000 % (2)	80.700 % (2)
3.	006	Faustus	Dorothee Schneider	GER		7.500,00 EUR	77.000 %	75.500 %	73.000 %	71.250 %	72.750 %	79.730 %
	dbay / 10y. / G / HANN / Falsterbo 11 / Forrest xx / 105GT42 / Gestüt Fohlenhof / Inh.Prof.Dr.Bern						88.800 %	84.200 %	87.600 %	84.200 %	83.000 %
							82.900 % (1)	79.850 % (3)	80.300 % (2)	77.725 % (5)	77.875 % (5)
4.	001	Du Soleil	Kristy Oatley	AUS		5.625,00 EUR	75.500 %	72.500 %	72.500 %	74.500 %	74.500 %	79.330 %
	chest / 14y. / G / HANN / De Niro 6 / Caprimond / 102ZI76 / Oatley, Rosalind & Robert						84.600 %	82.400 %	84.600 %	86.600 %	85.600 %
							80.050 % (5)	77.450 % (6)	78.550 % (5)	80.550 % (1)	80.050 % (3)
5.	007	Fabregaz	Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier	GER		3.125,00 EUR	75.000 %	74.750 %	72.250 %	72.500 %	73.500 %	79.300 %
	dbay / 11y. / G / DSP / Florestano / Ragazzo / 105AV80 / Capellmann-Lütkemeier, Gina						86.200 %	83.600 %	85.600 %	84.600 %	85.000 %
							80.600 % (4)	79.175 % (4)	78.925 % (4)	78.550 % (4)	79.250 % (4)
6.	013	Brother de Jeu	Antonia Ramel	SWE		2.500,00 EUR	74.000 %	74.500 %	70.750 %	72.250 %	72.000 %	77.230 %
	black / 12y. / G / KWPN / Voice / Jazz / 105EH24 / La Pomme HB						83.400 %	81.800 %	79.600 %	82.800 %	81.200 %
							78.700 % (6)	78.150 % (5)	75.175 % (7)	77.525 % (6)	76.600 % (7)
7.	004	Sir Donnerhall II Old	Morgan Barbancon Mestre	FRA		1.875,00 EUR	71.500 %	70.000 %	72.000 %	69.500 %	71.000 %	76.240 %
	dbay / 12y. / S / OLDBG / Sandro Hit / Donnerhall 11 / 103RO36 / Nyreroed, Henrik & Kloy, Sabine						81.400 %	81.600 %	83.000 %	79.200 %	83.200 %
							76.450 % (7)	75.800 % (7)	77.500 % (6)	74.350 % (8)	77.100 % (6)
8.	008	Hexagon’s Double Dutch	Thamar Zweistra	NED		1.250,00 EUR	70.000 %	69.750 %	67.250 %	71.000 %	69.250 %	74.565 %
	chest / 10y. / S / KWPN / Johnson Tn / Rubiquil / 105DU48 / Stal Hexagon & L.F.L.v. Lieren						77.800 %	79.200 %	79.600 %	81.200 %	80.600 %
							73.900 % (8)	74.475 % (8)	73.425 % (8)	76.100 % (7)	74.925 % (8)
9.	009	Asther de Jeu	Tosca Visser van der Meulen	NED		625,00 EUR	68.750 %	70.250 %	68.500 %	69.000 %	67.500 %	72.820 %
	dbay / 13y. / M / KWPN / Contango / Jazz / 103UY76 / A.F.M. Visser- v.d. Meulen						76.800 %	78.200 %	77.200 %	75.000 %	77.000 %
							72.775 % (9)	74.225 % (9)	72.850 % (9)	72.000 % (10)	72.250 % (9)
10.	003	Chico	Timna Zach	AUT		625,00 EUR	68.500 %	68.750 %	67.500 %	66.750 %	68.750 %	72.065 %
	chest / 11y. / G / KWPN / Johnson / Pretendent / 104TB41 / Hans-Jörg Gasser						75.000 %	76.200 %	77.600 %	76.600 %	75.000 %
							71.750 % (10)	72.475 % (10)	72.550 % (10)	71.675 % (11)	71.875 % (10)
11.	014	Roberto des Frettes	Charlotte Haid Bondergaard	SWE		625,00 EUR	67.500 %	66.250 %	67.000 %	69.000 %	68.000 %	72.015 %
	bay / 13y. / G / Carinho des Noes / Boulou des Frettes / 103VX18 / Björn Haid, Mathias Haid & Norrehe						75.000 %	75.800 %	77.400 %	79.400 %	74.800 %
							71.250 % (11)	71.025 % (12)	72.200 % (11)	74.200 % (9)	71.400 % (11)
12.	010	Catch me	Margo Timmermans	NED		625,00 EUR	67.500 %	68.000 %	66.000 %	66.750 %	67.500 %	70.655 %
	dbay / 11y. / G / KWPN / Dreamcatcher / Goodtimes / 103OX62 / Mevr. M. Timmermans & Dhr. D. v. Kr						73.200 %	73.800 %	73.800 %	75.800 %	74.200 %
							70.350 % (12)	70.900 % (13)	69.900 % (14)	71.275 % (12)	70.850 % (13)
13.	011	Dzeko	Katarzyna Milczarek	POL		625,00 EUR	66.500 %	69.250 %	66.500 %	66.000 %	67.750 %	70.500 %
	chest / 12y. / S / OLDBG / Dimaggio / Continue / 103JX25 / Katarzyna Milczarek						73.800 %	73.400 %	74.600 %	72.400 %	74.800 %
							70.150 % (13)	71.325 % (11)	70.550 % (12)	69.200 % (13)	71.275 % (12)
14.	002	Sinclair Jason	Christian Schumach	AUT		625,00 EUR	65.500 %	66.000 %	66.750 %	64.500 %	67.750 %	69.230 %
	bay / 10y. / S / OLDBG / San Amour / Lord Sinclair / 105FI78 / Petra Lisec						72.400 %	71.000 %	73.200 %	72.200 %	73.000 %
							68.950 % (14)	68.500 % (14)	69.975 % (13)	68.350 % (14)	70.375 % (14)
15.	015	Wera la Sol	Sylvia Gugler	USA		625,00 EUR	58.250 %	60.500 %	59.250 %	58.250 %	58.250 %	63.050 %
	chest / 14y. / M / HANN / Weltmeyer / Lauries Crusador xx / 103VD26 / Gugler Sport Horses GmbH & Co.KG						66.400 %	66.600 %	68.600 %	67.000 %	67.400 %
							62.325 % (15)	63.550 % (15)	63.925 % (15)	62.625 % (15)	62.825 % (15)