Dressage-News

WELLINGTON, Florida, Feb. 19, 2024–Four nations–Canada, Germany, Sweden and USA–line up this week for the CDIO3* Nations Cup that will be at Grand Prix level only for the first time in America. The format of mixed Big and Small Tour combinations that applied since the first Nations Cup in Wellington in 2014 has been dropped.

And the competition has been simplified so the team with three of four scores providing the highest total in the Grand Prix wins gold, second silver and third bronze instead of a mix of results from different levels that drained interest.

Germany will be looking to maintain its record of consecutive victories in the last three annual events at Wellington. The circuit moves to Europe after the USA leg.

The countries with teams scheduled to start in the Grand Prix Thursday are:

CANADA
Mathilde Blais Tetreault/Fedor, 14-year-old KWPN gelding
Denielle Gallagher/Come Back de Massa, 12-year-old Lusitano gelding
Rakeya Moussa/Davidoff V.h. Trichelhof, 16-year-old KWPN gelding

GERMANY
Anna-Christina Abbelen/Sam Donnerhall, 17-year-old Oldenburg gelding
Felicitas Hendricks/Drombusch OLD, 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding
Michael Klimke/Domino, 12-year-old Westfalen mare
Frederic Wandres/Total Recall, 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding

SWEDEN
Caroline Darcourt/Lord Django, 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding
Christina Devine/Slaebaekgaard’s Santino, 15-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding
Karin Persson/Giuliano B, 13-year-old KWPN gelding
Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén/Devanto, 15-year-old Holsteiner gelding

USA
Jan Ebeling/Jubi’s Tenacity, 14-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding
Kevin Kohmann/Duenensee, 15-year-old Hanoverian gelding
Erin Nichols/Elian Royale, 15-year-old KWPN gelding
Jennifer Williams/Joppe K, 10-year-old KWPN gelding

INDIVIDUAL

AUSTRALIA
Kate Kyros/Chemistry, 12-year-old KWPN stallion