Andreas Helgstrand is back at Grand Prix level with two young horses
8 year old KWPN stallion Jovian and 8 year old Danish Warmblood mare Queenparks Wendy both made their national Grand Prix debut today at Vilhelmsborg with impressive 83,700% and 77,233%.
Both horses produced from youngsters to now as just 8 year old at Grand Prix level by Andreas Helgstrand.
Jovian & Andreas Helgstrand - Super halt, power expressive diagonal balance push uphill, good balance and bending for both half passes, super balance left, good halt with rein back, WOW extension, super into passage, very expressive passage, bit unbalance into piaffe, good steps but forward, good into walk, clear extended walk lack bit more over track, good collected walk, nice into passage, 10-11 piaffe steps forward, good passage, bit tense hind piaffe, good into canter, good 2 times, super extended canter, bit unbalanced tension hind zigzag, LOST signal, until final piaffe, much forward, super passage, nice halt.
From H2R point of view judge at B, Christine Prip was pretty much spot on with 80,200%
Queenparks Wendy & Andreas Helgstrand - Bit open halt, good power and balance for diagonal, good balance for half passes, good halt tense rein back, nice diagonal, super into passage, good passage, becomes tiny bit slow steps and travel bit forward, good transition to walk, super extended walk, good collected walk, clear up into passage, bit forward 2nd piaffe, nice expressive passage, tense into canter, error mid 2 times, super nice extended canter, bit unbalanced zigzag error end, good 1 times bit short, good 1st pirouette, 2nd becomes bit big, good into trot, good diagonal, need bit more clear push start of passage, forward final piaffe, lack bit more impulsion for final passage meters.
Placed as no 3 Daniel Bachmann Andersen & Zippo M.I. - great improvement of the piaffe tours from last time. Starting the test with some tensions and uneven steps, but becomes clearly more relaxed at the end of the test.
Michael Søgaard and Fredendals Fountain showed a very nice overall test with just an error for the two times. Nice expressive test with good power and balance. Good angle for piaffe and passage tours. Still need a bit to much help for the series, but well managed.
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