A very narrow margin for today’s victory at home soil for Thibault Vandenberghe scoring 71,588% while 2nd place went to Charlotte Fry with Graaf Leatherdale T with 71,088%.
No rest for the Christmas for British Charlotte Fry, while she is busy starting both small tour and big tour at Mechelen, and at the same time she was suppose to be at start for the Dutch stallion competition today at Zuidbroek, but the schedule did not really fit as her start time for CDI-W Grand Prix in Mechelen with Dark Legend was at 13.27 and at 13.29 with Jayson at Zuidbroek, and a distance of 288 km between Mechelen and Zuidbroek = not possible. Instead Van Olst Horses rider Manuel Springetti took over the ride of both Kjento and Jayson, and with Kjento he came 2nd.
This morning Fry made her international debut together with the 8 year old gelding Graaf Leatherdale T by Lord Leatherdale / Kennedy. They showed a smooth power trot tour in nice balance, bit tension for the walk tour, and out of the 2nd canter pirouette Graaf lost the canter, but nice quality for the series.
For the very successful and experienced Dutch combination Joyce Heuitink with Gaudi Vita it became a very difficult start as Gaudi spins around towards C and the Joyce chose the wrong route, but from there a very solid test and they finish 4th with 69,882%.
Germany´s Fredric Wandres showed Hot Hit by Hotline / Diamond Hit, super power and balance for the trot tour trending nearly 75%, tensions for the walk tour and an error out of the first canter pirouette and also an error by the 3-times serie brought them to a placement as no 7 with 69,118%
See the full results here.
