Portugal Takes Lead in Nations Cup Series Finale at Hickstead Despite Lara Butler & Rubin al Asad Winning Grand Prix
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HICKSTEAD, England, July 26, 2019–Lara Butler on Rubin al Asad won the CDIO3* Nations Cup Grand Prix Friday but it was not enough to prevent Portugal from taking the lead in the finale of the trans-Atlantic series in only their second team competition in seven years of the series. The event will be decided by the Grand Prix Special and the Freestyle.
Lara and the 17-year-old Hanoverian gelding scored 73.761%, their best Grand Prix result in almost two years.
However, personal best scores for Portugal’s João Miguel Torrao on Equador in second on 73.522% and Rodrigo Torres on Fogoso in third on 72.739% as well as Duarte Nogueira in seventh on 70.239% put them in the lead with 12 points based on placings of the top three from each country.
Hailey Watson-Greaves on Rubins Nite placed fifth on 71.174% and Sara Gallop on Bandero were ninth on 68.500% that gave Great Britain a total of 15 points.
Portugal competed in this same event a year ago, the country’s first Nations Cup in the seven years of the series.
The Netherlands were lying third on 23 points with Ireland fourth on 30 points.
The series champion is Sweden for the third year in a row based on points accumulated in its best four competitions in the lineup of eight events that began in Wellington, Florida in March before moving across the Atlantic to Europe.
Unless Great Britain can pull off a win here at home, the top three nations for 2019 are Sweden first, Germany second and the United States third.
Louise Bell and the British-bred Into the Blue posted their first ever CDI victory when the British team pair won the CDI3* Grand Prix Friday.
Louise and the 13-year-old Anglo-European gelding scored 70.304% for the win a week after competing on Great Britain’s Nations Cup team at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany.
Laura Tomlinson on Duval’s Capri Sonne Jr. was second on 70.152% with Vicky Thompson Winfield on Mango Jacaro third on 68.891%.
Results:
CDIO3* Nations Cup Grand Prix
Judges-E: JEAN MICHEL ROUDIER H: STEPHEN CLARKE C: CHRISTOF UMBACH M: TIINA KAKKOLAINEN B: PETER HOLLER
| Percentage (Rank) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | No | Rider | Horse | E | H | C | M | B | Total | |
| 1 | 55 | LARA BUTLER GBRFEI ID 10015853 | RUBIN AL ASAD HANNFEI ID 102VC47 |  | 75.217% (1) | 74.239% (2) | 75.435% (1) | 72.174% (2) | 71.739% (4) | 73.761% |
| 2 | 67 | JOAO MIGUEL TORRAO PORFEI ID 10125907 | EQUADOR LUSITFEI ID 104YR24 |  | 74.348% (2) | 72.935% (4) | 74.783% (2) | 73.152% (1) | 72.391% (2) | 73.522% |
| 3 | 68 | RODRIGO TORRES PORFEI ID 10017044 | FOGOSO LUSITFEI ID 105NX97 | | 72.500% (4) | 74.348% (1) | 73.913% (3) | 69.239% (6) | 73.696% (1) | 72.739% |
| 4 | 63 | LUCIE LOUWS NEDFEI ID 10165581 | EVITO KWPNFEI ID 105XE43 |  | 72.609% (3) | 71.848% (5) | 72.826% (4) | 70.761% (3) | 71.957% (3) | 72.000% |
| 5 | 58 | HAYLEY WATSON-GREAVES GBRFEI ID 10088848 | RUBINS NITE BHHSFEI ID 103RB72 | | 68.587% (10) | 73.370% (3) | 71.413% (7) | 70.761% (3) | 71.739% (4) | 71.174% |
| 6 | 64 | LYNNE MAAS NEDFEI ID 10060660 | ELECTRA KWPNFEI ID 105HI39 | | 70.978% (6) | 70.761% (6) | 71.630% (6) | 69.891% (5) | 69.239% (7) | 70.500% |
| 7 | 138 | DUARTE NOGUEIRA PORFEI ID 10026372 | BEIRAO LUSITFEI ID 104RC83 | | 70.109% (7) | 70.217% (7) | 72.283% (5) | 67.500% (8) | 71.087% (6) | 70.239% |
| 8 | 60 | KATE DWYER IRLFEI ID 10010681 | SNOWDON FABERGE FEI ID 104FJ10 |  | 69.457% (8) | 69.674% (8) | 70.435% (8) | 66.087% (12) | 68.804% (9) | 68.891% |
| 9 | 48 | SARA GALLOP GBRFEI ID 10099115 | BANDERO KWPNFEI ID 104QR58 | | 71.630% (5) | 68.043% (10) | 69.022% (9) | 68.587% (7) | 65.217% (15) | 68.500% |
| 10 | 128 | JAMES CONNOR IRLFEI ID 10000013 | CASINO ROYAL OLDBGFEI ID 104AZ51 | | 66.522% (11) | 69.239% (9) | 68.261% (10) | 65.870% (13) | 69.022% (8) | 67.783% |
| 11 | 66 | MIGUEL RALAO DUARTE PORFEI ID 10014853 | XENOFONTE D’ATELA LUSITFEI ID 104PV85 | | 68.804% (9) | 67.500% (12) | 67.500% (12) | 67.065% (11) | 65.435% (14) | 67.261% |
| 12 | 61 | DANE RAWLINS IRLFEI ID 10023774 | ESPOIRE WESTFFEI ID 104VF13 | | 65.326% (13) | 65.652% (13) | 68.152% (11) | 67.500% (8) | 66.304% (12) | 66.587% |
| 13 | 65 | SASKIA MAERTENS NEDFEI ID 10119171 | LEGEND OF LOXLEY WESTFFEI ID 104UB94 | | 66.304% (12) | 65.000% (15) | 66.522% (13) | 67.283% (10) | 67.609% (10) | 66.543% |
| 14 | 56 | EMILE FAURIE GBRFEI ID 10011350 | CAFE’S CALETTA OLDENFEI ID 106IG19 | | 62.500% (14) | 67.609% (11) | 66.522% (13) | 65.652% (14) | 66.087% (13) | 65.674% |
| 15 | 62 | STEPHANIE DE FREL NEDFEI ID 10023825 | CALRIETA H KWPNFEI ID 103LG62 | | 62.500% (14) | 65.109% (14) | 65.000% (15) | 64.891% (15) | 66.630% (11) | 64.826% |
| 16 | 59 | BELINDA BERETON IRLFEI ID 10148066 | CAPTAIN NEGRO C KWPNFEI ID 105ML15 | | 59.348% (16) | 56.087% (16) | 61.522% (16) | 63.370% (16) | 58.913% (16) | 59.848% |
CDI3* Grand Prix
Judges-E: CHRISTOF UMBACH H: PETER HOLLER C: STEPHEN CLARKE M: JEAN MICHEL ROUDIER B: TIINA KAKKOLAINEN
| Rank | No | Rider | Horse | E | H | C | M | B | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 43 | LOUISE ANNE BELL GBR | INTO THE BLUE AES | | 71.739% (1) | 69.891% (2) | 72.500% (1) | 68.478% (5) | 68.913% (4) | 70.304% |
| 2 | 53 | LAURA TOMLINSON GBR | DUVAL’S CAPRI SONNE JR KWPN | | 69.891% (4) | 69.457% (4) | 70.109% (4) | 72.065% (1) | 69.239% (3) | 70.152% |
| 3 | 52 | VICKY THOMPSON WINFIELD GBR | MANGO JACARO ANCCE | | 68.043% (6) | 68.478% (7) | 68.261% (9) | 68.587% (4) | 71.087% (1) | 68.891% |
| 4 | 41 | MIKAELA SORATIE FIN | DACOR HANN |  | 70.000% (3) | 66.087% (11) | 70.326% (3) | 69.239% (3) | 68.587% (6) | 68.848% |
| 5 | 44 | LARA BUTLER GBR | KRISTJAN OLDBG | | 68.043% (6) | 71.304% (1) | 70.109% (4) | 68.152% (6) | 65.326% (14) | 68.587% |
| 6 | 125 | MIGUEL RALAO DUARTE POR | DISTURBIO LUSIT | | 67.826% (9) | 69.348% (5) | 69.348% (7) | 69.565% (2) | 66.630% (9) | 68.543% |
| 7 | 137 | EMILE FAURIE GBR | QUENTANO 2 HANN | | 70.217% (2) | 64.022% (17) | 70.761% (2) | 67.174% (8) | 69.565% (2) | 68.348% |
| 8 | 38 | ULRIK MOELGAARD DEN | MICHIGAN DWB |  | 67.065% (12) | 68.804% (6) | 69.783% (6) | 68.152% (6) | 67.391% (7) | 68.239% |
| 9 | 140 | VICKY THOMPSON WINFIELD GBR | ARTIST DWB | | 67.283% (11) | 69.891% (2) | 68.152% (10) | 66.413% (11) | 66.630% (9) | 67.674% |
| =10 | 37 | WARWICK MCLEAN AUS | SIR HEINRICH M WESTF |  | 68.913% (5) | 65.978% (12) | 66.087% (12) | 66.957% (9) | 68.696% (5) | 67.326% |
| =10 | 122 | DANIEL GREENWOOD GBR | CHEVALIER O KWPN | | 67.935% (8) | 65.870% (13) | 68.913% (8) | 66.522% (10) | 67.391% (7) | 67.326% |
| 12 | 123 | KEITH ROBERTSON GBR | BOHEME AF SULSTED DWB | | 67.717% (10) | 66.196% (10) | 65.978% (13) | 64.348% (15) | 66.522% (11) | 66.152% |
| 13 | 118 | ELIZABETH DIEGUTIS GBR | SASKIA HIT OLDBG | | 66.413% (13) | 64.130% (15) | 65.870% (14) | 64.674% (13) | 66.196% (12) | 65.457% |
| 14 | 117 | WILLOW KEMP GBR | DRAGON HEART WBFSH | | 64.565% (14) | 65.435% (14) | 66.522% (11) | 64.565% (14) | 64.348% (15) | 65.087% |
| 15 | 134 | MOJCA USNIK SLO | LIBERTINO WESTF |  | 62.826% (15) | 64.130% (15) | 65.217% (15) | 64.783% (12) | 65.978% (13) | 64.587% |
| 16 | 127 | PAVLA RUBICKOVA CZE | XANGAI LUSIT |  | 62.065% (16) | 67.065% (8) | 64.457% (16) | 62.065% (17) | 62.826% (16) | 63.696% |
| 17 | 136 | STEPHANIE DE FREL NED | BEACH BOY KWPN | | 61.087% (17) | 66.630% (9) | 64.022% (17) | 63.043% (16) | 61.196% (17) | 63.196% |
| (W/D) | 47 | MARIA EILBERG GBR | ROYAL CONCERT OLDBG | | ||||||
