Marianne Helgstrand and Lone Bang Larsen - private photo.
Super proud Danish ladies with strong and Personal Best performances
Even though the field for Sunday afternoons CDI5 Grand Prix freestyle was reduced to just 6 combinations it became an exciting and sharp competition, with Danish ladies in top followed by the charming Frisian stallion Elias with his Belgium rider Marc-Peter Spahn.
The huge environment can be kind of a challenge with the often a bit hot Danish Warmblood gelding Bakkely´s Onandt and Lone Bang Larsen when watching the training Wednesday evening, but Lone knows how to try to handle Onandt, and he settled very well during the days, still without loosing fuel for the final day with a winning personal best score of 78,405% (former PB 76,655% Randbøl 11/2019).
For Danish Marianne Helgstrand is was a huge improvement from her former personal best with her 16 year old Lollipop scoring 77,085% (former PB 71,650% Aarhus 06/2019).
“It was a great feeling today together with Lollipop in the arena, like in the Grand Prix Friday, as I now have the feeling that we are on the right track. After our performances in Norway I felt I could do it better. The last couple of months Andreas has been helping me and being the eyes on the ground for us. Entering the centerline Lollipop is of course the most experienced by the two of us, so I have to be really sharp from first step. I felt that everything we have been working on to improve succeded today. Both Lone and I felt like we won the Olympics,” told a big smiling 😅😉Marianne Helgstrand after the Grand Prix freestyle.
Marc-Peter Spahn and his Frisian stallion were for the first time in Herning, and he was very pleased about the entire event, and would love to be back next year.
Results of the entire class here.
