Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 11, 2022–Charlotte Jorst and Kastel’s Nintendo won the Wellington World Cup Freestyle Friday while Spain’s Juan Matute Guimon on Quantico was runner-up to justify the trans-Atlantic journey that bumped him into third place on the Western European rankings for a start in the Final in April.

Charlotte of Reno, Nevada and the KWPN stallion scored 79.075%, slightly below the previous best and followed the pair’s victory in the Grand Prix. Although the duo earned the maximum of 20 points with only one more qualifier in North America they would not fulfill the requirement of three scores to get an invitation to the Final in Leipzig, Germany in April.

The opposite was the case for Juan Matute Guimon whose score of 78.050% put them in second place to the cheering of what for him was a home crowd as he grew up in Wellington and his family is still based here. The result gave the pair 42 points to rank third in Western Europe behind Frederic Wandres of Germany who is also in Wellington for the winter circuit and Thamar Zweistra of the Netherlands. However, two qualifiers remain on the calendar for Western Europe–Neumünster in Germany next week and ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands next month that Juan indicated he might compete.

Anna Buffini of San Diego and FRH Davinia la Douce were third on 77.605% and move the pair to within striking distance of an invitation to the Final.

Ashley Holzer of Wellington on Havanna  has clinched one of the two starting places reserved for North America in the Final, with Codi Harrison in second place. Anna, however, could contend for the second place with a high placing at the final qualifier.

Results:

CDI-W World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle