FEI PRESS RELEASE Short Grand Prix win goes to Dalera and von Bredow-Werndl

It was no surprise when the reigning Olympic and European gold medallists, 36-year-old Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her 15-year-old mare TSF Dalera BB, strutted their way into pole position in the Short Grand Prix when the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 got underway in Leipzig, Germany tonight.

Drawn in prime last-to-go position the German duo soared ahead of the opposition to post a score of 84.793, pinning Denmark’s Cathrine Dufour and Vamos Amigos into second place and their German counterparts and defending three-time champions Isabell Werth and Weihegold OLD into third.

A strong test from Denmark’s Nanna Skodberg Merrald and the 17-year-old Atterupgaards Orthilia put them top of the leaderboard on a score of 75.752 when fourth to go and that proved unbeatable until Werth posted 79.756 to go out in front when twelfth into the arena. 

But then Dufour broke the 80 percent barrier with a great performance from the 10-year-old Vamos Amigos to put 80.019 on the board only for von Bredow-Werndl to deny her the top step of the podium with her winning ride.

Freestyle

It’s now down to Saturday night’s Freestyle to decide the fate of the 2022 FEI Dressage World Cup™ title and for Werth this entire week is filled with emotion because her great mare will be officially retired that evening in a special ceremony. She couldn’t hold back the tears in her post-competition TV interview.

And there was emotion for von Bredow-Werndl too tonight. “As you know I’m six months pregnant and I feel super fit and so does Dalera, but from a sporting point of view it’s a little bit sad because this is my last big competition before a break”, said the rider who has swept all before her over the last ten months.

Dufour was elated with the result she achieved from her relatively young horse. “I was surprised and super happy with his performance. He was really on fire in the ring and the audience started clapping in the first extention and I thought “No!” because he had legs everywhere! But he’s only done a few indoor shows so the fact that he kept his mind in the right place and performed like he did today that is really fantastic!”, she said.

In the shadow 

Asked if her Olympic ride, Bohemian, might find himself in the shadow of this new young star, Dufour laughed and said, “no you don’t know how big Bohemian’s ego is!  Of course Vamos has plenty of quality and there is way more in him but Bohemian has more experience so far and I feel very lucky I have two horses that are currently ready for a team position - obviously with the World Championships coming up in Denmark. And I also enjoy every competition, because you never know what happens”, she pointed out wisely.

Werth said she was pleased and proud of her great mare tonight. “She did a super job, just a little mistake, I think a one-tempi was a bit short in the beginning, she was so focused and especially the highlights were piaffe/passage and the pirouettes were really good. So I’m just happy and looking forward to Saturday and it’s a pleasure for me to present her in that way. She’s done so many great competitions, from the beginning to the end she always tries to give her best and that makes her a very special horse”, she said.

Looking ahead

Looking ahead to Saturday’s Freestyle, von Bredow-Werndl said she loves her current one

"“and I think Dalera does too, she feels the rhythm, she knows it’s her music and maybe that gives her even more confidence"

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (GER)

It still feels like she’s improving and always giving 100% and when there are mistakes it’s because of me. She’s always on fire and always willing to do her very best”.

Dufour said she is “borrowing bits and pieces from Bohemian’s Olympic Freestyle and since I’ve only done two World Cups I haven’t had time to make one of his very own (for Vamos Amigos). So I’ve stolen the music and played with the choreography. It’s a super high degree of difficulty and I think the music suits really well and it tells a story about my life at the moment. I feel like I’m living the dream back home and I just enjoy every day with the horses and I think the music sums it up really well. It’s a really powerful Freestyle and I’m just excited to ride it. He’s still young and it’s my first World Cup Final so I’m just here to enjoy it and have fun!”, she explained.

Werth meanwhile is determined that Weihegold will go out in style on Saturday night.
“I hope we can show a very good test like she deserves, and it will be pleasure to be here with a loud crowd in a competition. I think it’s just great to retire her not in an empty arena, she really deserves this atmosphere, so I’m really looking forward to it and I will try to enjoy it. And of course I have the pressure of showing her as best as possible, more than ever before because it is the last one!”

Don’t miss a hoofbeat…..

Result here 

Så gøres der klar til FEI World Cup finale LIVE fra Leipzig torsdag og lørdag aften

World Cup finale med Cathrine, Carina og Nanna

For de 3 unge danske ryttere er det fælles debut i World Cup finalen, og alle er velankommet til Leipzig og hestene har været ude at strække benene. Inden afrejsen fortalte de alle 3 at de havde haft super træning op til stævnet og glædede sig meget til finalen.

Cathrine har tidligere været tæt på World Cup finalen i bl.a. 2020 hvor målet jo var OL, ligesom også Nanna helt tilbage i 2014 var kvalificeret til finalen (blot 21 år gammel) sammen med Millibar, som desværre ikke kom til start, da han ikke gik gennem vet check.

Danmark og Tyskland er de eneste to nationer som har 3 ekvipager med i finalen (som er max. fra hver nation).

I dag kl. 14.00 er der vet check og kl. 16.00 trækkes der lod om startrækkefølgen indenfor hver gruppe. De lavest rangerende på FEI World Ranking rider i første gruppe og de højest rangerende rider i sidste gruppe.

Se forklaring på lodtrækningen her:

Årets World Cup finale som afholdes i Leipzig er med World Cup short Grand Prix klassen torsdag aften kl. 18.30 og World Cup Grand Prix kür finale lørdag aften kl. 19.10. Der rides om en samlet præmiesum på ialt 300.000 euro, med 25.000 euro i Grand Prix klassen og 275.000 euro i küren.

Begge dage vil H2R være med live med lidt ekstra info og kommentarer på hver enkelt ekvipage via Clipmyhorse/FEI-tv.

Link til start og resultater finder du her.

Et kig på deltagerfeltet giver bestemt forhåbninger om topplaceringer til de 3 danske ekvipager.

Deltagere:

Dommerteamet:

FEI PRESS RELEASE - Will Weihegold win title number six for Werth?

In the history of equestrian sport there are names that resonate, because the best of the best in each discipline make their mark. Isabell Werth’s name is one of those, having carved out a long and hugely successful career during which she has collected a mountain of medals along with the elegant FEI Dressage World Cup™ trophy on no less than five occasions.

Already the most decorated equestrian athlete of all time, the German superstar returns this week to the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 to defend the title she first claimed with Fabienne in Gothenburg (SWE) back in 1992. And it will be a poignant event for the 52-year-old rider because her great mare, Weihegold OLD, will be retired after next Saturday’s Freestyle.

The pair are defending three-time champions having proven unbeatable in Omaha (USA) in 2017, in Paris (FRA) in 2018 and at the last Final staged in Gothenburg (SWE) in 2019 before the pandemic took its toll. We will never know if their strike-rate would have continued had the 2020 and 2021 Finals been staged, but they will still make more history if they could pull off one more win this week on home ground in Leipzig (GER).

Most victories

The Netherlands’ Anky van Grunsven holds the record for the most victories in the series that this year celebrates its 35th season. The Dutch rider racked up a colossal nine wins with two great horses, Bonfire and Salinero, between 1995 and 2008 but she never managed four-in-a-row.

If Werth and Weihegold come out on top

they will be the first to do just that,

bringing their partnership to the perfect conclusion.

But the 17-year-old mare owes nothing to anyone

when she steps into the arena this week.

At the Rio 2016 Olympic Games she clinched team gold and individual silver before going on to take all gold at the FEI European Championships in 2017 and team gold and Grand Prix Special silver at the 2021 edition. 

She has made the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final all her own in recent years and at the Western European League qualifier in Lyon (FRA) last October posted her fifth consecutive win at the French fixture. However the biggest threat to her supremacy probably comes from another super mare, the 14-year-old TSF Dalera BB who has swept all before her in the recent past with Werth’s compatriot, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl in the saddle.

This pair, who top the World Dressage Rankings, go into battle this week with a full set of Olympic and European medals in their hip pocket, all collected in the last seven months, and firing on all cylinders following victories at the last two legs of the Western European League 2021/2022 in Neumünster (GER) in February and ’s-Hertogenbosch (NED) just three weeks ago. They will be by far the biggest threat to the entire field of 18 horse-and-rider combinations from 13 countries when the action begins with the Short Grand Prix on Thursday evening, April 7.

Really strong

The host nation looks really strong, with 2013 series champion Helen Langehanenberg also flying the home flag with Annabelle 110, but Denmark’s Cathrine Dufour is likely to pose a threat with the 10-year-old Vamos Amigos who showed huge promise when finishing second to von Bredow-Werndl and Dalera in Neumünster. The strength of the Danish contingent was quite apparent that day when Nanna Skodberg Merrald lined up in third with Atterupgaards Orthilia and Carina Cassøe Krüth finished fourth with Heiline’s Danciera, and all three Danes have made the cut to this weeks’ Final.

That supreme showman, Patrik Kittel, will be the sole Swedish contender partnering his relatively new ride Blue Hors Zepter while Charlotte Fry is the single British athlete with Dark Legend. Spain will be represented by Juan Matute Guimon (Quantico), France by Morgan Barbançon (Sir Donnerhall ll OLD), The Netherlands by Thamar Zweistra (Hexagon’s Ich Weiss) while Ashley Holzer (Havanna 145) and Anna Buffini (FRH Davinia La Douce) will fly the American flag.

Moldova’s Alisa Glinka (Aachen), Poland’s Katarzyna Milczarek (Guapo), Morocco’s Yessin Rahmouni (All at Once), Portugal’s Rodrigo Torres (Fogoso Horsecampline) and Dominican Republic’s Yvonne Losos de Muñiz (Aquamarijn) round up the startlist, and the order-of-go will be decided by a draw for the Short Grand Prix on Wednesday afternoon. 

Ground Jury

Germany’s Henning Lehrmann is President of the Ground Jury at this year’s Final and the remaining members are Michael Osinski (USA), Kurt Christensen (DEN), Isabelle Judet (FRA), Clive Halsall (GBR), Annette Fransen Iacobaeus (SWE) and Eddy de Wolff van Westerrode (NED). 

It was an all-German podium when Werth first won the FEI Dressage World Cup™ title 30 years ago, while The Netherlands Imke Schellekens-Bartels finished second ahead of America’s Steffen Peters when she did it again in Las Vegas (USA) in 2007. America’s Laura Graves was her closest rival at the last three editions but it is compatriot von Bredow-Werndl who is likely to apply the maximum pressure this time around.

However anyone who has watched Werth throughout her career knows her will to win, and her dedication to her horses, is second to none. There will be a lot of emotion in the air when Weihegold does her last dance in next Sunday’s Freestyle.

So don’t miss a hoofbeat…..

Full details here 

6 & 7 April with OLD short stallion performance test in Vechta - LIVE STREAM via Clipmyhorse

Pilot project with 2-days stallion performance

Wednesday and Thursday with the premier of 2-days stallion performance test in Vechta.

Among the young stallions are some very interesting new licensed stallions like Opoque, Incredible, Fifty-Fifty from Helgstrand Dressage, Secret Lover from Van Olst Horses, Skyline to B from Lodbergen, Escanto PS from Schockemöhle, Finestar from Blue Hors, Obsession Taonga and One-Two-Three from Stal 104.

  • Wednesday 14.00 - 17.00 presentation with own rider

  • Thursday 9.00 - 12.00 test rider

The entire performance test will be available via live stream at Clipmyhorse.

Here you find the entire catalog with stallions for OLD short performance test.

Van Olst Horses online stallion presentation

Impressive list of stallions in the big sport

Friday evening at 7.30 with another great presentation of the stallions from Van Olst Horses.

Last year the theme was the Story of Van Olst Horses while this year was about the huge successes in 2021 of course including Van Olst Horses international top rider British Lottie Fry fully backed and supported by Anne and Gertjan Van Olst and their entire team.

Olympic team bronze medal, silver medal with the team at Europeans, both times with Everdale and World Champion for 6 year old young horses with Kjento, the major sport results in 2021 for Van Olst Horses.

The breeding philosophy is clear “From sport comes sport” says Gertjan van Olst.

Click here to watch the stallion presentation

Van Olst Horses online stallion show on the 1st of April

Mark your calendar 1 April at 7.30 pm

The annual stallion show at Van Olst Horses will be broadcasted online on the 1st of April. You’ll be able to follow the show via Clipmyhorse, KWPN.TV and the website of Van Olst Horses.

“Strive for the highest achievable quality in everything”
Van Olst Horses is a professional equestrian business whose main activities are stallions at stud, dressage, training, youngstock & the purchase and sale of horses.

Daniel Bachmann Andersen with 3 victories today at Vilhelmsborg

Zippo M.I. by Blue Hors Zack / Blue Hors Don Schufro and Daniel Bachmann Andersen

Final day at Danish national event with three victories for Daniel Bachmann Andersen

The young and pretty inexperienced horses Daniel Bachmann showed this weekend looked as if they gained some real nice experience.

Talented youngsters

The 7 year old stallion Zac Efron MT OLD by Blue Hors Zack / Don Larino was shown at small tour (MA1) Saturday where Zac was showing some tensions during the test, especially at entering halt and more times during the test but well managed by Daniel and without major technical issues. Today a much more relaxed test, and no doubt there is a lot of power and qualities for the future, just need some more competition mileage.

The beautiful 9 year old grey Holsteiner stallion Caracciola MT by Chin Champ / Calido I, was last year in the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final also together with Daniel. This weekend at start twice in Intermediaire II and today with victory. Still some green moments but also lovely expression and qualties.

Last win today was Grand Prix Special with 10 year old Danish Warmblood gelding Zippo M.I. by Blue Hors Zack / Blue Hors Don Schufro, which recently moved to Daniel. Yesterday they came 3rd in the Grand Prix, showing some body tensions especially at the beginning of the test. Today he started out much more relaxed and does show clear highlights for the canter tour, with super nice series and very good pirouettes. The trot tour was more supple today, showing good expression for the passage, but not yet the clear piaffe beat and balance, the walk is clear but lacking bit more suppleness. Today scoring 70,883% and with clear potential for a 75% test.


VIDEO - Helgstrand makes impressive national Grand Prix debut with two just 8 year old horses

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.

Click here to watch Jovian and Andreas helgstrand

Placed combinations:

Stallion shows this weekend LIVE at Clipmyhorse with Isabell Werth showing two stallions

3 stallion shows live this weekend

Team Nijhof Saturday at 2 pm with 6 dressage stallions among them the very well moving Fontaine TN by Finest / Samarant

Hengststation Schult Saturday at 2.30 pm. Very interesting to see the two stallions Valdiviani by Veneno / Fidertanz and Majestic Taonga by Toto Jr / Jazz, both presented by Isabell Werth. Also Flash Bang by Fürst Jazz / Sir Donnerhall I and Escaneno by Escamillo / Veneno will be presented.

Sunday with Landgestüt Nordrhein Westfalen at 11 am. Here you find the entire list of stallions.

Stud fee vouchers auction for Ukraine at HORSE24 running until 27 March

Auction of stud fee vouchers

In a very short time Horse24 succeeded to sign up with 40 stallion stations throughout Europe in order to raise money to help Ukraine.

Stud fee vouchers for a total of 112 stallions are in the auction.

For the breeders this auction gives you a great possibility to search for some of the best stallions in Europe and at the same time check out both videos, predigree and informations, and make your bet.

“Together we must help the suffering people and animals in Ukraine. The full auction prices without any costs will be donated directly to Equiwent Hilfe”
— HORSE24

Two different lots are running until 27 March

The first part of the auction will end 27 March at 2 pm, while the second part will end 27 March at 5 pm.

Current dressage top prices in lot 1:

Current dressage top prices in lot 2:

Check out both running auction lots here.

World Cup final 7 & 9 April LIVE from Leipzig at Clipmyhorse

World Cup final

A very exciting World Cup final comes up in April. Will Dalera and Jessica remain unbeatable and which combinations will at the podium this year.

Schedule:

  • World Cup Short Grand Prix Thursday 7 April at 6.30 pm

  • World Cup Grand Prix freestyle final Saturday 9 April at 7.10 pm

There will be full live stream at Clipmyhorse, and for the Danish viewers also with Danish commentary.

Entries:

FEI PRESS RELEASE - Being more Jessica......

Olympic and European champions, Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Wendl and TSF Dalera BB, will be chasing gold once again at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 in Leipzig, Germany in just over two week time. (FEI/Liz Gregg)

With two Olympic and three European gold medals all collected over the last eight months, Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB look hot favourites to take the FEI Dressage World Cup™ title when the 2021/2022 Final gets underway on home ground in Leipzig (GER) in just over two weeks’ time.

While driving her lorry full of horses home from CDI*** in Ornago (ITA) yesterday where she steered the ever-improving 13-year-old gelding Ferdinand BB to win both the Grand Prix and Freestyle and where her student-rider, Raphael Netz, won three U25 competitions, she talked about the path that has taken her to where she is now in her career, and her future plans. But when it comes to predicting results she won’t be drawn. She doesn’t take anything for granted.  

“Of course you have to have a clear vision and you must set your goals, but over the last 20 years there were times when I didn’t believe in myself anymore. However I always tried to push myself and I held on to my dreams and hoped the opportunities would come”, says the 36-year-old based at Aubenhausen in southern Germany who holds the No. 1 spot in the Dressage World Rankings.

Key to success

Jessica says that the key to her success was the decision “to stop trying to be someone else”. By the age of 19 she had already earned six gold and two silver medals at European Championships, but it all went wrong in her early 20s. “I had some difficult years with hardly any success and I struggled a lot. I had been Junior and Young Rider champion many times so I dreamed of it at Senior level. But for more than five years it didn’t happen”, she says.

It was a light-bulb moment during which she decided to just “be more Jessica” that turned everything around.

"I stopped trying to imitate other riders and began to focus on doing things my own way - the way I always loved to do it, going back to being the little girl who loved to play with her horses. The horses began to enjoy it more and I don’t ever want to lose that joy again!"

she explains.

She describes herself as “very lucky” that Beatrice Bürchler-Keller entrusted her with Unee BB in 2012. This was the horse that would turn her life around. In 2015 the pair were on the bronze medal winning team at the FEI European Championships in Aachen (GER) and they finished third at three FEI Dressage World Cup™ Finals in Las Vegas (USA) that same year, in Gothenburg (SWE) in 2016 and again in Paris (FRA) in 2018. 

“Unee was one of the most important teachers for me”, Jessica says. “He wasn’t interested in me when he first arrived so I had to find a way to make myself interesting to him. He was nearly ready for Grand Prix when I got him and I really wanted to win his heart but I couldn’t do it the way I used to do it because I always grew up with the horses I’d ridden before. He already knew what he was doing and had his own way, so I had to learn his language before we could both learn a common language. I learned that it’s not just about the horse doing things my way but about doing what is best for each individual horse and being more flexible”. 

Top trainers

Along the way she worked with many top trainers including Paul Elzenbaumer, “a very patient, loving and calm man” and then Stefan Münch, compatriot Isabell Werth who will be defending her title at the 2022 Final with Weihegold, then Jonny Hilberath, Morten Thomsen, Andreas Hausberger and Monica Theodorescu. “However I always have my own ideas, and I rely also on my brother Benni (Benjamin Werndl) who is very important to me - it’s our goal to be in the German team together some day!”, Jessica points out.

Now of course her career at top level revolves around the brilliant 15-year-old TSF Dalera BB who she has been riding since the mare was eight years old. “It was when she was 10 and we won the Louisdor Final in Frankfurt that I realised she could be very special, and when she was third in the Freestyle in 2019 (at the FEI European Championships in Rotterdam) that was the day I thought everything is possible. Then two years later (at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and FEI Dressage European Championships in Hagen) we proved it!” 

And making their prospects even more exciting is the fact that Jessica believes Dalera has further room for improvement. “She feels she can give even more and when I enter the arena I always know she will try her heart out and give her best. I think she loves me and the life she is living. She loves travelling and she’s a real showgirl! But we both enjoy cantering through the forest as much as competing. She’s grateful for that, and so am I”.

Many talents

Jessica is a woman of many talents. During lockdown she wrote a book - “Heaven on Horseback” - about her life, her struggles, her inspiration and her positivity, and she’s currently working on a second publication, a children’s book. She says a near-death experience, when she almost drowned, changed her view on life and helped her become more reflective and to move forward. She wants this latest book to be “a nice story, with a lot of learning”. 

Her five-year-old son, Moritz, may be a little too young to enjoy it as yet because it will be aimed at children aged 10+. Moritz travelled with her to Ornago and it was the first weekend Jessica was without the support of her husband or parents, but it worked out well thanks to the help of grooms and riders. With another baby on the way - due in August and therefore negating any possibility of a tilt at the World Championship titles - she knows she’s going to have even more on her plate in future. “I’ll have to manage my life even better and I’ll need more help for sure. It’s really important to have a good work/life balance”, she says. However she’s aiming to return to action as quickly as possible after baby number two arrives. “I was competing four weeks after giving birth to my first son, so hopefully I can do that again!”, she says with a laugh.

For now however, the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2022 final has her full attention. For Dalera the preparation will be kept very simple - “nothing special, just keeping her motivated, healthy and happy, hacking in the forest and if the weather is good then going on the gallops”, she explains.

And as for preparing herself, it will be about focusing on the reason she does what she does. “Sometimes we need to remind ourselves why we started in the sport - because we love horses. So many people focus too much on the outcome - the success rather than how to get there. I try to focus on how to get there, rather than the outcome”.

Being more Jessica….that seems to work…..

More information about the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 

4 nykårede DV hingste klar til bedækningssæsonen

Blot 4 dressurhingste blev indsyet til den obligatoriske 10-dages test i Tørring efter hingstekåringen i Herning.

De øvrige godkendte hingste vil blive præsenteret til de kommende tyske 2-dages test i hhv. 6. - 7. april i Vechta, og 26. - 28. april i Münster-Handoff, for at opnå deres endelige godkendelse for i år.


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OLD saddle Licensing and Riding Horses for Online auction - videos online

Videos of 11 dressage stallions for the up-coming OLD saddle licensing and 20 dressage horses are online.

2 April at 3 pm to 10 pm with Online & Live OLD Auction

Among the stallions for the saddle licensing no 46 by Glamourdale / Londonderry look like a top price stallion.

Among the riding horses and older licensed stallions Morricone III look like to absolute top price.

Here you find the entire list of horses for the auction.

There will be online presentation of the collection 27 March at 6 pm at Clipmyhorse.

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