Saudi Arabia’s equestrian Show Jumping team, Saudi Equestrian, gained official qualification to the London 2012 Olympic Games (27 July – 12 August) at the CSI-W4* Doha (QAT) on Friday 30 December 2011. 15 teams, each with four riders, are now qualified in the equestrian team Show Jumping competition, which takes place over three days from Saturday 4 to Monday 6 August at the World Heritage Site of Greenwich Park. The Saudi team secured its place in the Olympics during the Group F (Africa and Middle East Region) FEI Select Olympic Qualification event held in the Qatari capital of Doha (December 27 – 30, 2011). |
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Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum Rewrites the Show’s Record Books: Double and Triple for the World No. 1
(mps) Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (Germany) has done the double: after winning the MERCEDES GERMAN MASTER on Friday evening, she was also victorious in the ROLEX FEI WORLD CUP JUMPINGTM, the Grand Prix of Stuttgart – presented by Mercedes-Benz and the BW-Bank –, at the 24th International STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS Horse Show on Sunday afternoon. She was rewarded with a Mercedes-Benz ML 280 worth 50,000 euro. The only other rider to win both the premium competitions in the same year was the Briton John Whitaker in 1988. |
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Felix Hassmann wins the MercedesCard Jump and Drive
(mps) Felix Hassmann (Germany) secured the win in the MercedesCard Jump and Drive in front of 8,200 highly enthusiastic spectators at the 24th International STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS Horse Show. The 22-year-old went clear over the first half of the course on his mare Creativa and could even afford to incur two penalty points driving around the second half in a Mercedes-Benz A 180. In spite of the time faults, his time of 102.15 seconds sufficed to give him first place. His well-earned reward: Felix Hassmann can now drive back home in a Mercedes-Benz A 180 CDI worth 28,480 euro. |
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San Patrignano’s CSI5* closet with a Dutch victory
Thrills and surprises for the over 4000 spectators on hand for the “ Vincenzo Muccioli Challenge Acqua Uliveto Grand Prix”, final class in the three day San Patrignano CSI5*. The two protagonists who kept the crowd on the edge of their seats were Rolf Ludi and Heiner Fischer, course designers that challenger the forty riders, letting only ten pass through to the jump off. The most difficult jump was a vertical made of planks, 1.6 meters high right in the center. Some of the best riders made errors at this obstacle, like favorite Belgian rider Jos Lansink, Germany’s Marcus Ehning and San Patrignano’s own Jerry Smit. |
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The final day of the San Patrignano’s CSI5* begins with the “Antonveneta” prize, mixed category for seven year old horses.
The horse and rider team which were able to best complete the courses designed by Rolf Ludi and Heiner Fischer, with fences 1.45 meters high, was their yellow Swiss, Steve Guerdat. Currently ranked twentieth on the FEI ranking list, Guerdat rode the Belgian Gelding Brustor Boy of Kannan to a double clear and a time of 34.73, impressively cutting all possibile corners and maintaining accuracy. Second place went to Gerco Schroder, 9th worldwide, on Eurocommerce Baltimore, an up and coming Dutch horse. Third place went to another Dutch duo, Marc Houtzager on Utopie. |
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