Atterupgaards Cassidy and Cathrine Dufour during 2017 Danish national championships. Photo credit: H2R
Today´s Grand Prix Special was dominated by the Swedish Ramel sisters, both trained by Patrik Kittel.
Juliette Ramal still has her hand full for some moments during the test today, but this horse Buriel K.H. just show so much qualities "in between" with extraordinary expressive passage, smooth transitions, sharp active piaffe tours and outstanding pirouettes. 75,532%
And today the sister of Juliette, Antonia Ramel with her gelding Brother de Jeu took the 2nd place. This combination was also at start earlier this year at CDI3 in Herning DEN, and since that time they´ve gained a lot of confidence, and now being able to show their test with both high qualities and just a few minor issues.
Very exciting times for both girls for the next months towards WEG selection.
Both Danish combinations did good tests with a few minor issues, but kept the silver position for the Danish team.
If you want to watch the entire Grand Prix Special you will find the Youtube link below.
Move the timeline to 51:50 to watch Ulrik Mølgaard / Michigan (DEN), 1:44.40 Juliette Ramel / Buriel K.H. (SWE), and to 2:05:40 for Anders Dahl / Selten HW (DEN).
Again today Cassidy and Cathrine showed their strength being individual winner of the Grand Prix freestyle with their new freestyle.
Super intense with lots of transitions and super power, high degree of difficulty. Just a small issue going into the one times where it looks like Cassidy misunderstands the signal and instead doing transition to trot, but Cathrine catch the canter quickly and makes a line of superb one times. 84,250%.
Watch the test from Cassidy and Dufour at the time 1:41:40. Right after is Patrik Kittel with Well Done de la Roche scoring 78,950% (from H2R point of view a clear +80% test), and placed 3rd is Gareth Hughes with Classic Briolinca (76,825%) - they are right after Kittel.