Fiona Bigwood & Orthilia Log Personal Best to Win Zeeland Outdoor CDI3 Grand Prix Special

Fiona Bigwood and Atterupgaards Orthilia. File photo © 2015 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

NIEUW EN SINT JOOSLAND, Netherlands, April 9, 2016–Fiona Bigwood rode Atterupgaards Orthilia to a personal best score to win the Zeeland Outdoor CDI3 Grand Prix Special Saturday with fellow British rider Spencer Wilton on Super Nova II runner-up.

Fiona and the 11-year-old Oldenburg mare competing in their first CDI since European Championships team silver last summer scored 76.255 per cent and the unanimous choice of the five judges for first place. The previous best Grand Prix Special mark in the pair's year of Big Tour competition was 75.922 per cent at Hartpury, England last July.

Victories in the Grand Prix and the Special are likely to give Fiona and Orthilia a ticket to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August along with European Championship team mates Charlotte Dujardin on Valegro and Carl Hester on Nip Tuck. Carl coaches both Charlotte and Fiona.

Spencer Wilton, campaigning to be on the four-member Olympic team, rode Super Nova to second place on 70.569 per cent.

The Netherlands' Marlies van Baalen on Ratzinger was third also on 70.569 per cent.

Edward Gal and Glock's Undercover pulled out of the Special following a sub-par Grand Prix performance in their first competition of the year.

The horse, Glock Horse Performance Center reported, was “too hot” in schooling. “It is not our weekend.”

Results:

CDI3* Grand Prix Special

Judges-E: M. de Bel NED H: A. Subottina RUS C: M. Peutz NED M: U. Nivelle GER B: S. Rhode RSA

#	RIDER	HORSE			E		H		C		M		B		Total
1	Fiona BIGWOOD    View Protocol	ATTERUPGAARDS ORTHILIA			77.059%		76.667%		75.686%		77.451%		74.412%		76.255%
					393	1	391	1	386	1	395	1	379.5	1	1944.5
2	Spencer WILTON    View Protocol	SUPER NOVA II			69.118%		70.686%		71.373%		72.059%		69.608%		70.569%
					352.5	3	360.5	3	364	3	367.5	2	355	3	1799.5
3	Marlies VAN BAALEN    View Protocol	RATZINGER			70.098%		69.510%		72.745%		68.922%		71.569%		70.569%
					357.5	2	354.5	4	371	2	351.5	4	365	2	1799.5
4	Anne VAN OLST    View Protocol	VORST			69.020%		73.627%		68.431%		70.000%		67.353%		69.686%
					352	4	375.5	2	349	7	357	3	343.5	5	1777
5	Matthias BOUTEN    View Protocol	EHRENGOLD MJ			69.020%		68.137%		69.216%		68.922%		65.784%		68.216%
					352	4	347.5	6	353	6	351.5	4	335.5	8	1739.5
6	Jennifer HOFFMANN    View Protocol	XXXL RUBINIO NRW			68.333%		66.275%		69.804%		68.137%		67.647%		68.039%
					348.5	6	338	8	356	4	347.5	6	345	4	1735
7	Carina NEVERMANN TORUP    View Protocol	SIRIKIT			68.137%		68.333%		69.804%		66.275%		65.000%		67.510%
					347.5	7	348.5	5	356	4	338	9	331.5	11	1721.5
8	Mario VAN ORSHAEGEN    View Protocol	WILCO V			67.941%		66.078%		67.255%		66.275%		66.471%		66.804%
					346.5	8	337	10	343	9	338	9	339	6	1703.5
9	Svenja PEPER    View Protocol	DISNEYWORLD			66.569%		67.745%		67.941%		66.275%		65.098%		66.725%
					339.5	9	345.5	7	346.5	8	338	9	332	10	1701.5
10	João Victor MARCARI OLIVA    View Protocol	HADDINGTON KHR			66.373%		66.078%		65.882%		66.765%		66.275%		66.275%
					338.5	11	337	10	336	11	340.5	7	338	7	1690
11	Francoise HOLOGNE-JOUX    View Protocol	WODAN (NL)			66.471%		63.235%		66.961%		66.373%		65.196%		65.647%
					339	10	322.5	12	341.5	10	338.5	8	332.5	9	1674
12	Tanya SEYMOUR    View Protocol	RAMONEUR 6			65.882%		66.176%		65.098%		65.000%		63.039%		65.039%
					336	12	337.5	9	332	12	331.5	12	321.5	14	1658.5
13	Akane KUROKI    View Protocol	DON LUKA			63.725%		63.137%		65.000%		62.843%		64.216%		63.784%
					325	14	322	13	331.5	13	320.5	14	327.5	12	1626.5
14	Seth BOSCHMAN    View Protocol	ADRIAAN RVL			64.706%		63.039%		63.333%		64.020%		63.529%		63.725%
					330	13	321.5	14	323	14	326.5	13	324	13	1625
15	Fouad ZAFAT    View Protocol	NINTENDO			59.706%		59.510%		58.039%		58.922%		58.824%		59.000%
					304.5	15	303.5	15	296	15	300.5	15	300	15	1504.5