Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2017

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4 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Tomorrow finally we'll have an afternoon session  I hope that i'll watch it  13.30, right?

 

It's actually double program. Dressage Grand Prix Special starts at 11:45; Team Final in Jumping will start at 20:30, under floodlights.

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58 minutes ago, dcro said:

Bertram Allen will not start tomorrow. I guess that's sensible considering what happened in the last two days.

 

And the bad luck goes on forever

 

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Marcela Krinke-Susmelj started performing walk 2 movements too early. She'll get 2% deduction for that.

 

Aerne really nailed it today though, almost 3% higher score than in the first round.

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Gal scores under 70% That is a shocker, but Dutch dressage seems to be rocketing downwards very rapidly.

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Pinto makes an error, 2% deduction. Sadly, he will not qualify for the freestyle because of that.

 

He got 70.394% (72% would easily be enough)...

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Kosterina is so close to qualifying for freestyle, just needs one more to finish behind.

 

At least Weinbauer is safe, very cool and unexpected result.

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54 minutes ago, dcro said:

Gal scores under 70% That is a shocker, but Dutch dressage seems to be rocketing downwards very rapidly.

 

Do you have any idea why it seems to be going that way? I'm rather surprised to see Kirk do better than 3 dutch riders!

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6 minutes ago, Agger said:

 

Do you have any idea why it seems to be going that way? I'm rather surprised to see Kirk do better than 3 dutch riders!

 

In general judges started prioritizing harmony between horse and rider, and started deducting more points for any tension. And Dutch riders seem to struggle with that more often than the others. Gal's horse was already pretty tense in the first round, but today they also had quite a few mistakes.

 

Patrick and Diederik didn't score too badly, for their standards. They are pretty much on-par with Agnete this year, however Agnete rectified her mistakes from the first day and scored really well.

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What a test for Nilshagen

 

Remember these two for the future!

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Swedes really on fire today though. All 4 of them scoring 2-4% higher than in the Grand Prix.

 

Zibrandtsen scores 73%, 7 more to go.