Anky van Grunsven and Edward Gal this week-end, gave to the enthusiastic home crowds at Maastricht CDI-W, Holand, outstanding performances. Anky with Keltec Salinero, won the 3rd qualifier for the World Cup, Grand Prix (78%) and the Kür with music with an average of 82,375%.
Edward Gal with Lingh, followed in second in the Grand Prix . The lounge music of Gal’s Freestyle proved to have a more beautiful sound indoors than it had outdoors in Hagen and Geldnet Lingh showed himself much to his advantage and technically came very close to his trainer Anky van Grunsven.
Gal was delighted. «Lingh has done a lot of breeding this year and it was a bit much for him, so we have been concentrating on the basic work in training. He felt very good today, although the extended walk was a bit tense. He´s quick off my leg again and the work felt easy.»
Isabell Werth´s nine-year-old Warum Nicht FRH was much complimented after this, his only fourth-ever freestyle, ridden to Elgar´s «Pomp and Circumstance» and«Bohemian Rhapsody». She commented, «I´m so happy, Warum Nicht was so good today. I´m really surprised as how quickly he has developed in his first grand prix season. Even in a week he is less spooky and more concentrated. He is such a big horse – 1.84 – but he has a small heart and can be afraid of his own shadow, yet he is a real athlete who likes to move and is very elastic. I don´t like to compare my horses but in some ways he is the same type as Gigolo.»
Results (27.11.05)
CDI-W Maastricht
Maastricht – Holand
Grand Prix
1. Salinero / Anky Van Grunsven (Holland): 78.000%
2. Lingh / Edward Gal (Holland): 76.375%
3. Salieri Ch / Silvia Iklé (Switzerland): 72.458%
4. Sunrise / Imke Schellekens-Bartels (Hollanda): 71.833%
5. Warum Nicht / Isabell Werth (Germany): 71.750%
Grand Prix Kür to Music
1. Salinero / Anky Van Grunsven (Holland): 82.375%
2. Lingh / Edward Gal (Holland): 80.875%
3. Warum Nicht / Isabell Werth (Germany): 79.025%
4. Salieri Ch / Silvia Iklé (Switzerland): 76.550%
5. Sunrise / Imke Schellekens Bartels (Holland): 76.375%
6. Forest Gump / Hubertus Schmidt (Germany): 74.600%
7. Hexagons Ollright / Laurens Van Lieren (Holland): 73.475%
8. Ludewig G / Lone Jörgensen (Denmark): 73.000%
9. Paganini / Jeroen Devroe (Belgium): 69.475%
10. Amando II / G. Capellmann Lütkemeier (Germany): 69.350%