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Delaunay and Kittel shine at WDM Freestyle Mechelen
Dec 29, 2015
The public in the Nekkerhal in Mechelen enjoyed real entertaining and high quality dressage sport during the WDM Grand Prix Freestyle presented by VIAN GROUP. Grand Prix winner Patrik Kittel repeated his win with his young and very talented Oldenburger gelding Delaunay. His youngster excels in piaffe and passage and has all the qualities a good dressage horse needs to become a star. Watching this combination makes dressage look easy. The pair scored 78.575% and received € 15,500 [for] first prize.
Second place was for Holland’s Tommie Visser and Variohippique's Vingino with 76.075%. Vingino has a strong piaffe and his pirouettes are nearly perfect.
Finland’s Terhi Stegars and her impressive and light-footed black stallion Axis TSF finished in third place with 75.575%. Terhi lives and trains in Luxembourg since 2010 and it was her debut in the World Dressage Masters.
Belgium is on its way back in the dressage sport. They took fourth, fifth and sixth place in the WDM Freestyle. There were only smiles on the Belgian team. Fanny Verliefden (fourth), who runs a dressage stable together with her partner Wim Verwimp, father of Jorinde, rode the talented Annarico. The KWPN mare by Lord Loxley shows a lot of potential but it is a sensitive horse too who will need to get some more experience. Fanny did a great job and kept control when Annarico became a bit tense now en than. Jorinde Verwimp, who is in her first year with the seniors after competing in the WDM NextGen competitions, finished in fifth place with 75.275% aboard Tiamo. Jorinde was the youngest rider in this competition and trains with Anky van Grunsven. In sixth [place] was Jeroen Devroe with Eres DL (75.225%). The experienced rider performed a controlled Freestyle without mistakes.
Patrick van der Meer takes revenche in WDM Grand Prix Special
WDM Jerich Grand Prix Special presented by Ricoh all the horses seemed more at ease with the ambiance in the large Nekkerhal. They all seemed more relaxed and it was noticeable in the tests. Also Patrick van der Meer’s 11-year-old KWPN gelding Zippo (by Rousseau) was relaxed and focused. Their performance was smooth and the piaffe and passage exercises and the pirouettes were real highlights. The combination received a score of 70.659%.
Runner-up was the Ukraine’s Inna Logutenkova, Vian Group’s stable rider, with her 13-year-old Oldenburger stallion Don Gregorius.
Third place went to Belgium’s Mario Van Orshaegen and Wilco V (KWPN, by Rousseau) with 68.302%.
Source Press release WDM