Championship mood
Impressive lineup for today’s World Cup Grand Prix at Jumping Amsterdam.
Top 3 (H2R comments during the tests)
Watch out Werth when Dujardin is able to polish the piaffe tours a bit more she will pass you and Weihe.
Today’s test from Werth was kind of building up for the final, when getting into the canter tour she just build up for the final with a very strong canter tour, and finishing this part with superb pirouettes, and then doing a final centerline with outstanding qualities.
Weihegold OLD GER - good halt, conservative diagonal, half pass right lack bit more forward flow, left good, super halt with rein back, good diagonal, sharp into passage, smooth piaffe and transitions, bit unbalanced walk tour, nice transition to passage, super passage, nice piaffe but not with same sit as usual, good into canter, good 2 times, super extended canter, good zigzag, good 1 times, SUPERB 1st pirouette, very nice 2nd pirouette, good transition to trot, limited extension at diagonal, 🔥FIRE ON THE GROUND final centerline.
MSJ Freestyle GBR - good halt, POWER balanced diagonal, well balanced half passes, super halt with rein back, WAUW diagonal, smooth passage, tiny double beat step for 1st piaffe, good passage, super walk tour good relaxed extended walk, good transition to passage, 9-10 steps for 2nd piaffe, good transition to canter, nice 2 times, super extended canter, WAUW zigzag, error hind end of 1 times, bit turn for 1st pirouette, much better balance and control 2nd pirouette, good into trot, power diagonal, super passage, bit two tempi of final piaffe.
Desperado NED - nice halt, power expressive diagonal, good half passes but lack more bending left, bit tense rein back, good extension, good transition to passage, good piaffe, bit tension hind passage, super walk tour, good transition to passage, good 2nd piaffe nice activity, good transitions, nice transition to canter, big 2 times, power extended canter lovely coming back change over the hind quarters, good zigzag, tension hind for 1 times bit crop high, super control and sit for both pirouettes, good transition to trot, power diagonal, very nice and smooth final.
Impressive motivation and strong Dutch performances
Common for the three stallions at start for The Netherlands were top motivation today. Danish Warmblood stallion Glock´s Zonik was showing his best performance ever together with Edward Gal. Very nice piaffe tours with good transition and expressive passage, the overall picture was with clearly improved go and flow and obedience.
Hans Peter Minderhoud and Glock´s Dream Boy really went for it today, unfortunately with a few mistakes but still lots of power and expression all the way.
And Emmelie Scholtens and Desperado were also on fire with a very strong test without any technical issues.
For Adelinde Cornelissen with Zephyr it was also an improved test when watching the piaffe tours, as this exercise has been their weak point.
British Fry showed a very strong performance together with KWPN stallion Everdale, superb 1st piaffe AT THE SPOT, lots of expression and power without any technical issues, unfortunately the final centerline looked a bit like Fry was lacking a bit focus herself.
Sönke Rothenberger was at start with 12 year old Santiano R by San Amour/Lord Sinclair. Back in April last year they’ve made their international debut at Nieuw en Sint Joosland, and then they were at start in Wiesbaden, and later in September made their World Cup debut at Budapest. They showed a good test where Sönke is able to manage the not so strong piaffe tours in a very nice way.
Danish Lone Bang Larsen with Bakkely´s Onandt showed an error free test, unfortunately starting with a very tense entering halt, but from there a nice well performed test. They are also ready among the 15 combinations for the freestyle.
See the entire results here.