By KENNETH J. BRADDICK
AACHEN, Germany, July 6, 2024–Isabell Werth on Wendy de Fontaine won the CDIO5* Grand Prix Special Saturday with teammate Frederic Wandres on Bluetooth OLD placing third that appeared certain for the pair to join Jessica von Bredow -Werndl on TSF Dalera BB on the German team at the Paris Olympics in three weeks.
Isabell, the most successful equestrian in the history of the Olympics, scored scored a personal best 78.058% for the victory on the 10-year-old mare that she began competing exactly five months ago when Andreas Helgstrand who owned the horse with Chateau de Fontaine was suspended from the sport.
In 10 starts, Isabell and Wendy have won six times and placed second four times.
Paris will be Isabell’s Seventh Olympics, stretching back to 1992 when she rode Gigolo on the gold medal team and took individual silver. In 1996 she won golds in both divisions, again on Gigolo, then at Sydney in 2000 with Gigolo was on the gold medal team and earned individual silver.
On Satchmo in 2008 at Hong Kong, on Weihegold OLD at Rio de Janeiro and her “heart” horse Bella Rose at Tokyo again won teram gold and an assortment of individual gold and silver medals.
Netherlands’ Dinja van Liere on the nine-year-old Hanoverian gelding Vita di Lusso was runner-up on 76.872%. Dinja has already been named to the Dutch team on Hermes, and horse she was selected for Tokyo but because of a bureaucratic screwup was not able to compete.
Frederic Wandres, who has been a highly successful rider at Florida’s Global Dressage Festival in Wellington since 2021 as well as in Europe, was awarded 76.851% on Bluetooth OLD.
The Oldenburg gelding now aged 14 was ridden by Frederic on Germany’s silver medal team at last year’s European Championships.
If he’s named to the team Sunday, it will be his first Olympics.
Results:
| Rank | Competitor | Score | E | H | C | M | B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Isabell Werth (GER)
Wendy de Fontaine
|
78.085% | 77.447 | 77.553 | 79.149 | 77.553 | 78.723 |
| 2. |
Dinja Van Liere (NED)
Vita di Lusso
|
76.872% | 76.489 | 76.809 | 77.872 | 77.447 | 75.745 |
| 3. |
Frederic Wandres (GER)
Bluetooth OLD
|
76.851% | 76.170 | 77.021 | 75.426 | 76.596 | 79.043 |
| 4. |
Ingrid Klimke (GER)
Franziskus FRH
|
74.596% | 72.553 | 75.745 | 76.277 | 74.574 | 73.830 |
| 5. |
Nadja Aaboe Sloth (DEN)
Favour Gersdorf
|
74.170% | 74.255 | 74.787 | 75.532 | 73.298 | 72.979 |
| 6. |
Marieke van der Putten (NED)
Torveslettens Titanium RS2 N.O.P.
|
74.021% | 74.468 | 74.043 | 73.511 | 73.511 | 74.574 |
| 7. |
Patrik Kittel (SWE)
Jovian
|
72.979% | 73.617 | 71.702 | 74.149 | 72.766 | 72.660 |
| 8. |
Pauline Basquin (FRA)
Sertorius de Rima Z IFCE
|
72.957% | 72.660 | 73.617 | 72.340 | 72.979 | 73.191 |
| 9. |
Nanna Skodborg Merrald (DEN)
Blue Hors St. Schufro
|
72.489% | 71.170 | 73.085 | 72.660 | 73.723 | 71.809 |
| 10. |
Endel Ots (USA)
Zen Elite’s Bohemian
|
72.064% | 70.745 | 72.128 | 73.085 | 71.915 | 72.447 |
| 11. |
Sofie Lexner (SWE)
Inoraline W
|
71.957% | 70.957 | 73.085 | 72.128 | 71.596 | 72.021 |
| 12. |
Borja Carrascosa (ESP)
Sir Hubert NRW
|
71.617% | 71.383 | 71.915 | 70.426 | 70.745 | 73.617 |
| 13. |
Charlotte Fry (GBR)
Especial
|
71.064% | 70.638 | 70.319 | 72.766 | 71.383 | 70.213 |
| 14. |
Devenda Dijkstra (NED)
Hero
|
70.979% | 70.426 | 71.170 | 70.851 | 70.532 | 71.915 |
| 15. |
Anna Zibrandtsen (DEN)
Quel Filou
|
70.574% | 71.596 | 70.957 | 69.787 | 69.574 | 70.957 |
| 16. |
Marcus Orlob (USA)
Jane
|
70.468% | 70.638 | 71.489 | 71.702 | 70.106 | 68.404 |
| 17. |
Juliette Ramel (SWE)
Gideon K.H.
|
69.979% | 66.809 | 70.851 | 69.468 | 70.106 | 72.660 |
| 18. |
Susan Pape (GBR)
Harmony’s V-Plus
|
69.957% | 70.000 | 70.000 | 69.894 | 69.787 | 70.106 |
| 19. |
Anna Buffini (USA)
Fiontini
|
69.894% | 69.894 | 71.064 | 69.574 | 69.149 | 69.787 |
| 20. |
Larissa Pauluis (BEL)
First- Step Valentin
|
69.277% | 69.787 | 69.362 | 68.830 | 69.255 | 69.149 |
| 21. |
Juan Rodriguez Carvajal (ESP)
Meggle’s Boston
|
68.808% | 68.830 | 69.681 | 67.872 | 69.574 | 68.085 |
| 22. |
Anna Louise Ross (GBR)
Habouche
|
68.596% | 68.404 | 69.255 | 68.830 | 67.660 | 68.830 |
| 23. |
Alexandre Ayache (FRA)
Jolene
|
68.468% | 68.191 | 68.830 | 67.553 | 69.255 | 68.511 |
| 24. |
Denise Nekeman (NED)
Boston STH
|
68.255% | 67.979 | 69.468 | 68.085 | 68.723 | 67.021 |
| 25. |
Anne Sophie Serre (FRA)
Jibraltar de Massa
|
68.000% | 66.809 | 68.085 | 67.979 | 67.553 | 69.574 |
| 26. |
Andrina Suter (SUI)
Fibonacci
|
67.957% | 67.872 | 68.936 | 67.234 | 67.234 | 68.511 |
| 27. |
Anna Marek (USA)
Fire Fly
|
67.426% | 66.383 | 67.979 | 67.766 | 67.234 | 67.766 |
| 28. |
Katharina Hemmer (GER)
Denoix PCH
|
66.936% | 66.383 | 68.191 | 66.170 | 66.170 | 67.766 |
| 29. |
Malin Wahlkamp-Nilsson (SWE)
Zackson
|
66.766% | 67.447 | 66.064 | 65.957 | 66.489 | 67.872 |
| EL |
Andrew Gould (GBR)
Indigro
|
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