After a thrilling competition, Australia’s Boyd Exell has won the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Driving Final in Geneva, presented by Brasserie A. Egger. Being the title defender, winner of three World Cup™ Driving events this season and top favourite, Exell felt the pressure on his shoulders but kept his head clear and beat the ‘Dutch’, Koos de Ronde and IJsbrand Chardon.
Australia’s Chris Chugg and his handsome stallion Vivant have finished in seventh place in the Rolex FEI World Cup final in Geneva.
This is an outstanding result. Despite lying 267th in the world rankings, Chris produced a series of brilliant performances from Vivant and was a crowd-pleaser every time he came in the ring.
The 2010 title was taken out by Germany’s Marcus Ehning, who is celebrating his 36th birthday. Marcus kept the coolest head despite an early mistake and won through when those ahead of him faltered. This was his third time to take the prestigious Rolex title and he said “it’s really unbelievable - I thought I was too far behind going into the last round but this is how it works out - I am so happy!”
Germany dominated the winners podium when Ludger Beerbaum produced one of just four double-clear performances in today’s competition to finish joint-runner-up with Switzerland’s Pius Schwizer.
And the thrilling class highlighted some great characters and new arrivals, but shattered the dream of America’s Mario Deslauriers who it seemed was about to re-take the title he first claimed 26 years ago in Gothenburg, only to see it slip from his grasp in the fading moments.
Result: (After three legs of final):
1, Noltes Kuchengirl/Plot Blue (Marcus Ehning) Ger 6;
The USA has dominated round one of the Rolex FEI World Cup Showjumping Final, with first place going to Rich Fellers and Flexible, and second to McLain Ward and Sapphire. Third place went to Rodrigo Pessoa and Let’s Fly.
Chris Chugg and Vivant went clear toplace 14th and Edwina Alexander and Cevo Itot du Château placed 31stin the event with eight jumping penalties.
The silver anniversary FEI World Cup™ Dressage final begins tomorrow at s’Hertogenbosch.
The full list of starters is now as follows:
The Netherlands - Edward Gal, Adelinde Cornelissen and Imke Schellekens-Bartels
Germany - Isabell Werth, Matthias Alexander Rath and Carola Koppelmann
Sweden - Patrick Kittel and Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven
Poland - Michal Rapcewicz and Katarzyna Milczarek
Australia - Brett Parbery
Belgium - Jeroen Devroe
Austria - Peter Gmoser
Denmark - Nathalie Zu Sayn Wittgenstein
Brazil - Luiza Tavares de Almeida
FEI TV will be covering the event live from the Brabanthalle Arena. FEI TV can be accessed at: www.feitv.org.
The action begins at 5:30am Friday with the qualifying Grand Prix, and the title-holder will be decided by the Kur will be televised from 1:30am on Sunday.
The line-up for the final of the 2009/2010 FEI World Cup™ Dressage series which will take place at ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands from 25-27 March 2010 has been revised.
The USA and Canadian Federations have confirmed that, due to health issues for either horses or riders, there will be no representatives from the North American League, so the two available slots will now be taken by reserve riders Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven from Sweden and Poland’s Katarzyna Milczarek who previously applied for any available extra starting places.
Both of these riders became eligible through meeting the criteria laid down for participation at the final which includes the necessity to have competed in at least three qualifiers and the achievement of a score of at least 68.0% on each occasion.
As the reigning Olympic and nine-time World Cup title-holder Anky van Grunsven from The Netherlands has not qualified this year and the 2008/2009 FEI World Cup™ Dressage series winner Steffen Peters of the USA has decided not to defend his title, a new champion will be crowned in the Brabanthallen at ’s-Hertogenbosch in two weeks time.
The full list of participants is now as follows:
The Netherlands - Edward Gal, Adelinde Cornelissen and Imke Schellekens-Bartels
Germany - Isabell Werth, Matthias Alexander Rath and Carola Koppelmann
Sweden - Patrick Kittel and Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven
Poland - Michal Rapcewicz and Katarzyna Milczarek
Australia - Brett Parbery
Belgium - Jeroen Devroe
Hungary - Acs Robert
Denmark - Nathalie Zu Sayn Wittgenstein
Brazil - Luiza Tavares de Almeida
Brett Parbery and Victory Salute leave for Europe this week, in preparation for the FEI World Cup Dressage Final. Brett and Victory Salute were the winners of the Pacific League World Cup Final.
The FEI World Cup Dressage Final will be held from 25 to 28 March 2010 at s-Hertongenbosch in the Netherlands. Brett will be based in Holland before the event.
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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