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Last Updated: Aug 30th, 2009 - 22:33:08 |
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships: Staut Wins Individual Jumping Final for France
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| Frenchman Kevin Staut and Kraque Boom (photo: Dirk Caremans) |
(Windsor, GBR) - Kevin Staut steered Kraque Boom to take the individual jumping gold medal on the final day of the Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships at Windsor Castle, Great Britain, today. In a nail-biting finish he clinched it with a fabulous clear from the 11 year old stallion which is owned by his grand-parents, and he said afterwards - "I hope this will do good things for French breeding and that it will encourage our young riders. France has been through some difficult times over the past few years but this summer we won the Meydan series and now I have won here so I hope this motivates everyone to keep going!".
Aug 30, 2009, 22:02
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Dressage Championships: Gal Breaks Another Record in Freestyle!
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| Gal, the new European Freestyle Champion with the record-beating Moorlands Totilas - 90.750%! |
(Windsor, GBR) - It seemed impossible that the record-breaking week at the European FEI Jumping and Dressage Championships at Windsor, Great Britain, could get any better, but for The Netherlands' Edward Gal and Moorlands Totilas the impossible is just all in a days work. Tonight, before a packed house and with Windsor Castle standing proudly as a backdrop, the most extraordinary horse-and-rider combination ever seen in the sport of dressage smashed the world record they established in Hickstead just a few short weeks ago when scoring 90.70% to win the Freestyle gold medal.
Aug 29, 2009, 21:51
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships: Swiss Win Fourth European Team Jumping Title
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| Team European champion Switzerland with chef d’equipe Rolf Grass (photo: © Dirk Caremans) |
(Windsor, GBR) - The Swiss claimed their fourth team jumping title at the Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships at Windsor, Great Britain, today where the Italians continued to amaze when taking silver ahead of Germany in bronze. Out in front after Wednesday night's Speed and Handiness leg, the eventual winners lost their grip at the half-way stage, but they pulled themselves together again and came back out with all guns blazing in round two when foot-perfect runs from Daniel Etter (Peu a Peu) and anchorman Steve Guerdat (Jalisca Solier) sealed the result.
Aug 28, 2009, 20:07
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships: Double-Dutch Again As Adelinde Pips Edward In Grand Prix Special
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| Durch rider Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival claimed gold in the Grand Prix Special (photo: Dirk Caremans) |
(Windsor, GBR) - Adelinde Cornelissen produced 6.5 minutes of magic to win gold in the Grand Prix Special at the Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships at Windsor, Great Britain today. On another extraordinary afternoon her Dutch team-mate, Edward Gal, set a new world record with Moorlands Totilas, but it was a short-lived moment in the spotlight as Cornelissen simply blew it away with a spectacular last-to-go test with the fabulous Parzival.
Aug 27, 2009, 19:46
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships: Dutch Take Gold - Gal Sets New World Record
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| Winning Dutch team: Imke Schellekens-Bartels; Edward Gal; Adelinde Cornelissen; and Anky van Grunsven (photo: © Remko Veurink, www.jmint.eu) |
(Windsor, GBR)- On another record-breaking day of dressage, the Dutch secured their second successive team title and their final rider, Edward Gal, set a new world record in the Grand Prix at the Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships at Windsor, Great Britain today.
Aug 26, 2009, 19:57
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships: Swiss Get Off to Flying Start In First Competition
(Windsor, GBR) - Swiss riders Pius Schwizer and Steve Guerdat filled the top two places in tonight's first jumping competition at the Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships at Windsor, Great Britain. Schwizer steered the 12 year old bay gelding Ulysse home and clear in the quickest time when 13th of the 77 starters to take on the 13-fence Speed and Handiness track designed by Bob Ellis. And Guerdat slotted in behind him when going sixth from the end of the class with the super-speedy French-bred mare Jalisca Solier.
Aug 26, 2009, 18:57
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships 2009: Dutch Delight On First Day at Windsor
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| Adelinde Cornelissen (NED) and Parzival in the lead after the first Grand Prix day (photo: © Dirk Caremans) |
(Windsor, GBR) - The firm favourites from The Netherlands got off to a flying start on the opening day of the Alltech FEI European Dressage and Jumping Championships at Windsor Castle, Great Britain, today when Adelinde Cornelissen steered Parzival into the lead in the FEI Dressage Grand Prix ahead of team-mate Imke Schellekens-Bartels and Hunter Douglas Sunrise. And Carl Hester's score of 72.080%, which left him in third place after 28 of the 54 starters came into the ring, is a big boost for the host country which lies third behind Germany at the halfway stage of the team competition.
Aug 25, 2009, 12:50
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Dressage and Jumping Championships: Jumping Course Design Preview
Bob Ellis, the 62 year old course designer charged with creating the jumping tracks for the Alltech FEI European Dressage and Jumping Championships at Windsor Castle in Great Britain, has a specific theme at the heart of his ideas. He is not prepared to give a lot away ahead of the big week, but he says "this is a very special location, and I decided a long time ago that I want the arena to reflect an English country garden".
Aug 23, 2009, 22:49
FEI European Dressage & Jumping Championships 2009
Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championship: Dressage Preview
(Great Britain) - A week ahead of the 2009 Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships at Windsor Castle, Great Britain, it seems the Dutch are firm favorites to take team and individual gold. At Torino in Italy in 2007 they broke the spell that had provided Germany with absolute dominance of the team title over the previous 42 years, and the biggest problem Dutch Chef d'Equipe, Sjef Janssen, has faced this summer has been deciding which of his sparkling choice of riders to leave out of his side. It's a challenge a lot of the other national selectors would have liked to have been facing - particularly Germany's team coach Holger Schmezer.
Aug 20, 2009, 23:32
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