Grand Prix for Special
- 1. Potomac - Lebek, Susanne - 70.596 % (Germany)
- 2. Cadillac - Haddad, Catherine - 69.021 % (USA)
- 3. Famous Boy - Henschke, Miriam - 66.170 % (Germany)
- 4. Weltino - Zierer, Ludwig - 64.638 % (Germany)
- 5. Dark Surprise - Bordone, Susanna - 62.085 % (Italy)
- 6. Flourian - Sangiorgi, Pierluigi - 60.979 % (Italy)
Grand Prix Special
- 1. Cadillac - Haddad, Catherine - 69.958 % (USA)
- 2. Weltino - Zierer, Ludwig - 67.333 % (Germany)
- 3. Famous Boy - Henschke, Miriam - 66.250 % (Germany)
- 4. Dark Surprise - Bordone, Susanna - 65.042 % (Italy)
- 5. Potomac - Lebek, Susanne - 64.917 % (Germany)
- 6. Flourian - Sangiorgi, Pierluigi - 63.042 % (Italy)
Kudos for Catherine Haddad, the first American to win a Grand Prix on the European continent since Lisa Wilcox's last win with Relevant in 2003! Aboard her 12 year old Danish gelding Cadillac by Solos Carex Haddad earned good points in the collected tour with seamless transitions in and out of the piaffe, which was always balanced, active and on the spot. Cadillac was more relaxed and engaged in the Grand Prix Special on Saturday which Haddad was able to win even after going off course.
“Somehow I switched into automatic in the middle of the one tempi centerline and went back to riding the old Special. So I finished the line with the left lead and a left pirouette right in front of the judges and then I thought, ‘Wait a minute, I just DID a left pirouette!’ It will be months before I’m used to riding the new tests.”
Haddad was not the only rider to go off course in Leipzig. Werth slipped into automatic in the Grand Prix after the canter depart as she turned down the centerline to ride the zig-zag. The new test calls for two tempis as the first canter exercise. The deducted points cost her first place in the Grand Prix. Both riders seemed unperturbed by the mistakes as did the several riders who went off course in Münster last weekend.
“The new FEI tests will cause confusion for a while but I’m not going to worry about it. I am so happy with my horse this weekend! Cadillac is just getting better and better now. And of course taking home a gold ribbon this weekend really feels like a pay off for the long years of hard work with him. 2009 is going to be a good year!”
Grand Prix for Kur
- 1. Royal Rubin - Kemmer, Heike - 68.894 % (Germany)
- 2. First Class - Werth, Isabell - 68.383 % (Germany)
- 3. Ekwador - Milczarek, Katarzyna - 64.213 % (Poland)
- 4. Cosmopolitan CC - Eglinski, Christine - 63.617 % (Germany)
- 5. Capuccino - Platen, Julia-Katharina von - 62.681 % (Germany)
- 6. Prego - Paprocka-Campanella, Anna - 57.745 % (Italy)
Grand Prix Kur to Music
- 1. First Class - Werth, Isabell - 74.750 (Germany)
- 2. Royal Rubin - Kemmer, Heike - 73.700 (Germany)
- 3. Cosmopolitan CC - Eglinski, Christine - 68.400 (Germany)
- 4. Capuccino - Platen, Julia-Katharina von - 67.150 (Germany)
- 5. Ekwador - Milczarek, Katarzyna- 66.650 (Poland)
- 6. Prego - Paprocka-Campanella, Anna - 63.650 (Italy)