Sam Griffiths and the Australian riders dominated the FEI World Cup dressage test

CIC3*-W Grand Prix FEI Eventing World Cup: 4 Australias at the 4 first places!

All the Oceania dominated the first test of this last FEI Eventing World Cup leg. No more than 4 Australians at the 4 first places! Leading this « dream team », we find Sam Griffiths riding his 10 year old gelding Real Dancer, followed by his team mate Clayton Fredericks…only 0,1 point behind! Clayton ranked his 2 horses at the 2nd and 3rd places, ex aequo with Chris Burton (AUS)! Mark Todd (NZL) closes this famous quintet with NZB Campino. Two French riders follow with less than 2 points more: Eddy Sans and Gilles Pons (6th and 7th). « My horse is really good at dressage test » explained Sam Griffiths, « it's really cool to see so many Australian riders at the top of this World Cup Class. The cross-country seems nice and hard but we expected that here ».

CIC* Grand Prix Conseil Général de l'Orne: Sophie Caron (FRA) from end to end.

She was 1st at dressage test, got no penalty on the show jumping test, and finally ended the cross-country without any penalty…even if she started at 19th rank on 114 starters. « It's my first international victory » she said, « I've finished 11th in Arville/BEL this year, and 8th here in Le Pin last year. » The French 27 year old rider, who is horse riding instructor, beat another French rider, Jean-Lou Bigot, the former European Champion (1993). Jodie McGregor (GBR) obtained the 3rd place riding Spot On XII. Full results attached.

CIC** Grand Prix Région Basse Normandie: statu quo after dressage

The 3 first riders after first part of the dressage test remained in the lead. Lara de Liedekerke (BEL) and Ucello vd Zuuthoeve are still ahead of Mark Todd (NZL) / Willy Do (2nd), and Felix Vogg (SUI) / Maverick McNamara (3rd). Felix succeeded in ranking his second mount at the 6th place, just behind Kenki Sato (JPN) and Karim Laghouag (FRA), equal 4th.