Blue Hors Zack and Daniel Bachmann Andersen for Denmark - photo credit: Lily Forado
Denmark and the Danish team needed a strong and solid test for keeping the team into the medal positions, and Daniel and Zack delivered.
Today with extraordinary 2 times, super nice extensions and smooth half passes, good passage, halts were lacking more balance and were not square, and the for piaffe tours you could wish for more obedience from Zack today, he was not really trying his best today. That fact also kept them away from breaking the 80% barrier, but still lot of over all qualities and a very valuable score for the Danish team. Cathrine Dufour and Atterupgaards Cassidy are last for the Danes to go.
🇩🇰 Blue Hors Zack / Daniel Bachmann Andersen - open halt, good forward, super nice extended trot with good expression, supple half pass right, good transition, supple left uphill, good halt with nice rein back, good extension, nice back into passage, small hesitation for 1st piaffe travelling bit forward, good expression for passage, good transitions, good walk tour, direct into passage, very much forward 2nd piaffe, good transition to canter, WOW 2 times must be a 10!, super extended canter, active zigzag with super quality, top nice 1 times, super sit for pirouettes bit big, good transition to trot, smooth extended trot, super passage, very nice final centerline - SUPER test!
Spains Claudio Castilla Ruiz and Alcaide delivered a good test with some minor issues. Today the piaffe felt a bit weaker as we’ve seen it earlier, as the rhythm became some kind of to slow today.
Portugals new star Equador with young Joao Miguel Torrao showed again some nice riding, today with some technical issues which kept them away from the better half of the field.