Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

WELLINGTON, Florida, Mar. 11, 2020–Steffen Peters and Suppenkasper led the United States to a slender lead over Canada midway through the Adequan Global Dressage Festival CDIO3* Nations Cup Wednesday with the inaugural event in the 2020 trans-Atlantic series to be decided Thursday.

Canada’s four Grand Prix riders–three scores count in the team competition–were all ahead of their American competitors with only Steffen and the 12-year-old KWPN gelding able to score enough to give the home team the lead–which he did with a score of 75.870%.

The score was the highest individual result with five teams and two individuals competing.

The result put the U.S. on top with a total of the three best scores of 217.131, barely ahead of Canada on 217.109.

Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu on All In, on the 2018 World Games and 2015 Pan American Games teams, posted the highest score of 72.435% for the nation. Lindsay Kellock on Sebastien got the team off to a strong start with a personal best result of 70.500% and one of only four scores above 70%.

Agnete Kirk Thinggaard on Blue Hors Zatchmo, in her first season in Florida, posted a personal best 72.739% to put Denmark into third place on 212.707%.

Japan’s three member team was in fourth on 201.413 and Israel fifth on 197.626. Both teams are competing in their first Nations Cup events in the series that began in 2013 and it was also the first international dressage team event for Israel.

The complicated scoring adds 1.5% bonus to Grand Prix combinations in the event that includes Small Tour to match Pan American Games format.

The Canadian, Japanese and U.S. teams were all Big Tour.

Team results:

Individual results: