Last week saw the continuation of success for Australia’s eventers, showjumpers and drivers who are currently competing overseas.
Nations Cup, Linz
The Nations Cup team of Paul Athanasoff and Wirragulla Nicklaus, Chris Chugg and Vivant, James Paterson-Robinson and Niack De L’Abbaye and Matt Williams on Urleven Van De Helle finished second in the Nations Cup at Linz.
This follows the second place that the team (with Phil Lever riding in place of Matt Williams) achieved recently at Lummen.
The event was won by England on 12 penalties, second to Australia on 16 penalties, and third to Belgium on 19 penalties. There were 16 nations represented.
Edwina and Cevo Itot du Chateau finished with second place and 57,000 euros in prize money in the in the CSI5* class at Hamburg, in the German leg of the Global Champions Tour.
There were four double clear rounds, which mean a four way jump off.
The event was won by Lauren Hough and Quick Study (USA) Laura Kraut (USA) took third place.
Boyd Exell continued his winning form over the weekend, winning the Land Rover International Driving Grand Prix horse teams class at Royal Windsor Horse Show.
Source: www.rwhs.co.uk
What fantastic results! Congratulations to all the Aussies!!!
Following recent successes by Edwina Alexander and Chris Chugg in the FEI World Cup, our Australian showjumpers have made another outstanding achievement by placing second at the FEI Nations Cup event at Belgium!
The Nations Cup team consisted of Chris Chugg on Vivant, Paul Athanasoff on Wirragulla Nicklaus, Phillip Lever on Ashleigh Drossel Dan, and James Paterson-Robinson riding a 9 year old stallion Niack de L’Abbaye by Diamant De Semilly.
Australia may post a team at the next Nations Cup event in Austria in mid May. The team will remain the same with the exception of substituting Phillip Lever with Matt Williams.
Brett Parbery and Victory Salute finished 10th out of 15 in the finale event of the FEI World Cup Dressage Final, the freestyle to music. The Australian pair finished on a score of 70.550%. Brett had been ranked 11th after Thursday’s Grand Prix score of 67.021%.
The pre-event favourites, Edward Gal and Moorlands Totilas (NED), were the winners of the World Cup Final, but not without fierce competition from Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival (NED) who took an early lead by winning the Grand Prix. However, the magical Totilas, that the world has come to love, rose to the challenge in the Kur, earning 89.8% to take out the 2009/10 title.
The weekend also saw the final round of the FEI World Cup showjumping qualifier, where Edwina Alexander placed third on Cevo Itot du Chateau, from Rolf-Goran Bengtsson and Casall La Silla (SWE) and Jessica Kuerten and Castle Forbes Libertina (IRL). Chris Chugg and Vivant placed 23rd.
Edwina, who finished in the FEI World Cup Western European League Standings in fourth place, and Chris now move onto the FEI World Cup Final in Geneva in 14-18 April 2010.
Congratulations go to the Aussies who did us proud in s’Hertogenbosch!
The Australian Dressage Committee in conjunction with the State Dressage Authorities has planned to introduce a new grading system effective from 1 July 2010:
-the new system is based purely on performances (60% or above in Official competitions from Preliminary level and above);
-placings will not count for grading;
-preliminary and novice are once again separate levels;
-horses/ponies are only upgraded once they have gained 30 upgrading points in a higher level than their grading.
George Morris has announced that he will again visit Australia to conduct clinics.
The dates are 15 – 17 January 2010 and 19 – 21 January 2010 and both will be held at Wayne Roycroft’s property, Ernbrook Rd, Mt White NSW. You will need to bring your own chairs.
Times of the sessions will be: 8.30am-10.30am (1.40m group), 10.30am-12.30pm (1.25m group) and 2pm til 4pm (1.15 group).
The cost is $30 per day for spectators and this is great value for money for such an incredible learning experience. In January 2009, spectators were lucky enough to watch George teaching riders such as Chris Chugg, Vicki Roycroft, Colleen Brook and Stuart Tinney.
So come and see the world’s best coach train the country’s best riders!
Brett Parbery and Victory Salute have won the 2009 Pacific League World Cup Final which was held at the Saddleworld Dressage Festival at Werribee on Saturday 12 December 2009.
The pair scored 75.3 per cent and has now earned the right to represent Australia at the World Cup Final in ’s-Hertogenbosch in March 2010.
Second place went to Rachael Sanna riding Jaybee Alabaster with 71.7 per cent and third went to Rozzie Ryan and Jive Magic who scored 68.7 per cent.
Brett is still deciding if he will go to the World Cup Final.
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