Prix St Georges
- 1. Sophie Baetens van Lent - Rubens - 68.263 (Belgium)
- 2. Claudia Fassaert - Donnerfee - 67.263 (Belgium)
- 3. Delphine Meiresonne - Wipsy van 't Heihof - 66.684 (Belgium)
- 4. Fanny Verliefden - Guanita II - 65.315 (Belgium)
- 5. Gilles Siauve - Windsor van 't Dashaegeveld - 65.052 (France)
- 6. Johan Rockx - Verdi de la Fazenda - 65.000 (Holland)
- 7. Dominique Rombouts - Space - 64.579 (Belgium)
- 8. Kaatje Debie - Ankonda van de Kwaplas - 63.894 (Belgium)
- 9. Kelly de Belder - Flambo - 63.421 (Belgium)
- 10. Jana Freund - Pearcy Pearson - 63.210 (Germany)
- 11. Marc Peter Spahn - Fryso Huys Annichje - 62.684 (Belgium)
- 12. Yoni de Souter - Bonaire vna de Mottelhoeve - 62.421 (Belgium)
- 13. Stephane Morai - Warhol - 61.263 (Belgium)
- 14. Tom Heylen - Universal - 61.052 (Belgium)
- 15. Isabel Cool - Equitano - 57.052 (Belgium)
Belgian Sophie Baetens-Van Lent won the opening class, the Prix St Georges, at the CDI-W Mechelen in Belgium. Aboard her 11-year old Dutch warmblood gelding Rubens (by Rubinstein x Nimmerdor), Baetens scored 68,26% to win the class. Country mate Claudia Fassaert finished second on her elegant 9-year old German bred mare Donnerfee (by De Niro x Rosenkavalier).
Intermediaire I Kur to Music
- 1. Claudia Fassaert - Donnerfee - 71.550 (Belgium)
- 2. Johan Rockx - Verdi de la Fazenda - 70.450 (Holland)
- 3. Delphine Meiresonne - Wipsy van het Heihof - 69.750 (Belgium)
- 4. Sophie Baetens van Lent - Rubens - 68.800 (Belgium)
- 5. Fanny Verliefden - Guanita II - 64.450 (Belgium)
- 6. Gilles Siauve - Windsor van 't dashaegeveld - 62.950 (France)
Grand Prix
- 1. Adelinde Cornelissen - Parzival - 78.680 (Holland)
- 2. Imke Schellekens Bartels - Sunrise - 72.170 (Holland)
- 3. Isabell Werth - Warum Nicht FRH - 71.702 (Germany)
- 4. Jeanette Haazen - Nartan - 70.170 (Holland)
- 5. Carola Koppelmann - Le Bo - 70.085 (Germany)
- 6. Patrik Kittel - Scandic - 69.659 (Sweden)
- 7. Jeroen Devroe - Apollo van het Vijverhof - 69.361 (Belgium)
- 8. Sabine Becker - Lamarc - 67.361 (Germany)
- 9. Philippe Jorissen - Le Beau - 66.553 (Belgium)
- 10. Catherine Haddad - Cadillac - 65.149 (USA)
- 11. Aat van Essen - Premier - 64.595 (Holland)
- 12. Isabella Willibald - Willibald's Don Giovanni - 62.127 (Austria)
- 13. Jana Freund - Louis Le Bon - 61.617 (Germany)
- 14. Marc Peter Spahn - Cas - 60.723 (Belgium)
- 15. Claudia Fassaert - Ostra - 60.255 (Belgium)
- 16. Gilles Siauve - Aston - 59.914 (France)
- 17. Fanny Verliefden - Rubel - 58.808 (Belgium)
- 18. Susan de Klein - Prince - 57.404 (Dutch Antilles)
Grand Prix Kur to Music
Judge E: Mrs J.Loriston-Clarke (GBR)
Judge H: Mr J.Van Daele (BEL)
Judge C: Mr J.Peeters (NED)
Judge M: Mr U.Spenlen (GER)
Judge B: Mr F.Leyman (BEL)
| RK | HORSE | RIDER | E | H | C | M | B | Perc. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SUNRISE - HANN Mare\Dark Bay\1994\Singular Joter x Waldwerk\ |
Imke SCHELLEKENS-BARTELS (NED) | 82.50 88.00 |
78.50 87.00 |
78.00 86.00 |
72.00 82.00 |
79.00 89.00 |
82.200 | ||||
| 2 | WARUM NICHT FRH - HANN Gelding\Chestnut\1996\Weltmeyer x Wenzel I\ |
Isabell WERTH (GER) | 84.00 89.00 |
75.00 83.00 |
78.00 83.00 |
77.50 85.00 |
78.00 84.00 |
81.650 | ||||
| 3 | NARTAN - KWPN Gelding\Bay\1995\Jazz x Le Faquin\ |
Jeannette HAAZEN(NED) | 74.50 80.00 |
73.00 78.00 |
74.50 84.00 |
72.00 83.00 |
77.50 82.00 |
77.850 | ||||
| 4 | LE BO - HANN Gelding\Chestnut\1993\Laur. Crusader x Eisenherz I\ |
Carola KOPPELMAN(GER) | 71.00 77.00 |
70.00 77.00 |
73.00 79.00 |
72.00 82.00 |
76.50 81.00 |
75.850 | ||||
| 5 | APOLLO VAN HET VIJVERSHOF - BWP Gelding\Bay\2000\Welt Hit x Ritmeister\ |
Jeroen DEVROE (BEL) | 71.50 78.00 |
70.50 77.00 |
74.00 80.00 |
70.50 79.00 |
70.50 75.00 |
74.600 | ||||
| 6 | SCANDIC - SWB Stallion\Chestnut\1999\Solos Carex x Amiral\ |
Patrik KITTEL (SWE) | 72.00 81.00 |
72.00 79.00 |
69.50 76.00 |
69.50 76.00 |
68.50 75.00 |
73.850 | ||||
| 7 | CADILLAC 35 - DEN Gelding\Dark Bay\1997\Solos Carex x Ragtime\ |
Catherine HADDAD(USA) | 69.00 76.00 |
67.50 76.00 |
67.00 76.00 |
67.50 74.00 |
67.00 74.00 |
71.400 | ||||
| 8 | LEMARC WRT - OLDENB Gelding\Dark Bay\1996\Leggiero x Kronprinz\ |
Sabine BECKER (GER) | 70.00 77.00 |
64.50 71.00 |
68.50 76.00 |
65.00 72.00 |
67.00 73.00 |
70.400 | ||||
| 9 | PREMIER - KWPN Gelding\Chestnut\1997\Jazz x Ulft\ |
Aat VAN ESSEN (NED) | 64.00 68.00 |
68.00 74.00 |
67.50 74.00 |
64.00 70.00 |
69.00 71.00 |
68.950 | ||||
| 11 | PARZIVAL - KWPN Gelding\Chestnut\1994\Jazz x Ulft\ |
Adelinde CORNELISSEN(NED) | 66.00 69.00 |
63.00 77.00 |
73.00 74.00 |
64.00 61.00 |
69.00 72.00 |
68.800 | ||||
| 10 | LE BEAU - OLDENB Gelding\Chestnut\1998\Le Cour x Classiker\ |
Philippe JORISSEN(BEL) | 65.50 73.00 |
64.00 69.00 |
66.00 75.00 |
66.00 73.00 |
65.50 71.00 |
68.800 | ||||
| 12 | FRYSO HUYS CAS - FRIES Stallion\Black\2000\Adel x Ouke\ |
Marc Peter SPAHN(BEL) | 69.50 73.00 |
66.00 71.00 |
62.00 64.00 |
65.50 64.00 |
63.00 67.00 |
66.500 | ||||
| 13 | WILLIBALD'S DON GIOVANNI - OLDENB Gelding\Chestnut\1994\Donnerhall x Kaprice G\ |
Isabella WILLIBALD(AUT) | 64.50 73.00 |
62.50 65.00 |
62.00 68.00 |
62.00 62.00 |
63.50 68.00 |
65.050 | ||||
| 14 | FS LOUIS LE BON - RHEINL. Stallion\Bay\1998\Lancer II x Mephistopheles\ |
Jana FREUND (GER) | 66.00 69.00 |
64.50 70.00 |
62.50 65.00 |
62.50 61.00 |
63.00 66.00 |
64.950 | ||||
| 15 | OSTRA - KWPN Gelding\Bay\1996\Indoctro x Aktion\ |
Claudia FASSAERT(BEL) | 56.00 61.00 |
61.00 66.00 |
64.50 68.00 |
62.00 62.00 |
60.00 65.00 |
62.550 |
A very interesting competition between Imke Schellekens-Bartels, Adelinde Cornelissen and Isabell Werth took place in the World Cup Qualifier in Mechelen. Not Cornelissen, neither Werth but Schellekens-Bartels reigned supreme on the Smarius family's 15-year old Hanoverian mare Sunrise. Schellekens scored 82.200% to win the class. "I'm very happy," she said," because I had planned on really giving it my all and it worked. Upon entering the ring I felt the right amount of tension to produce a spectacular kur."
Isabell Werth and Madeleine Winter-Schulze's huge Hanoverian gelding Warum Nicht FRH (by Weltmeyer) placed second on 81.65%. It was Werth's first competition since her FEI doping suspension and giving birth to her first son. Mechelen was also the setting for Werth's first confrontation with Adelinde Cornelissen since the 30-year Dutch girl won the individual gold medal at the 2009 European Championships in Windsor.
Cornelissen (and Gal) are currently considered the "unbeatable ones", but in Mechelen the cards were clearly reshuffled. Riding her brilliant Dutch warmblood gelding Parzival (by Jazz), Cornelissen started out very strongly in her freestyle scoring high for piaffe, passage and trot work. In the walk partParzival stuck out his tongue and he did not put it back in his mouth until after the final halt and salute. Sticking the tongue out is considered resistance in the submission and judged are forced to score each movement -2 when they see the tongue. However, a tremendous amount of confusion arose on the judges' panel as they had not seen Parzival stick his tongue out before. Dutch judge Jan Peeters seemed oblivious to the problem and still awarded the ride 73% on the technical level, while the other judges dropped to 63, 64 and 69%.
After her ride the level-headed Cornelissen commented the following to the KWPN press officer: "Such things can happen. It is what it is. Sticking out his tongue is by the way not a new problem. He does it when there is tension and then especially in the walk. It's a pity but not a disaster. Next time it'll be different."
Dutch born but Belgian based Jeannette Haazen finished third with her gigantic KWPN gelding Nartan (by Jazz). Riding to Latin inspired music, Haazen scored 77,85% to slot in third. "I don't think this is going to get me to the finals in Den Bosch," she told KWPN. "I have to be honest about it. We have too many strong Dutch combinations. But I won't quit and I keep trying."