Saturday night at EQUITANA was set to be one of the highlight
features of the event and the crowd began to roll into the amazing
Nutririce Pavilion well ahead of the scheduled start time. The evening
program was an interesting balance of equestrian entertainment and
competition of the highest level that was part of the newly introduced
Australian Open Series. The CDI-W was to be the final Australian
qualifier before the Pacific League World Cup Final which will be held
as part of the Saddleworld Dressage Festival in Melbourne from the 9-12
December.
EQUITANA gave the Dressage competition a truly “international” feel
with a huge audience and the atmosphere under the Nutririce big top
matching that found in the top stadiums around the world where
thousands gather to enjoy the horses dancing.
REEM ACRA FEI WORLD CUP™ DRESSAGE 2010/2011 Stockholm (SWE), 28 November 2010
CORNELISSEN STORMS TO A THREE-TIME WIN IN STOCKHOLM by Louise Parkes
The
Netherlands' Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival stormed to
victory in the third leg of the 2010/2011 Reem Acra FEI World Cup™
Dressage series in Stockholm, Sweden this afternoon. The 31 year old
rider who suffered such deep disappointment when eliminated on her
first appearance at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Kentucky
in September after Parzival bit his tongue, bounced back with a
performance that had "winner" written all over it. And it was a
special moment as Cornelissen celebrated her third consecutive victory
at the Swedish venue where she also topped the Freestyle line-up in
2008 and 2009.
On yet another great day for Dutch dressage,
nine-time FEI World Cup™ Dressage champion Anky Van Grunsven produced a
lovely Freestyle test from IPS Painted Black to secure runner-up spot
ahead of Edward Gal and Interfloor Next One in third. Germany's Isabell
Werth, winner at the first two legs of the series in Odense, Denmark
and Lyon, France did not compete this afternoon but still heads up the
series leaderboard going into the next round at Olympia in London in
December. However the Dutch contingent look set to pose a serious
threat to the leading pack in the coming weeks.Continue reading "Reem Acra Fei World Cup Dressage - Round 3, Stockholm "
French riding master Philippe Karl was a hit at Equitana with
standing room only at all his sessions. Some sections of the Australian
dressage community are obviously keen to embrace his classical methods
to discover for themselves a lighter, more refined way to train their
horses, than that which is widely on offer these days.
This is his second trip to Australia and his School of Légèreté
(lightness) is blossoming under the care of Perth entrepreneur Pip
Easton.
With his perfect English and French charm, Monsieur Karl clearly
explained the classical method of training the proper contact which he
said is fundamental to training, and demonstrated with pupil Leanne
Williams and Avoca Eclipse. The demonstration on Sunday 21st November took place in the John Deere pavilion.
During the short session time it was only possible to gain a small
insight into the very first stages of his training method, but it is so
obviously different to the current popular method. His method of
training is to first use exercises from the ground so the horse
understands better when the rider is in the saddle.
For training or correcting the contact the hands are raised and
parallel so that the bit only acts on the corners of the mouth and does
not crush the tongue. When the horse accepts this contact then the
reins can be given forward without losing the contact, so that the neck
is long and low with an open gullet and the nose in front of the
vertical, therefore acting as a balancing pole. He warned against
having the horse’s neck too low which would put extra weight on the
forehand. Eclipse’s poll was slightly below the wither when she was
accepting the contact nicely.
WERRIBEE, Australia, Dec. 1–The top 12 Australian and one New
Zealand dressage combinations have been selected for the Pacific League
World Cup Final to decide who will compete at the global final in
Leipzig, Germany at the end of April.
The lineup for the Pacific League Final at the Werribee Park National Equestrian Center Dec. 9-12 is:
Nadia Coghlan/Northern Campion; Gitte Donvig/Port Said 10; Shiwon
Greene/Gosh of New Zealand; Mary Hanna/Sancette and Umbro; Blas
Lago/Northern Hector; Heath Ryan/Regardez Moi; Rozzie Ryan/Jive Magic;
Lesley Anne Taylor/Welpe’s Countess and Maree Tomkinson/Rodrigo III;
Caroline Wagner/WS Nevada and Chantal Wigan/Ferero.
WELLINGTON, Florida, Dec. 1–The Exquis World Dressage Masters in
Palm Beach that has kicked off the richest series of dressage
competitions for the past two years has been canceled for 2011.
The €100,000 (US$130,000) CDI5* had been scheduled for the first
week of February as the dressage centerpiece of the Winter Equestrian
Festival at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC).
Equestrian Sport Productions that owns and operates PBIEC disclosed the
cancellation Tuesday night after release of the highlights of the
12-week WEF with $6.2 million (€4.78 million) in prize money for
hunters and jumpers.
STUTTGART, Germany, Nov. 21–Isabell Werth rode El Santo NRW to
victory at the German Masters Grand Prix Special Sunday, after a win on
her Olympic mount Satchmo that gave her a sixth Grand Prix Freestyle
title at this indoor CDI5* attended by 60,800 spectators over five days.
“El Santo has performed really well here in Stuttgart and it was
only his third international show,” Isabell said after posting a score
of 76.875 per cent on the nine-year-old Rhineland gelding, the highest
mark to date.
Asian
Games individual medalists (L to R) silver-Quzandria Nur Binti Mahama
Fathil from Malaysia, gold-Young Shik Hwang of Korea and bronze-Mohd
Qabil Mahamad Fathil from Malaysia. Photo: Laixiongmin
GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 20–The Republic of Korea took team and individual gold in the Dressage Championships at the Asian Games.
Dong Seon Kim on Pleasure, Kyun Sub Kim and Dark Secret, Young Shik
Hwang on Laura and Jun Sang Choi on Ticco scooped the team title ahead
of the host nation.
Hwang, who celebrated his 20th birthday a week, dominated from the
outset to claim the individual title ahead of Malaysian siblings
Quzandria Nur Binti Mahama Fathil and her brother Mohd Qabil Ambak
Mahamad Fathil.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 28–Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival swept the
Stockholm International Horse Show, easily winning the World Cup
qualifier Grand Prix Freestyle Sunday in their first event since being
disqualified from the World Equestrian Games two months ago and leading
a Dutch sweep of the top three places.
Continue reading "Adelinde & Parzival Win Stockholm World Cup Qualifier in 1st Event Since WEG"
ANKUM, Germany, Nov.
28–Matthias Alexander Rath is widely reported to be the new rider of
Totilas that will be announced on Tuesday by owner Performance Sales
International. Dressage-news.com reported shortly after the sale of the
KWPN stallion that the 26-year-old German was likely to be Totilas’s
rider.
Emily Richards, an 18-year-old-dressage rider from the Lickey Hills is
hoping to go onto great things with the help of an international
competitor.
Continue reading "Success for Emily"
CANNES, France, June 9–Isabell Werth on her World Cup champion mount Warum Nicht top the field for the Exquis World Dressage Masters starting Thursday and that will include riders from Brazil for the first time, including Luiza Almeida who was the youngest ever dressage Olympian at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Continue reading "Isabell Werth Tops Field for Exquis World Dressage Masters Cannes"
