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Dutch chalk up another win at the “Vincenzo Muccioli Challenge”
The Dutch team is in top forma s the competition heats up at San Patrignano’s CSI5*, winning three of the five classes held so far.Harry Smolders rode a clean and fast jump off (35 seconds) on Exquis Powerfee, winning the “Lazard” prize, repeating his victory in the small Grand Prix “Drugs Off” yesterday. Second place went to Swiss rider Pius Schwizer, winner of the show’s opening class, on the German Noblesse, just nine tenths of a second behind. Third place went to Germany’s Markus Ehning, currently eighth on the FEI workwide ranking list, riding the ten year old Hannoverian For Germany, just a second and a half behind the winners. The tight finishes only confirm the skill of the winning riders.
Behind the Swiss duo Daniel Etter on his Peu a Peu and France’s Eugenie Angot on Mozart des Hayettes, fourth and fifth respectively, we find living legend Ludger Beerbaum, fourth in the worldwide ranking. Beerbaum arrived in the afternoon from the United States and rode onto the field on his Goldfever, already his mount on occasion of Olympic wins in Sydney and Athens. His sixth place finish, after two clear rounds, was enough to confirm voices that he is the favorite for Sundays’ “Uliveto” Grand Prix, the event’s closing class.
Quelle: San Patrignano PO |
