All 15 horses have passed the CCI5* Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials final horse inspection this morning and proceed to the final showjumping phase – but the CCI4*-S loses three competitors.
The small five-star field presented before the ground jury of Britain’s Nick Burton, Austria’s Christian Steiner and Edith Scless-Stortenbecker of Germany, all looked fresh and well after yesterday’s cross-country. No one was sent to the holding box.
Seven nations remain represented in the five-star competition; Britain, France, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand and the USA.
Caroline Harris and D. Day pictured in the CCI5* Luhmühlen Horse Trials final horse inspection. Credit Peter Nixon.
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Britain holds the top two places going into the final phase. The pressure is on overnight leaders Caroline Harris and D. Day (owned by Lucy Matthews, Fiona Olivier, Marie Anne Richardson and Heather Royle) – they come forward on a score of 31.1.
Only 2.7 penalties separate Caroline and D. Day and Emily King with Valmy Biats, owned by Emily and her father David, who are on a two-phase score of 33.8. US rider Boyd Martin and Shanroe Cooley, owned by Dallac LLC, are in third on 38.1.
Brits Harry Horton and Cooley With Ambition, owned by Ballinger Equine and the Ambition Syndicate, are on their way to their first five-star completion. The pair are 10th going into the showjumping.
CCI4*-S Meßmer Trophy Luhmühlen Horse Trials final horse inspection
Forty horses were presented before the ground jury of Joachim Dimmek and Joanne Jarden in the CCI4*-S Meßmer Trophy.
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Two horses were sent to the holding box; Germany’s Anna Haag and her own Little Caterpillar and New Zealand’s Daniel Jocelyn with his own and Panda Christie’s Blackthorn Cruise. Both were accepted on re-inspection.
Finnish rider Axel Lindberg was asked to trot up Maria Lucander-Aminoff’s 11-year-old mare Quelle Bonne a second time, but was then passed.
Three horses did not come forward to the Luhmühlen Horse Trials final horse inspection. Hannah Klep and her own Tulara Chicouve and home side rider Felix Etzel withdrew Ulrike Malter’s TSF Polartanz. Hannah was 39th after the cross-country and Felix was in 12th. The other withdrawal is US rider Cosby Green, who was lying in ninth with her family’s Highly Suspicious.
Defending champions Germany’s Julia Krajewski and Uelzener’s Nickel are on the cusp of back-to-back wins, they go into the final phase on a score of 26.9. Julia and Nickel have a 4.2 penalty buffer ahead of Belgium’s Lara de Liederkerke-Meier and home-bred Kiarado D’Arville, owned by Five Star Eventers and Larga Sprl, who are in second on 31.1. Germany’s Malin Hansen-Hotopp and Bodil Ipsen’s 14-year-old Carlitos Quidditch K jumped proceed to the showjumping in provisional third, 33.8.
The CCI5* showjumping takes place at 10.25 UK time (11.25am local). The CCI4*-S showjumping begins at 1.10pm UK time (2.10pm local).
Since joining H&H in 2018, Becky has covered a broad range of equestrian news including welfare matters, veterinary studies, FEI Tribunal hearings and road safety campaigns. She has also interviewed top riders including Scott Brash, John Whitaker and Ian Stark, to name just a few. Becky’s reporting has taken her to Canada for Spruce Meadows and France for Pau five-star, as well as the Royal Highland and Blair Castle International Horse Trials closer to home. She was also a key part of the remote reporting team for the Tokyo Olympics and the Europeans.
