Atterupgaards Cassidy - Photo: @FEI-tv screen shot
From yesterday with some technical issue till today with two minor errors for the series
The entire Scandinavium spectators were behind Dufour and Cassidy from entering to leaving the arena today, and from yesterday’s price giving you were not in doubt that the Swedish enthusiastic audience really love the Danish combination, and felt sorry for their very unfortunate performance in the Grand Prix.
New day, new competition, new result this agenda was for sure clear for Dufour today, and she performed with usual power, harmony, difficulty, and lightness, just with two smaller errors at the beginning of both series, of which she repeated with her joker line, with first a clear line of two times going direkte into a clear line of one times 💪🏻.
87,860% Atterupgaards Cassidy DEN - good halt, good passage, piaffe, passage, super diagonal extended trot (some of us holding the breath), strong passage/trot half passes, super full turn piaffe, super extended trot again, super passage / trot, super walk tour, super mood going into canter tour, power canter and pirouette, error hind 2 times begin, nice canter half passes, super extended canter to double pirouette, error begin of 1 times tension hind, super line with 2 times going into 1 times (must be her jokerline) applauding enthusiastic audience for the final steps.
Entered to the lyrics "I won't never give up...."
86,170% Daily Mirror GER - starting out in canter immediately into canter pirouette with small lost of balance, good 2 times on curved track, nice canter half passes, super line of 1 times on curved track, very difficult and demanding choreography for the canter tour, superb extended walk, bouncy dancing floating extended trot, nice expressive passage into nice piaffe with good balance and good sit, supple half pass right uphill super crossing, smooth to the left, Benjamin is challenging Daily Mirror for the piaffe tours but superb successful, and again superb diagonal, never seen Daily Mirror doing better piaffe tours, bit ahead of the music for the final.
81,465% Duke of Britain GER - strong trot tour, love the music mood, and suit very well also with transitions, bit tense collected walk, into piaffe fan, into super relaxed extended walk, strong canter tour with superb extension into double pirouettes, very nice final piaffe fan.
81,030% Dark Legend GBR - lovely start with passage half passes at the centerline, power diagonal, nice piaffe with small turn, super rhythm and expression for passage tours, supple power half passes, super relaxation for walk tour, picking up piaffe pirouette showing some tension in the contact, good canter pirouettes, smooth series, lack bit more clear flow for transition to trot, extended trot into nice piaffe pirouette, super final with strong passage tour.
79,845% Ichi SWE - some tension at start, but manage well as she is picking up her test, super nice trot tour with nice piaffe before going into the walk tour which could be a bit more relaxed, unfortunately some hot tensions before going into the canter tour, bit of a handful for the canter tour but very well managed and with some really nice quality work, superb piaffe turn at the end - super debut World Cup.
