Danish Nanna and Daniel at Lövsta Top 10 Dressage
Today Nanna and Zepter showed a brand new freestyle with 80´s theme. The music is produced by Dutch Joost Peters, the master of freestyle music, and it suits Nanna and Zepter perfectly. When it comes to practising the lines with the music Nanna did not manage to practise with the new music before today´s premier, but Nanna´s experience did not fail as she manage to show the test of high degree of dificulty and with smooth lines. The small transition issues from the Grand Prix were solved for today´s freestyle, only tiny things were the two times series at the end where Zepter nearly took of but Nanna kept the control, unfortunately two errors creeping in for the jokerline.
No doubt Nanna and Zepter were today´s winner, and both judge at E German Katrina Wuest and judge at H Portugues Frederico Pinteus saw them in front. Jessica it´s soon time to leave the top!
Huge progress for Vayron & Daniel
Lövsta Top 10 was first time out since the Europeans for Vayron and Daniel Bachmann Andersen. The huge stallion has really developed body wise since Riesenbeck, and in the arena he looks super confidente, as the arena is pretty much packed with huge back drop and running wide screen. For today´s freestyle some minor issues creeping in.
Overall the frame, the quality of the piaffe tours, balance in and out of the piaffe tours and passage has developed nicely. For both the Grand Prix and the freestyle the pirouettes still need a bit more control and balance. Extensions in both trot and canter and half passes are with top qualities. As Daniel tells he is very happy about the development of Vayron both physically and mentally, he has develop with big steps since Riesenbeck, and now he is able to bring big parts from the warm-up into the arena.
H2R comments during the tests:
Dalera - Good halt, passage half pass to trot half pass, to passage, piaffe at C 7-8 steps, out passage, diagonal small lack of balance into piaffe pirouette, passage half pass to trot half pass, extension to piaffe turn, collected walk in good balance to nice extended walk could be a bit more active, picking up for canter, half pass, extended canter, nice 1,5 pirouette left, 2 times on curved, extended to 1,5 pirouette, missing bit balance and control, to 1 times, half pass left, extended short diagonal, transition, to passage, to piaffe, half pass passage, piaffe to half pass passage to halt. 90,295%
Zepter - Super entry in passage, superb halt, out into passage to piaffe turn on the hind legs turn out into half pass passage to half pass trot, back to passage and change in music, WOW piaffe at C and transitions, half pass right trot to half pass passage left - WOW WHAT a super freestyle mood, piaffe turn on the hind legs, out into extended trot, transition to canter, 2 times tiny tense into 1,5 pirouette, extended canter, transition to walk, good extended walk stretching, collected walk short diagonal, transition to canter to super 1,5 pirouette, WOW 1 times, back to priouette, zigzag canter, end with another super sit balanced pirouette, joker line 2 times small error, transition to trot, passage springing from leg to leg, into piaffe fan WOW smooth on the hind leg and out into passage. Applauding audience. 89,625%
Vayron - Entering in BIG passage, super halt, out in WOW extension, to passage, piaffe turn at C to passage half pass left, to trot half pass right, passage, piaffe turn at A to passage half pass right, half pass left trot, big reach uphill to passage, piaffe at the spot in good rhythm nice transitions, to collected walk to extended walk - good quality, canter at C, change of music, bit unbalanced out of pirouette to half pass, better 2nd pirouette, extended canter WOW back to pirouette left, out into 2 times BIG, waiting for the music to extended again, better balance right pirouette, super 1 times, joker line with super 1 times, bit stocked for transition to trot, extended trot to X into piaffe fan, really nice balance out into passage on hand to superb halt. 83,125% (placed 6th.)
Here you find the entire results.
