Jose Daniel Martin Dockx & Grandioso Win Grand Prix Freestyle for Sweep of Madrid CDI3*

Jose Daniel Martin Dockx on Grandioso. © Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

MADRID, Nov. 29, 2015–Jose Daniel Martin Dockx rode Grandioso, his Spanish team Olympic and championship stallion, to victory in the CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle Sunday a day after capturing the Grand Prix to repeat a sweep in Madrid six months ago.

Dani and the 16-year-old P.R.E. stallion owned by Hampton Green Farm of Wellington, Florida scored 77.550 per cent.

Spanish team mate and European Championship bronze medal rider Beatriz Ferrer-Salat on Sir Radjah placed second on 76.000 per cent and Claudio Castilla Ruiz on Alcaide third on 73.000 per cent for the same of finish of the top three in the Grand Prix a day earlier.

Results:

CDI3* GRAND PRIX FREESTYLE								(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	0412	Grandioso	Martin Dockx,Jose Daniel	ESP		2.537,00 EUR	A:	74.250 %	78.500 %	75.500 %	74.000 %	75.250 %	77.550 %
	bay / 16y. / S / Adelante / Sevillano IX / USA40633						B:	79.000 %	82.000 %	78.000 %	80.000 %	79.000 %
							Total:	76.625 % (1)	80.250 % (1)	76.750 % (1)	77.000 % (1)	77.125 % (2)
2.	0410	Sir Radjah	Ferrer – Salat,Beatriz	ESP		2.037,00 EUR	A:	73.000 %	75.000 %	74.000 %	72.000 %	75.000 %	76.000 %
	bay / 10y. / G / Sir Donnerhall / Radjah Z / 102QV13						B:	74.000 %	82.000 %	77.000 %	78.000 %	80.000 %
							Total:	73.500 % (2)	78.500 % (2)	75.500 % (2)	75.000 % (2)	77.500 % (1)
3.	0406	Alcaide	Castilla Ruiz,Claudio	ESP		1.537,00 EUR	A:	69.500 %	73.500 %	71.500 %	67.750 %	74.750 %	73.000 %
	chest / 10y. / S / Lobito / 103DW31						B:	72.000 %	74.000 %	75.000 %	74.000 %	78.000 %
							Total:	70.750 % (4)	73.750 % (3)	73.250 % (3)	70.875 % (5)	76.375 % (3)
4.	0404	Robinson de Lafont de Massa	Serre,Arnaud	FRA		1.037,00 EUR	A:	65.500 %	71.250 %	68.500 %	70.500 %	71.000 %	71.475 %
	bay / 10y. / S / Maestro / Opus 72 / 103MT62						B:	70.000 %	73.000 %	74.000 %	73.000 %	78.000 %
							Total:	67.750 % (9)	72.125 % (4)	71.250 % (6)	71.750 % (4)	74.500 % (4)
5.	0400	Ben Hur Da Broa	Veiga,Manuel	POR		736,00 EUR	A:	68.500 %	68.500 %	69.500 %	69.000 %	70.750 %	71.125 %
	grey / 9y. / S / Quinteiro Da Broa / Universo / 103GG84						B:	72.000 %	72.000 %	73.000 %	75.000 %	73.000 %
							Total:	70.250 % (6)	70.250 % (6)	71.250 % (6)	72.000 % (3)	71.875 % (5)
6.	0407	Sir Schiwago	Garcia Mena,José Antonio	ESP		586,00 EUR	A:	67.500 %	68.250 %	69.750 %	66.250 %	71.500 %	70.325 %
	bay / 9y. / G / Sir Donnerhall / Lanciano / 104KB38						B:	73.000 %	73.000 %	73.000 %	70.000 %	71.000 %
							Total:	70.250 % (6)	70.625 % (5)	71.375 % (4)	68.125 % (8)	71.250 % (6)
7.	0409	Altaneiro	Martin Palos,Sergio	ESP		436,00 EUR	A:	69.750 %	68.750 %	69.250 %	67.250 %	65.000 %	69.800 %
	bay / 10y. / S / Altivo / 104UJ67						B:	75.000 %	71.000 %	73.000 %	69.000 %	70.000 %
							Total:	72.375 % (3)	69.875 % (7)	71.125 % (7)	68.125 % (8)	67.500 % (8)
8.	0401	Der Clou	Canelas,Filipe	POR		336,00 EUR	A:	67.000 %	67.250 %	68.500 %	67.250 %	65.750 %	67.975 %
	bay / 16y. / S / De Niro / Matcho Aa / POR40311						B:	68.000 %	69.000 %	70.000 %	71.000 %	66.000 %
							Total:	67.500 % (10)	68.125 % (9)	69.250 % (8)	69.125 % (6)	65.875 % (10)
9.	0408	Dubai King	Segui Sintes,Rafael	ESP		336,00 EUR	A:	66.750 %	67.250 %	66.750 %	64.250 %	68.000 %	67.800 %
	chest / 10y. / S / Don Picardi / 104FF93						B:	70.000 %	69.000 %	69.000 %	68.000 %	69.000 %
							Total:	68.375 % (8)	68.125 % (9)	67.875 % (9)	66.125 % (10)	68.500 % (7)
10.	0414	Tribaldi	Khamidoulin Pastora,Cristina	ESP		286,00 EUR	A:	68.250 %	65.250 %	65.500 %	63.750 %	66.000 %	67.075 %
	chest / 15y. / G / Gribaldi / Vanitas / ESP40921						B:	70.000 %	67.000 %	68.000 %	69.000 %	68.000 %
							Total:	69.125 % (7)	66.125 % (10)	66.750 % (10)	66.375 % (9)	67.000 % (9)
11.	0405	Quality Gold del Ramillete	Martinez Fernandez,Rosa Maria	ESP		136,00 EUR	A:	59.500 %	59.750 %	62.500 %	62.500 %	61.750 %	62.400 %
	chest / 16y. / S / Quattro B / 104JO66						B:	65.000 %	65.000 %	63.000 %	63.000 %	62.000 %
							Total:	62.250 % (11)	62.375 % (11)	62.750 % (11)	62.750 % (11)	61.875 % (11)

Judges: (E)  Francisco Guerra Diaz (ESP) (H)  Freddy Leymann (BEL) (C)  Juan Carlos Campos Escribano (ESP) (M)  Leif Tornblad (DEN) (B)  Peter Holler (GER)	Prize money: €10000

Hans Peter Minderhoud & Flirt Post Personal Best to Capture Stockholm World Cup Freestyle

Hans Peter Minderhoud and Glock’s Flirt. 2015 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 29, 2015–Hans Peter Minderhoud rode Glock’s Flirt to a personal best score of 80.950 per cent and the first Freestyle victory for the Dutch partnership to capture the Sweden International World Cup Grand Prix musical performance Sunday.

Sweden’s Olympic combination of Patrik Kittel and Watermill Scandic were runner up on 79.100 per cent while former world No. 1 and two-time World Cup champions Adelinde Cornelissen on Jerich Parzival were third on 78.775 per cent for their first Freestyle score below 80 per cent in six years.

Patrik Kittel moved to the top of the World Cup Western European League standings with 54 points after their runner up placing in Sunday’s Freestyle that was the fourth in nine WEL qualifying competitions for the Final in Gothenburg, Sweden next March.

Patrik said that Scandic at 16 years of age “feels better than he did when he was 10, which is great! And he will still be in the game next year too, and in the Final in Gothenburg if we qualify.”

Fabienne Lütkemeier moved up to fourth and the highest placed from Germany while Hans Peter’s victory moved him up into the seventh spot. Denmark’s Agnete Kirk Thinggaard was tied in eighth place with 28 points, Jennie Larsson of Sweden 10th on 27 and Australia’s Lyndal Oatley in 11th on 26 points.

The previous best Freestyle result for Hans Peter and Flirt, that have been competing together for less than 18 months and are ranked No. 13 in the world, was  80.450 per cent posted at Rotterdam in June. This was the first competition for Hans Peter and the 14-year-old Swiss Warmblood gelding since then.

“He had no real weak points in his test today,” he said, “from the beginning to the end he was completely with me, nicely supple and super on the aids. I had a great feeling, he was really trying for me but I had a small mistake in the one-tempis. I re-did them really well though, and the rest of the test was really good.”

Hans Peter said he had been encouraged by the sight of the winner’s prize. “When I saw the orange car in the corner of the arena I thought, ‘Hey, a Dutch person should win that!’… and this is the first car I’ve ever won!”

Adelinde was competing the 18-year-old Parzival–to be officially 19 years old in a month–for only the second time this year. Adelinde and Parzival, at No. 378 in the world, last scored below 80 per cent in a Freestyle in December, 2009. Since then, however, the pair have performed in 36 Freestyles all with scores above 80 per cent.

Adelinde Cornelissen on Jerich Parzival at Stockholm.

The 36-year-old Dutch rider said afterwards that she had “mixed feelings” about her result.

“I’m happy that Parzival was here and going well,” she said. “He was great in the warm-up but he felt a bit tired in the arena. We have not been competing for a long time, so we need to find a suitable routine again for both of us.”

For Lyndal Oatley and Sandro Boy who placed sixth in the Freestyle, their score of 75.425 per cent was below their personal best but close to this year’s top result and came a day after the German-based combination posted the highest Grand Prix score ever by an Australian rider.

Results:

CDI-W Grand Prix Freestyle

Judges:   B: Ghislain Fouarge    M: Susanne Baarup    C: Gustav Svalling    H: Isabelle Judet           E: Magnus Ringmark

#			Rider	Horse		E	H	C	M	B	Total
1			Hans Peter Minderhoud	Glock’s Flirt Florestan – Gauguin de LullyIng. Gaston Glock		76.25084.00080.125 1	79.25081.00080.125 3	80.25083.00081.625  1	77.00084.00080.5001	79.750 85.00082.375 1	78.500 83.400 80.950
2			Patrik Kittel	Watermill Scandic H.B.C Solos Carex DVH 609 – Amiral ZW.P.S.J.W. Greve & HBC Stal		75.00083.00079.0003	80.00083.00081.500 1	77.750 80.00078.875   2	75.00084.00079.5003	74.250 79.000 76.625   3	76.400 81.800 79.100
3			Adelinde Cornelissen	Jerich Parzival N.O.P. Jazz – UlftW.P.J. Cornelissen / M.A. Cornelissen, H. Jerich		77.50082.00079.750 2	77.250 83.00080.125   2	75.750 78.00076.875   4	76.50083.00079.750 2	74.750 80.00077.375   2	76.350 81.200 78.775
4			Agnete Kirk Thinggaard	Jojo Az Ginus – JustboyJoachim E. Arl		74.750 78.00076.375   4	75.500 78.00076.750   6	74.750 80.00077.375  3	76.00082.00079.0004	71.750 76.000 73.875 6	74.55078.800 76.675
5			Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Paridon Magi Don Primero 981 – Napoleon 625Lövsta Stuteri AB		71.500 77.000 74.250 7	75.500 79.000 77.250 5	71.500 77.000 74.250 7	72.75080.00076.375 5	73.500 78.000 75.750  5	72.950 78.20075.575
6			Lyndal Oatley	Sandro Boy 9 Sandro Hit – ArgentinusCarol & Andrew Oatley		72.250 75.00073.625 9	76.00080.00078.0004	73.250 77.000 75.125  5	72.250 76.00074.125 7	74.500 78.000 76.250 4	73.650 77.200 75.425
7			Fabienne Lütkemeier	Qui Vincit Dynamis Quattro B – Calypso IIGina Capellmann-Lütkemeier		73.00076.00074.5006	73.500 77.000 75.250 8	72.500 75.000 73.750 9	71.750 77.00074.375 6	70.250 75.000 72.625 10	72.200 76.00074.100
8			Paulinda Friberg	di Lapponia T Donnerhall – ArgumentPaulinda Friberg		72.250 76.00074.125 8	73.750 77.000 75.375  7	72.250 76.000 74.125 8	71.500 76.00073.7508	69.000 74.000 71.500 12	71.750 75.800 73.775
9			Jennie Larsson	Zircoon Spring Flower Painted Black – ArmstrongAntonia Ax:son Johnson		71.000 73.00072.000 12	73.250 76.00074.625 9	72.750 76.00074.375 6	70.50076.00073.2509	72.000 75.000 73.500 7	71.900 75.200 73.550
10			Emilie Nyreröd	Miata Lancado – GrascoEmilie Nyreröd		73.500 76.000 74.750  5	72.00075.00073.500 10	71.250 74.00072.625 11	70.50075.00072.750 12	70.500 76.000 73.250 8	71.550 75.200 73.375
11			Mads Hendeliowitz	Jimmie Choo Seq Sandro Hit – Don SchufroSegersta Equestrian		71.750 74.000 72.875 10	72.00075.00073.500 10	71.750 75.00073.375 10	72.00074.00073.00011	69.250 75.000 72.125 11	71.350 74.600 72.975
12			Kristian von Krusenstierna	Biggles 1015 Briar – KrevadFam. Ingrid Lundbergpersson		67.000 71.000 69.000 14	71.250 73.00072.125 12	69.250 72.00070.625 14	69.50074.00071.750 13	70.750 75.000 72.875  9	69.550 73.000 71.275
13			Inna Logutenkova	Don Gregorius Don Cardinale – PlacidoLLC VIAN – GROUP		70.000 74.000 72.000 11	70.250 72.00071.125 13	69.250 74.00071.625 12	67.50072.00069.750 14	68.500 73.000 70.750 13	69.100 73.000 71.050
14			Cathrine Rasmussen	Fernandez Florestan – WeinburgCathrine Rasmussen, Christopher Bredstrup Rasmussen		67.250 72.000 69.625 13	69.00070.00069.500 14	69.00073.00071.000 13	71.000 75.00073.000 10	67.250 69.00068.125 14	68.700 71.800 70.250
15			Claudia Dorpmans	Tin Tin Claudia Dorpmans		62.250 69.00065.625 15	63.750 65.00064.375 15	64.50068.00066.250 15	66.750 70.00068.375 15	63.500 67.000 65.250 15	64.150 67.80065.975

Hans Peter & Flirt Win Stockholm World Cup Grand Prix, Adelinde & Parzival Runnerup

Hans Peter Minderhoud on Glock’s Flirt. © 2015 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 28, 2015–Hans Peter Minderhoud and Glock’s Flirt narrowly beat their Netherlands team mate Adelinde Cornelissen on Jerich Parzival in the World Cup Grand Prix at the Sweden International Horse Show Saturday.

Hans Peter and 14-year-old Swiss Warmblood gelding scored 77.000 per cent for the win in their first competition since Rotterdam in June where they posted their best Grand Prix result so far of 77.140 per cent. The pair won the Grand Prix here a year ago, the only previous victory in 17 months of their partnership.

Adelinde, also competing Parzival for only the second time this year, received scores that differed by almost eight percentage points for a total of 76.720 per cent for second place and a month before the KWPN gelding turns 19 years old.

The pair received the highest mark of 80.300 per cent from Denmark’s Susanne Baarup at C, 78.100 and 78.500 from Magnus Ringmark and Gustav Svalling, respectively, from Sweden but 72.800 from Isabelle Judet of France and  73.900 from Ghislain Fouarge of the Netherlands.

Patrik Kittel, the Swedish team Olympian, rode Watermill Scandic to third place on 76.180 per cent.

Denmark’s Agnete Kirk Thinggaard and Jojo AZ placed fourth with a personal best score of 74.200 per cent, surpassing their previous Grand Prix high of 73.040 per cent at Lyon, France a year ago. As well as seeking a start at the World Cup Final, Agnete is also seeking to be one of three Danish combinations to qualify as individuals and thus able to form a team for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next summer.

Lyndal Oatley and Sandro Boy, a 14-year-old Oldenburg gelding, also posted the highest CDI Grand Prix score ever by an Australian, 72.800 per cent. Their previous best was 72.680 per cent posted at Deauville, France in July, 2014. Lyndal began riding Sandro Boy, owned by her parents, in 2011. She was on the Australian team at the Olympics in London in 2012 and the World Games in Normandy last year.

Adelinde and Parzival, in their only previous performance this year, were awarded 74.420 per cent in the Grand Prix at Rotterdam in June that was the lowest Grand Prix score for the duo in six years. In between, Adelinde and Parzival won multiple Olympic and championship medals and were ranked No. 1 in the world.

The declining results led to Adelinde being informed she and Parzival would no longer be on the Netherlands’ elite squad from which the country’s top teams are selected. Their last championship was the World Games in Normandy in the summer of 2014.

Results:

CDI-W Grand Prix

 B:Gustav Svalling  M:Magnus Ringmark  C:Susanne Baarup  H:Ghislain Fouarge   E:Isabelle Judet

Rank			Rider	Horse		E	H	C	M	B	Total
1			Hans Peter Minderhoud	Glock’s FlirtFlorestan – Gauguin de LullyIng. Gaston Glock		75.200 1	78.100  1	76.500 3	76.200 3	79.000  1	77.000
2			Adelinde Cornelissen	Jerich Parzival N.O.P.Jazz – UlftW.P.J. Cornelissen / M.A. Cornelissen, H. Jerich		72.8004	73.900 3	80.3001	78.100  1	78.500 2	76.720
3			Patrik Kittel	Watermill Scandic H.B.CSolos Carex DVH 609 – Amiral ZW.P.S.J.W. Greve & HBC Stal		74.6003	75.300 2	78.2002	77.500 2	75.300 4	76.180
4			Agnete Kirk Thinggaard	Jojo AzGinus – JustboyJoachim E. Arl		74.8002	73.300 4	73.700 4	73.600 4	75.600 3	74.200
5			Lyndal Oatley	Sandro Boy 9Sandro Hit – ArgentinusCarol & Andrew Oatley		71.100 6	73.200 6	72.6007	73.200 6	73.900 6	72.800
6			Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén	Paridon MagiDon Primero 981 – Napoleon 625Lövsta Stuteri AB		71.000 7	73.000  7	71.500 9	73.300 5	74.600  5	72.680
7			Mads Hendeliowitz	Jimmie Choo SeqSandro Hit – Don SchufroSegersta Equestrian		70.3009	71.300 8	73.2006	70.0009	73.000  7	71.560
8			Fabienne Lütkemeier	Qui Vincit DynamisQuattro B – Calypso IIGina Capellmann-Lütkemeier		70.9008	70.200 9	72.0008	71.000 8	71.800 8	71.180
Not placed
9			Paulinda Friberg	di Lapponia TDonnerhall – ArgumentPaulinda Friberg		72.100 5	69.600 11	71.200 10	71.200 7	71.000 10	71.020
10			Jennie Larsson	Zircoon Spring FlowerPainted Black – ArmstrongAntonia Ax:son Johnson		69.90010	73.300 4	70.70011	69.80010	69.800 12	70.700
11			Emilie Nyreröd	MiataLancado – GrascoEmilie Nyreröd		67.700 14	68.600 12	73.3005	68.20012	71.000 10	69.760
12			Kristian von Krusenstierna	Biggles 1015Briar – KrevadFam. Ingrid Lundbergpersson		68.50012	69.800 10	69.100 13	68.20012	71.500 9	69.420
13			Cathrine Rasmussen	FernandezFlorestan – WeinburgCathrine Rasmussen, Christopher Bredstrup Rasmussen		68.90011	66.800 15	70.40012	68.50011	69.400 13	68.800
14			Claudia Dorpmans	Tin TinClaudia Dorpmans		66.30015	66.200 17	68.50014	64.20017	67.800 14	66.600
15			Inna Logutenkova	Don GregoriusDon Cardinale – PlacidoLLC VIAN – GROUP		68.40013	67.700 13	65.100 18	64.500 15	67.100 15	66.560
16			Charlotte Haid BondergaardInsjöns Ridklubb	Triviant 2Olivi – SaluutNorrehee Dressage Björn & Mathias Haid		65.60016	66.400 16	66.90015	65.900 14	66.100 16	66.180
17			Hasse Hoffmann	Heslegaards RismonHeslegård’s Rubin – Heslegårds LouisHeslegård Stutteri I/s		65.40017	67.100 14	66.50016	64.500 15	65.300 17	65.760
18			Thamar Zweistra	Hexagons BanderasRadetzky – Matador Ii 53 3366Stal Hexagon & L.A. van Lieren		64.70018	63.400 18	66.40017	63.00018	62.200 19	63.940
19			Dina Ellermann	Landy S AkvarelLandcruiser – Noble ChampionDina Ellermann & Genofen Ltd		59.80020	61.900 20	63.100 19	61.600 19	63.00018	61.880
20			Daniel Bachmann	Blue Hors LoxanaDiamond Hit – ArgentinusBlue Hors Aps		61.500 19	63.200 19	62.30020	60.40020	61.800 20	61.840

Lyndal Oatley & Sandro Boy Post Highest Ever Australian CDI Grand Prix Score

Lyndal Oatley and Sandro Boy. File photo © Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

Lyndal Oatley rode Sandro Boy to the highest ever Grand Prix score for an Australian international combination when the pair were awarded 72.800 per cent at the Sweden International Horse Show World Cup Saturday.

The score to place Lyndal and the 14-year-old Oldenburg gelding fifth beat their previous best of 72.680 per cent, and the previous high result for an Australian, at Deauville, France in July, 2014 that was a qualifier for the Australian team at the World Games in Normandy.

The 35-year-old Lyndal who is based in Germany with her Swedish Olympic team rider husband Patrik Kittel, began riding Sandro Boy, owned by her parents, in 2011. The pair were on the Australian team at the Olympics in London in 2012.

“We are constantly learning what we can do better,” said Lyndal who is seeking to ride for Australia at the World Cup Final in Gothenburg, Sweden next March.

“Patrik is, as always, putting his heart and soul into developing us and I am so fortunate for this.

“We have been flirting with this higher score for a while so it is nice to put in a soft, smooth and accurate test in a crowd atmosphere.”

She told dressage-news.com that Patrik helped her warm up until the last minute when he had to prepare for his ride on Watermill Scandic.

Mads Hendeliowitz, another Swedish rider who had already ridden and is familiar with Sandro Boy, then stepped in to help.

And unusual for Lyndal she had her own groom that allowed her to prepare properly for the ride.

“Sandro Boy needs quite a specific plan to prepare for a show before I ride with peeling and walking,” she said, “and when all this falls into place then we can do our best. Today was such a day.”

She was also lucky. she said, as Kyra (Kyrklund, the Swedish team coach and who has worked with Lyndal, “has really installed some great fundamentals with me. I think about it often and it’s so lovely to have her always around to bounce off ideas and talk details. I am very lucky for that.”