At
the end of the first day of Dressage Pippa Funnell, one of Great Britain's star
eventers who was left out of the WEG Team with Primmore's Pride, when he did not
scan to the selector's satisfaction after coming back
from a lay off, leads the Blenheim CCI*** after the first day of Dressage with
Ensign on a score of 40.4. (Pippa and Ensign are pictured at the left in the
Dressage Phase at Badminton last May.)
Ensign
fell at the Hay Wagon at the Badminton CCI****, in May, with Pippa, who first
said that Ensign had been distracted by a photo camera on a four wheeler, and
later admitted that it had been she who had been distracted. Since then Ensign
has placed 11th at the CIC*** at Hartpury and 4th at Wilton in the Advanced. Jeanette
Brakewell, also left out of the team for Aachen with Over To You, dropped to second
riding Equinox Sidewinder. William
Fox-Pitt, a member of the Silver Medal Team at the WEG riding Tamarillo, came
home to ride Birthday Night to 3rd place at Blenheim on a score of 47.3. Bonnie
Mosser and Close The Deal, the only American pair to ride on Thursday, is tied
for 7th with Richard Waygood. Both of their scores are 52.1. (36
competitors completed their Dressage on Thursday.) *
* * At
the Lunch Break, with 22 competitors having completed their Dressage on Thursday,
Jeanette Brakewell, who was left out of the British Team for the WEG with Over
To You after the pair placed fourth at Badminton this spring, leads the Dressage
at Blenheim riding Equinox Sidewinder.. America's
Bonnie Mosser, of Pennsylvania, stands fifth with Rebecca Polan's Close The Deal.
This pair finished third at the Jersey Fresh CCI*** earlier this year. Ground
Jury:
David Lee (IRE), President (C)
Christian Landolt (SWE) (E)
Jane
Tolley (GBR) (M) 1.
Pippa Funnell, ENSIGN,
177 179 170 = 40.4
2.
Jeanette Brakewell,
EQUINOX SIDEWINDER, 165  163
167 = 46.9
3. William Fox-Pitt, BIRTHDAY NIGHT - 160 163 170 = 47.3
4. Olivia Haddow, PATRIS FILIUS, 160 174 156 = 47.9
6. Rodney Powell,
MAJOR SWEEP, 159 163 160 = 49.6
6. Neil Spratt (NZL), HAKA, 157 162
155 = 51.3
7T. Bonnie Mosser (USA), CLOSE
THE DEAL, 159 150 161 = 52.1 (Bonnie and Close The Deal are pictured at the
right at Jersey Fresh, this spring.)
7T. Richard Waygood, MASTER
FRED 157 159 154 = 52.1
9. Caron Myles, TOKEN GESTURE, 155 156 157 =
52.5
10. Rebecca Gibbs, ARIEL SPIRIT, 155 151 156 = 53.7
(Scores
are posted E-C-M.) |
