The Netherlands Nations Cup winning team at Rotterdam CDIO5*. © 2016 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, June 25, 2016-The Netherlands won the CDIO5* Nations Cup gold medal Saturday with the United States taking silver and Sweden bronze and the Americans remained firmly at the top of the trans-Atlantic series leaderboard.
Laura Graves on Verdades won the Grand Prix Special and Steffen Peters on Legolas was runnerup in the Freestyle that kept the United States in second place after the Grand Prix as all three phases counted in the event that was the fourth of six Nations Cups. The U.S. won in Wellington, Florida and in France and has a clear lead with two more events to go, in Sweden and Germany in July.
Final standings of the Nations Cup in Rotterdam were 1. Netherlands 460.167; 2. United States 455.649; 3. Sweden 444.573; 4. France 429.961; 5. Great Britain 423.600; 6. Germany, and 7. Belgium.
Laura and her 14-year-old KWPN gelding scored 77.314 per cent to win the Special with the Netherlands' Adelinde Cornelissen on the 19-year-old Jerich Parzival second on 76.725 per cent and Sweden's Juliette Ramel on Buriel, K.H. third on 73.413 per cent.
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