Ireland Olympic Pair of Judy Reynolds & Vancouver K Take Devon Word Cup Grand Prix, Jill Irving & Degas Log 2nd Straight Victory

Judy Reynolds and Vancouver K. © 2016 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

DEVON, Pennsylvania, Sept. 30, 2016–Ireland's Olympic partnership of Judy Reynolds and Vancouver K posted a personal best score to win the Dressage at Devon Grand Prix Friday night to kick off their campaign for a start in the World Cup Final in Omaha next year.

Judy and the 14-year-old KWPN gelding scored 75.660 per cent just a week after a pair of victories at the iconic Central Park Horse Show, the first competition in America for the pair that became the first from Ireland to make it through to the freestyle at an Olympics as they did in Rio de Janeiro last month.

Arlene “Tuny” Page of Wellington, Florida on Woodstock placed second on 73.360 per cent, also a personal best for the pair that campaigned in Europe for a place on the American Olympic team.

Canada's Olympic pair of Megan Lane and Caravella placed third on 71.980 per cent. Florida-based Denmark team pair of Mikala Gundersen and My Lady were fourth on 70.720 per cent.

Friday night's performance for the Germany-based Judy and the horse she has been competing at Big Tour since mid-2014, eclipsed their previous best Grand Prix score of 75.240 per cent set in June.

The World Cup Freestyle will be staged Saturday night and give Judy and Vancouver the opportunity to earn up to 20 points that she can take back to Europe to kick start her campaign for a start at the Final in Omaha next March. The intensely competitive Western European League of nine qualifiers in which she competes begins in October.

In the Grand Prix to qualify for the Special, Jill Irving rode her Degas to the second straight victory for the Canadian combination and with a personal best Grand Prix score.

Jill and the 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding that have been a Big Tour partnership for 3 1/2 years scored 69.600 per cent in the Grand Prix for the Special that surpassed their previous best Grand Prix result of 68.600 per cent at the Global Dressage Festival in Florida in January.

Jill and Degas posted their first ever win, capturing the World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle at Saugerties, New York with a personal best score a week ago.

Chase Hickok of Wellington on Sagacious HF were second on 68.220 per cent with Megan Lane on San D'Or third on 67.800 per cent.

Results:

CDI-W Grand Prix for Freestyle

E: De Wolff – NED

H: McDonald – USA

C: Fore – USA

M: Seefried – AUS

B: Halsall – GBR

		RIDER	Nat.	HORSE				E	Rk	H	Rk	C	Rk	M	Rk	B	Rk	Total	Pl
		Reynolds, Judy	IRL	Vancouver K				77.500	1	77.000	1	73.800	2	75.800	1	74.200	1	75.660	1
		Page, Arlene	USA	Woodstock				73.200	2	73.000	2	75.500	1	73.100	2	72.000	2	73.360	2
		Lane, Megan	CAN	Caravella				73.100	3	72.000	3	72.000	4	72.100	3	70.700	3	71.980	3
		Gundersen, Mikala	DEN	My Lady				69.600	4	70.700	4	73.200	3	70.200	4	69.900	4	70.720	4
		LaGoy-Weltz, Olivia	USA	Rassing's Lonoir				69.400	5	67.700	5	69.000	5	69.200	5	68.800	5	68.820	5
		Brooks, Jacqueline M.	CAN	D Niro				63.000	8	66.400	6	66.100	6	64.700	6	63.000	7	64.640	6
		Garweg, Christian	CAN	Delorean				63.600	6	63.800	7	63.400	7	61.300	8	66.700	6	63.760	7
		Strasser, Evi	CAN	Renaissance Tyme				63.400	7	61.700	9	63.300	8	61.800	7	62.200	8	62.480	8
		Jensen, Stephanie	CAN	Addiction				59.400	9	63.400	8	62.600	9	59.200	9	61.400	9	61.200	9

 

Grand Prix for Special

E: Seefried – AUS

H: Foy – USA

C: De Wolff – NED

M: Tissot – FRA

B: Hotz – USA

		RIDER	Nat.	HORSE				E	Rk	H	Rk	C	Rk	M	Rk	B	Rk	Total	#
		Irving, Jill	CAN	Degas 12				71.500	1	70.300	1	70.900	1	67.500	2	67.800	1	69.600	1
		Hickok, Chase	USA	Sagacious HF				67.700	3	68.600	2	69.700	2	67.800	1	67.300	2	68.220	2
		Lane, Megan	CAN	San D'Or				69.700	2	68.400	3	67.700	3	65.900	4	67.300	2	67.800	3
		Sprieser, Lauren	USA	Ellegria				66.800	4	65.800	4	66.400	5	66.200	3	65.700	4	66.180	4
		Noyes Putnam, Laura K	USA	Galveston				66.800	4	63.900	6	67.100	4	64.400	5	63.400	6	65.120	5
		Pugh, Abraham	USA	Elfenperfekt				62.800	6	65.300	5	66.100	6	61.500	6	65.500	5	64.240	6
		Barisone, Michael	USA	Wyatt Star				59.700	7	61.500	7	56.400	7	57.600	7	59.400	7	58.920	7

 

Madeleine Witte-Vrees & Cennin Win Mallorca CDI4* Grand Prix With Personal Best Score

Madeleine Witte-Vrees and Cennin. © 2016 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

SON PROHENS, Spain, Sept. 30, 2016–Madeleine Witte-Vrees of the Netherlands and Cennin won the Balearen Tour CDI4* Grand Prix Friday, logging a personal best score in their third victory since the nine-year-old KWPN stallion started Big Tour six months ago.

Madeleine and Cennin scored 74.240 per cent in their fifth Grand Prix.

German 2012 Olympic medal rider Helen Langehanenberg on Damsey FRH placed second on 71.020 per cent with Holland's Danielle Heijkoop on Badari third on 70.280 per cent.

Madeleine competed Cennin (Vivaldi x Donnerhall) at Small Tour in 2014 and 2015 before moving to Big Tour in March, logging two Freestyle victories before this Grand Prix win.

Results:

CDI4* Grand Prix

Placed competitors							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	45	Cennin	Witte-Vrees, Madeleine	NED		1000.00 EUR	373.5	366.0	364.5	382.5	369.5	1856.0 points
	chest 9y.S /Vivaldi/Donnerhall/KWPN/104MY84/ N.F. Witte & J.E.J. Cuppen						74.700 %	73.200 %	72.900 %	76.500 %	73.900 %	74.240 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	20	Damsey FRH	Langehanenberg, Helen	GER		750.00 EUR	354.0	359.0	341.5	355.5	365.5	1775.5 points
	bay 14y.S /Dressage Royal/Ritual/HANN/GER45558/ BG Leatherdale Farms						70.800 %	71.800 %	68.300 %	71.100 %	73.100 %	71.020 %
							2.	2.	11.	2.	3.
3.	16	Badari	Heijkoop, Danielle	NED		500.00 EUR	351.0	344.0	347.0	347.0	368.0	1757.0 points
	bay 10y.G /Gribaldi/Damocles/KWPN/103YY14/ D. Heijkoop						70.200 %	68.800 %	69.400 %	69.400 %	73.600 %	70.280 %
							3.	7.	6.	8.	2.
4.	7	Coroado	Caetano, Maria	POR		300.00 EUR	348.5	356.5	343.5	353.0	347.5	1749.0 points
	9y.S /Rubi/103VQ51/ Juan Manuel Cordeiro						69.700 %	71.300 %	68.700 %	70.600 %	69.500 %	69.960 %
							5.	3.	8.	4.	5.
5.	35	Long Drink	Steidle, Isabelle	GER		250.00 EUR	337.5	351.0	350.5	352.0	350.0	1741.0 points
	dbay 15y.G /Langenhagen/Concerto II/HOLST/103UJ26/ Sundag,Isabelle						67.500 %	70.200 %	70.100 %	70.400 %	70.000 %	69.640 %
							8.	5.	3.	5.	4.
6.	44	Rubins Nite	Watson-Greaves, Hayley	GBR		200.00 EUR	350.0	351.5	351.5	352.0	333.5	1738.5 points
	black 12y.G /Rubin-Royal/Limbo/103RB72/ Hayley Watson – Greaves						70.000 %	70.300 %	70.300 %	70.400 %	66.700 %	69.540 %
							4.	4.	2.	5.	9.
7.	24	DSP Rodriguez	Neumayer, Astrid	AUT		100.00 EUR	335.5	346.5	349.5	355.0	332.0	1718.5 points
	dbay 16y.G /Rubinstern Noir/Gaspari II/103VJ26/ Astrid Neumayer						67.100 %	69.300 %	69.900 %	71.000 %	66.400 %	68.740 %
							10.	6.	4.	3.	10.
8.	21	Star Wars	Liegard, Bertrand	FRA		100.00 EUR	339.5	335.5	347.5	352.0	326.5	1701.0 points
	bay 14y.G /Show Star/Rosenkavalier/SCSL/103GH88/ Liegard Bertrand						67.900 %	67.100 %	69.500 %	70.400 %	65.300 %	68.040 %
							7.	9.	5.	5.	13.
Other, non-placed competitors
9.	38	Isac	Telde, Minna	SWE			345.0	337.0	337.0	343.5	337.5	1700.0 points
	bay 11y.G /Hip Hop/Master/SWB/102ZW12/ Ekeslund Holding AB						69.000 %	67.400 %	67.400 %	68.700 %	67.500 %	68.000 %
							6.	8.	13.	9.	6.
10.	34	Romeo-Star	Sidneva, Elena	RUS			337.5	335.5	342.0	329.0	336.5	1680.5 points
	bay 15y.S /Romantic Star/Mister A/HANN/RUS40441/ Dmitrieva L.&sidneva E.						67.500 %	67.100 %	68.400 %	65.800 %	67.300 %	67.220 %
							8.	9.	10.	11.	7.
11.	15	Bellagio	Hannes, Jeroen	BEL			328.5	329.5	344.0	321.5	324.0	1647.5 points
	bay 15y.G /Don renoir/Donnerhall/BWP/104VF01/ Haenen Lynne						65.700 %	65.900 %	68.800 %	64.300 %	64.800 %	65.900 %
							11.	11.	7.	15.	14.
12.	2	Girasol 7	Barbançon Mestre, Morgan	ESP			319.0	326.5	338.0	331.5	330.5	1645.5 points
	chest 15y.M /Gribaldi/Landioso/102UM07/ Morgan Barbancon Mestre						63.800 %	65.300 %	67.600 %	66.300 %	66.100 %	65.820 %
							13.	12.	12.	10.	11.
13.	30	Wobelisk	Reija, Laura	ESP			318.0	323.5	343.0	327.0	323.0	1634.5 points
	bay 13y.S /Obelisk/Gribaldi/KWPN/102NC46/ Laura Reija Belart						63.600 %	64.700 %	68.600 %	65.400 %	64.600 %	65.380 %
							14.	15.	9.	13.	15.
14.	3	Sir Donnerhall II Old	Barbançon Mestre, Morgan	ESP			327.5	324.5	323.5	318.5	335.0	1629.0 points
	dbay 10y.S /Sandro Hit/Donnerhall/OLDBG/103RO36/ Nyreroed,Henrik & Kloy,Sabine						65.500 %	64.900 %	64.700 %	63.700 %	67.000 %	65.160 %
							12.	14.	16.	16.	8.
15.	1	Goerklintgaards Fanero	Aamann, Lena Leschly	DEN			317.5	315.5	330.0	328.5	328.0	1619.5 points
	black 13y.S /Ferro/Le Mont-H/DWB/103YT12/ Lena Leschly Åmand						63.500 %	63.100 %	66.000 %	65.700 %	65.600 %	64.780 %
							15.	16.	14.	12.	12.
16.	31	Dubai King	Segui Sintes, Rafael	ESP			311.5	325.5	324.5	326.5	303.0	1591.0 points
	chest 11y.S /Don Picardi/104FF93/ Rafael Segui Sintes						62.300 %	65.100 %	64.900 %	65.300 %	60.600 %	63.640 %
							16.	13.	15.	14.	16.
17.	14	Roberto Des Frettes	Haid Bondergaard, Charlotte	SWE			304.0	313.0	302.5	310.5	296.0	1526.0 points
	bay 11y.G /Carinho des Noes/Boulou des Frettes/103VX18/ Björn Haid,Mathias Haid &						60.800 %	62.600 %	60.500 %	62.100 %	59.200 %	61.040 %
							17.	17.	17.	17.	17.

Data of competition:
Judges:	(E)	R.Saleh (FRA)			Total prize money:	€3200
	(H)	K.Wüst (GER)
	(C)	F.Guerra (ESP)
	(M)	M.Alonso (MEX)
	(B)	J.van Daele (BEL)

Sweden's Karin Persson & Giuliano B Devon 5-Year-Old Champion

Karin Persson and Giuliano B. © 2016 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

DEVON, Pennsylvania, Sept. 29, 2016–Giuliano B, ridden by American-based Swedish rider Karin Persson won the five-year-old final Thursday while Silva Martin on Jada W was reserve as well as taking the four-year-old test on Electric.

Karin, based at Bedford, New York, and the KWPN gelding scored 82.000 per cent. The horse was reserve champion at the U.S. Young Horse championships a month ago.

Silva of nearby Cochranville was second on Jada W, an Australian-bred mare, on 81.200 per cent.

Silva, born in Germany but living in Australia when she met her husband, event rider Boyd Martin, before moving to the United States and becoming an American, won the four-year-old test on the Oldenburg gelding Electric on 79.400 per cent.

Results:

5-Year-Old – Final

C: Fore, Seefried, Foy

		RIDER	Nat.	HORSE														Total	Pl.
		Persson, Karin	SWE	Giuliano B														82.000	1
		Martin, Silva	USA	Jada W														81.200	2
		Hay, Bridget	USA	Fauna														77.800	3
		Garweg, Christian	CAN	Chancellor														72.000	4
		Whittaker, Harley	USA	Jax W														71.200	5
		Mendoza Loor, Julio	ECU	Beaucoup Damis														69.600	6
		Schengber, Klaus	USA	Radcliffe														66.400	0

 

4 Year Old Test

C: Fore, Seefried, Foy

		RIDER	Nat.	HORSE														Total	Pl.
		Martin, Silva	USA	Electric														79.400	1
		Chumley, Lauren	USA	Sergenti														77.400	2
		Noyes Putnam, Laura K	USA	Genoa														75.400	3
		Emond, Emily	USA	Honaloola														72.400	4
		Bragdell, Michael	USA	David Bowie MF														71.800	5
		Chumley, Lauren	USA	Hotstreak CF														71.400	6
		Pullen, Kymberly	USA	ZZ's Flashdancer														70.000
		Albright, Benjamin	USA	Joyful Hope														68.000
		Lemon, William	USA	Viyella														67.000