Today’s winner of CDI-W Grand Prix Cathrine Dufour with Bohemian - photo credit: H2R
Two intensive international dressage days started today at Vilhelmsborg, Denmark
Today with CDI3 Prix St. Georg, CDI3 Grand Prix and CDI-W Grand Prix, and it was a pure “candy day” for dressage lovers as all 3 classes were with high profile riders and top horses.
Prix St. Georg
Top mare Straight Horse Ascenzione (full sister of triple World Champion for Young Horses Sezuan) with Helen Langehanenberg in the saddle showed why they undoubtedly are going to WCYH again this year representing Danish Warmblood. Super strong winner performance 76,412%, closely followed by debut combination Patrik Kittel with 8 year old Swedish bred Touchdown. A super well moving and very interesting horse for the future.
Nanna Merrald and Blue Hors Farrell with power balanced trot tour, the walk tour becomes a bit unbalanced, while the canter overall has really improved.
CDI3 Grand Prix
Victoria Max-Theurer and her recent new addition Abegglen FH NRW showed a very strong performance with very much power and balance, easy piaffe and expressive passage, the walk becomes a bit short overall, good canter tour.
Right in the footsteps of Max-Theurer was Dufour, this time with international debut together with the just 8 year old Vamos Amigos by Vitalis. Might have mentioned this before, but a top talented horse like Vamos is just in the best hands of Dufour. The bonding Dufour is able to make with her horses is incredible. Watching her at the warm up building up the bricks one by one before going into the main arena, and being 200% aware of how difficult the task actually is by cheering up Vamos, speaking to him and pat him every time he is doing some great steps.
More new combinations
Eros and Australian Lyndal Oatley also made their international debut together today. Lots of nice things with huge talent for piaffe and passage, and most of all he looks a real pal in the arena trying to the best all the way.
Andreas Helgstrand has temporary taken over the reins of Fuhur from his student Anna Kasprzak, as she is expecting her 2nd child and wanted to give Fuhur some more competition experience.
Dennis Fisker made his international debut with Qabil Ambak´s Delation and Anna Zibrandtsen with Detroit. For both combination they just need some. more experience together in the arena.
World Cup
Personal Best score of 83,435% for Dufour with Bohemian was 5,5% ahead of Queen of dressage Isabell Werth with Emilio.
Placed 5 - 8 was also pure Danish, World Cup debut for Heiline´s Danciera with Carina Cassøe Krüth, as it was also World Cup debut for Fiontini with Andreas Helgstrand, like Bufranco with Charlotte Heering also made their World Cup debut. Lone Bang Larsen and Bakkely´s Onandt continued their success from Hagen with another technical error free test and another Personal Best with 73,456%
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Corona restrictions are of course a huge part of the event, but everybody is following the organisers requirements and riders, horses, officials and reduced spectators were all happy being a part of this smaller set-up.
