Cathrine Dufour again at top of the podium with Bohemian.
Opening leg of the new World Cup season with come crowd favourite victory
Everyone was blown away after yesterday’s outstanding performance from the young Danish combination, and today they did not disappoint their come crowd.
Lovely flow and power for their freestyle, and again the judges were ready to reward them. And today the audience were respectfully waiting with the applause until the final halt.
Benjamin Werndl and Daily Mirror were shining again today with a powerful and supple test, and today’s piaffe tours were much more settled than for the Grand Prix. Well deserved 2nd place.
Helen Langehanenberg and her 17-year-old Damsey FRH were showing a strong test, but for some moments the final motivation from Damsey was somewhat limited and at the end he becomes very strong in the contact.
Today’s 4th place was another 9 year old horse, Danish Warmblood mare Fiontini with Severo Jurado Lopez, showing a strong test with just a minor issue for the final of the one times. The margins for the results were today in favour of Helen and Damsey with just a difference of 0,040%. The harmony and obedience was clearly a 3rd place worth for Severo and Fiontini today.
Daniel and Zack was not really rocking together today, as Zack was not really in the mood for the piaffe tours. There also crept in an error for the series. And it was a clearly disappointed Daniel leaving the arena, but still scoring 80.485% which is a really impressive score.
H2R comments during the tests:
Bohemian 🇩🇰 - super halt tiny backwards trend, lovely passage/piaffe work, clock work piaffe and transitions, good walk, tiny double pirouette with huge sit, dropping pole slightly for 2 times, take self change between canter half passes, super double pirouette, nice 1 times, wauw piaffe pirouette, super final. Audience on their feet again!
Daily Mirror GER - super strong test, lots of suppleness and a pleasure to watch. Much better piaffe tours today than in the GP.
Damsey FRH GER - resting hind for entering halt, lack balance half pass to left, lot of nice things but lacking bit more lightness, looks a bit hard work for Helen, at the end of the test loosing the collection and attention today.
Fiontini ESP - super supple trot tour, lovely passage, good piaffe tour, power extensions, super walk tour, strong canter tour with high degree of difficulty, 2 times on curved track, lovely ability to do smaller steps for pirouettes, small error at the end of one times, bit tensions for final transition to piaffe. Standing ovation for the "Danish" star Severo.
See the full results here.
