Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

MYAKKA CITY, Florida, May 4, 2024–Adrienne Lyle on Lars van de Hoenderheide won the TerraNova CDI3* Grand Prix Special and Endel Ots on Zen Elite’s Bohemian captured the Freestyle Saturday to complete qualifying of a squad of eight riders to go to Europe for selection of the United States team for the Paris Olympics.

The success of new this year rider and horse combinations–including the winners Saturday–has breathed life into the top level of American dressage after the retirement of horses that had earned silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics and the 2018 World Equestrian Games at Tryon.

“A big sigh of relief, for sure,” Adrienne said after the ride on Lars. “This heat definitely took a little bit out of him today. I’m sure he’s probably never shown in heat like this in his life.  There were still some good highlights in there, I thought, so I’m really happy.”

Endel said of Bohemian he was “very happy”with the horse’s first victory since he began competing Bohemian at the end of March.

“He tried really hard in there and each ride I’m getting to know him better and better. In the two, three months now, he’s changed so much for me in the show ring and it’s come each time I find a small little different piece and so I feel him really thrive for me now in that ring where I can press on, add a little bit of energy. We still keep the warm-up short, but he has so much gas to go and do everything. I find he’s changing each time I go in the ring and each time I do stuff, trying to adjust to him, that’s something I have to focus on.”

Eleven of the top 13 prospects for the European squad are based in Florida while two are in California–Steffen Peters on Suppenkasper that was on the Tokyo and Tryon teams is ranked No. 1 while Anna Buffini on Fiontini did not compete this weekend as they had already fulfilled qualifying requirements.

The leading combinations by results from which the European squad will be selected are: Steffen on Suppenkasper; Adrienne on Lars van de Hoenderheide and Helix; Endel on Bohemian, Anna on Fiontini; Anna Marek on Fire Fly; Katherine Bateson-Chandler on Haute Couture; Sarah Tubman on First Apple; Marcus Orlob on Jane; Jan Ebeling on Jubi’s Tenacitry; Ashley Holzer on Hansel; Kevin Kohmann on Duenensee, and Kasey Perry-Glass on Heartbeat W.P.

The U.S. Equestrian Federation is expected to decide next Tuesday on the squad of up to eight riders that will go to Europe in about two weeks–with factors that are not dependent on the rankings .

They will possibly compete head-to-head for the first time at a CDI3* at Hagen, Germany June 6-9.

The U.S. Olympic Committee requires team members–up to six combinations–to be decided June 24, the day after the Rotterdam CDIO5* to which the U.S. has been invited, and followed by the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany July 1-7.

Olympic dressage starts in Paris July 27.

Results:

CDI3* Grand Prix Special

	Competitor	Score	E	H	C	M	B
1.	Adrienne Lyle (USA) Lars van de Hoenderheide	71.723%	70.426	70.000	72.872	71.915	73.404
2.	Marcus Orlob (USA) Jane	69.872%	72.149	68.000	71.298	69.596	68.319
3.	Sarah Tubman (USA) First Apple	68.745%	67.766	69.255	67.128	69.468	70.106
4.	Ariana Chia (CAN) Guateque IV	68.692%	69.181	68.011	68.862	69.181	68.223
5.	Ashley Holzer (USA) Hawtins San Floriana	68.553%	68.298	67.660	69.468	68.830	68.511
6.	Denielle Gallagher (CAN) Come Back de Massa	67.787%	67.447	68.617	66.596	67.979	68.298
7.	Jill Irving (CAN) Genesis	67.681%	67.660	69.043	67.021	66.489	68.191
8.	Chris von Martels (CAN) Eclips	66.787%	66.915	67.340	64.574	67.340	67.766
9.	Naïma Moreira Laliberté (CAN) Inspire	66.766%	67.979	66.809	65.957	67.340	65.745
10.	Rakeya Moussa (CAN) Davidoff V.H. Trichelhof	66.617%	66.277	66.915	66.489	67.660	65.745
11.	Mathilde Blais Tetreault (CAN) Fedor	65.936%	66.277	66.489	64.255	65.000	67.660
12.	Lindsay Kellock (CAN) Tu le Merite	65.510%	65.106	67.340	65.106	64.149	65.851
13.	Ava MacCoubrey (CAN) Don Camillo-S	65.489%	66.915	65.957	64.362	64.894	65.319
WD	Lars Petersen (USA) Dixie WRF	withdrawn
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CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle

Rank	Competitor	Score	E	H	C	M	B
1.	Endel Ots (USA) Zen Elite’s Bohemian	75.670%	79.350	72.250	75.750	76.000	75.000
2.	Kasey Perry-Glass (USA) Heartbeat W.P.	72.615%	69.800	72.975	72.150	72.800	75.350
3.	Adrienne Lyle (USA) Helix	72.560%	72.275	71.025	74.050	75.725	69.725
4.	Ashley Holzer (USA) Hansel	71.940%	71.600	72.175	72.250	72.375	71.300
5.	Katherine Bateson Chandler (USA) Haute Couture	71.935%	72.675	72.825	72.000	71.075	71.100
6.	Geñay Vaughn (USA) Gino	69.355%	67.800	68.800	70.800	69.700	69.675
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