Equestrian FEI Dressage Nations Cup 2019

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Intermediate I Freestyle

Tina Irwin (Laurencio) - 74.460%

Jennifer Baumert (Handsome) - 74.300%

Ashley Holzer (Valentine) - 73.635%

 

Grand Prix Freestyle

Shelly Francis (Danilo) - 81.840%

Yvonne Losos de Muniz (Aquamarijn) - 75.240%

Charlotte Jorst (Kastels Nintendo) - 75.200%

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Interesting to see some of the comments that the judges write on scorecards.

 

 

 

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They uploaded the winning ride of Shelly Francis & Danilo. One of the most popular freestyles on the circuit - music is completely a capella.

 

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Second and final day of competition at Compiegne NC is about to start.

 

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Brief overview of the Compiegne stage...

 

It was a rare away from home victory for  Great Britain, although not surprisingly. They did have the strongest team on paper.  Sweden finished 2nd, while  placed 3rd with rather an interesting team...

 

As things stand, France can hardly be considered to be a frontrunner for a team place for Tokyo. Hell, they barely finished ahead of  Switzerland at their home event, which is rather unbelieveable given the current state of Swiss dressage...

 

If France had a bad weekend, then  Belgium had an absolute disaster,,. They sent more or less their strongest team, and yet they were way, way behind everyone.. While Simon Missiaen got some unbelieveably low scores, probably the lowest point of Belgian week came earlier today when Isabel Cool retired her mount Aranco V, due to an apparent injury...

 

All results from Compiegne can be found here.

 

 

 

 

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Uggerhalne hosted the latest stage of Nations cup this weekend. Danish home team won, in front of Sweden, Germany, Finland and Great Britain.

 

Danish stars Cathrine Dufour and Daniel Bachmann Andersen both competed on their up-and-coming horses. DBA won both Grand Prix and Special, though.

 

 

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 Juliette Ramel & Buriel scored 79.915% in Geesteren today. 

 

I hope they win something big soon. Their flying changes are to die for...

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Järvenpää (FIN) hosted the latest NC stage this weekend. Only three nations participated, but it was great to see Estonia making their first ever appearance in any team dressage competition.

 

Results

399.905%

396.638%

374.260%

 

With this win, Sweden secured their 4th straight season's title.

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Seven nations will compete at the premier Nations Cup event in Aachen this week -

 

@OlympicIRL Only a limited number of teams get invited for Aachen each year, so Ireland being one of them is huge. This should be a perfect preparation for the European championships, where hopefully this team will do something of note.

 

Detailed entries

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3 hours ago, dcro said:

Seven nations will compete at the premier Nations Cup event in Aachen this week -

 

@OlympicIRL Only a limited number of teams get invited for Aachen each year, so Ireland being one of them is huge. This should be a perfect preparation for the European championships, where hopefully this team will do something of note.

 

Detailed entries

 

 

So good to see we have a team competing here. Hopefully it can be a long-term trend and not just some freak season for our dressage.