Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

WELLINGTON, Florida, Mar. 30, 2024–Olympic silver medalist Adrienne Lyle rode Lars van de Hoenderhelde to victory Saturday in the first CDI Grand Prix Special for the new partnership with Endel Ots on Zen Elite’s Bohemian runner-up to put the two horse and rider combinations into the top qualifiers to go to Europe to seek a start on the United States team at the Paris Games.

Adrienne and the 13-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding were awarded 73.192% for the CDI3* Special win two days after placing second to Endel and Bohemian in the Grand Prix.

Endel, like Adrienne based in Wellington, and the 14-year-old Westfalen gelding were awarded 72.490% in the Special. He has had the horse for about the same period of time as Adrienne has been partnered with Lars and a third Grand Prix mount, Helix that were bought by Heidi Humphries, a successful business owner in nearby Ft. Lauderdale.

Bohemian was competed by Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour for Denmark at the Tokyo Olympics and the 2021 European Championships.

Kasey Perry-Glass in only the second CDI on Heartbeat W.P., a 12-year-old KWPN gelding, placed third on 71.383%.

Kasey rode Dublet on the U.S. team for bronze at the 2016 Olympics and for silver along with Adrienne and Salvino at the 2018 World Equestrian Games.

“I was so incredibly happy with him today,” said Adrienne after the ride on the horse that had been competed by world champion rider Charlotte “Lottie” Fry of Great Britain. “This is the first full Special I’ve ridden through on him. We chose just to do a national Grand Prix and then try to kind of trust him that he would be there when we needed him.

“I’m just so, so happy at his energy and his honesty and his willingness. He really seems like he’s starting to understand what I want and fight for me in there, which is really special for him to do in such a new relationship.”

Endel told dressage-news.com he loved “the feeling and the energy” on Bohemian. “He felt really with me.”

Prospects have three more competitions in Florida–two at Terra Nova near Sarasota and one at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala for a “short” list of about eight riders and horses to go to Europe to compete in June and July before the Paris Olympics.

Endel and Bohemian and Adrienne and Lars after one qualifying CDI now stand in the third and fourth places behind Sarah Tubman on First Apple and Steffen Peters on Suppenkasper. Sarah and First Apple last competed at the Pan American Games in October but plan to show next month.

Results:

CDI3* Grand Prix Special

Rank	Competitor	Score	E	H	C	M	B
1.	Adrienne Lyle (USA) Lars van de Hoenderheide	73.192%	73.511	73.936	72.128	73.511	72.872
2.	Endel Ots (USA) Zen Elite’s Bohemian	72.490%	71.809	72.979	74.894	71.489	71.277
3.	Kasey Perry-Glass (USA) Heartbeat W.P.	71.383%	70.532	71.383	71.809	71.170	72.021
4.	Marcus Orlob (USA) Jane	70.830%	72.447	69.468	71.277	70.000	70.957
5.	Ashley Holzer (USA) Hansel	69.766%	69.894	70.851	67.660	69.043	71.383
6.	Callie O’Connell (USA) Eaton H	66.660%	67.340	67.553	65.745	65.000	67.660
7.	James Irwin (CAN) Simsalabim	66.659%	65.957	68.085	64.787	67.447	67.021
8.	Camille Carier Bergeron (CAN) Sound of Silence 4	66.638%	66.915	67.128	66.170	67.021	65.957
9.	Geñay Vaughn (USA) Gino	66.617%	67.872	66.596	66.277	63.936	68.404
10.	Jill Irving (CAN) Genesis	65.511%	66.277	65.426	63.298	65.106	67.447
11.	Nicholia Clarke (USA) Sir Amour	63.043%	62.681	64.170	62.681	63.851	61.830
12.	Micah Deligdish (ISR) Santos	62.255%	61.277	62.234	62.979	62.340	62.447
13.	Luuk Mourits (NED) Harmony’s Don’t Stop The Feeling	61.532%	62.447	61.702	60.426	62.447	60.638
14.	Barbara Bertschinger (SUI) Sonnenbergs Solisco CH	61.234%	63.532	61.298	61.404	60.872	59.064
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