Hope Beerling finished tenth in the 7YO Final with Vianne. Image: LL Foto.
Top ten for Hope Beerling in Ermelo
By Equestrian Life
Australian Hope Beerling has finished tenth in the 7YO Final on the last day of competition at the FEI/ WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses in Ermelo, the Netherlands.
The 24-year-old Queenslander was riding for the USA on this occasion with the American-bred Hanoverian mare Vianne, who is owned by NorCordia USA (an equine investment company cofounded and owned by Catherine Haddad Staller in conjunction with Denmark’s Ulrik Clemmensen). Vianne was bred by Catherine and is by Vitalis out of Raureif (Ramiro’s Bube).
Hope and Vianne – one of only three mares in the 15-horse final – scored a total of 75.122%, receiving 7.9 for trot, 8.4 for walk, 7.8 for canter, 8.1 for submission, and 8.1 for perspective to average 80.6% (C), plus technical marks of 69.143% (H) and 70.143% (B).
You can read more about Hope and Vianne in the August issue of Equestrian Life.
The 7YO Final was won by Denmark’s Anna Kasprzak and gelding Danciero 7 (Dancier x Floriscount OLD) on 86.829%, with Germany’s Leonie Richter and stallion Global Player OLD (Grand Galaxy Win x Don Schufro) second on 83.129%, and the Netherlands’ Kirsten Brouwer with mare Lighting Star (Ferguson x De Niro 6) third on 81.779%.
How are 7YO tests judged?
The 7YO tests are judged a little differently than the 5YO and 6YO classes, as they have technical test marks as well as the marks for paces and general impression.
Championships for 7-year-old horses are judged by a Ground Jury of five FEI judges. The President and the Commentating Judge sit at C (at Ermelo, Henning Lehrmann and Maria Colliander) with a third Ground Jury Member at E (Dr. Jean-Michel Roudier), judging only the quality of the horse by using a joint scoring method connected by headsets.
The other two Ground Jury Members are individually judging only the technical execution of the test, one sitting at H (Janet Lee Foy) and the other at B (Juan Carlos Campos Escribano), but neither are connected among each other nor connected to the judges at C and E.
The quality of the horse and the technical execution of the test shall are weighted each with 50% towards the end result.
6YO Final
The 6YO Final went to the Netherlands’ Hans Peter Minderhoud and My Toto (Glock’s Toto Jr. x Glock’s Voice) with 88.6%. Germany filled second and third place with Leonie Richter and Vitalos FRH (88.4%) and Beatrice Hoffrogge and Zuperman OLD (87.2%) respectively.
CDI3* Grand Prix Special
William Matthew contested the Grand Prix Special with young Grand Prix horse Freischütz 5. Image: LL Foto.
William Matthew contested the Grand Prix Special with young Grand Prix horse Freischütz 5, scoring 65.979% for 11th place.
Freischütz 5, a nine-year-old gelding owned by Madeline Winter-Schulze, is by Foundation 2 out of a Del Martino 2 mare. He recently stepped up to Big Tour level following success at Small Tour, and Ermelo was his first international-level Big Tour show. On Saturday, the pair scored 66.935% for 16th in the Grand Prix.
Earlier this year Will and Freischütz won the first leg of the Louisdor Prize – a prestigious German championship series for developing Grand Prix horses – at Horses & Dreams in Hagen, and the pair are set to contest the final in Frankfurt in December.
The Grand Prix Special was won by Norway’s Isabel Freese and Total Hope OLD on 75.681%, while the CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle was won by Denmark’s Anna Kasprzak and Addict De Massa on 76.98%.
Full results from the event can be found here.
Catch up on Saturday’s results, including Simone Pearce’s silver medal in the 5YO Final.
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