The Netherlands' Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival, winners of the third leg of the FEI World Cup Dressage series in Stockholm (Swe) today.
CORNELISSEN AND PARZIVAL ARE IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN
Stockholm (SWE), 29 November 2009 – Double European gold medallists, Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival, swept the opposition aside with a convincing victory in the third leg of the 2009/2010 FEI Dressage World Cup series in Stockholm, Sweden this afternoon. Pipping runners-up Matthias Alexander Rath and Triviant from Germany by more than a nine-point margin, the crowd-pleasing Dutch partnership firmly declared their intention to make their mark on this indoor season with a performance that put them in a class of their own. It was a triumph over the first-day nerves that gripped the 12 year old chestnut horse in yesterday’s Grand Prix. “Parzival was terrified by the hundreds of flashlights that went off during his test and he didn’t do himself justice yesterday,” commented Ground Jury president Gustaf Svalling afterwards. “It’s a big problem for the very popular horses, but today he was way ahead on marks, they did a great job,” he added.
Third place went to the home side’s Minna Telde and Don Charly who, like the winners, were also making their World Cup seasonal debut while The Netherlands Aat Van Essen rode Premier into fourth ahead of Germany’s Hubertus Schmidt and Hinnerk in fifth. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=9040
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November 29, 2009