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Spectacular Gymnastics Expected When FEI World Cup Vaulting Season Opens in Munich

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Switzerland’s Simone Jäiser vaulting on Luk heads the rankings in the female competition. (Photo: Daniel Kaiser/FEI)

Lausanne (SUI), 30 October 2012 – The FEI World Cup Vaulting 2012/2013 series opens with the first of five qualifiers in Munich (GER) this week (1-4 November), when 15 athletes from seven nations will battle it out at the Olympic arena and show Individual Freestyle-to-Music routines including extraordinary gymnastic moves. The next stop for the world’s most talented horse acrobats will be one month later, when the legs in Salzburg (AUT), from 6-9 December, and Paris (FRA), from 7-8 December, run parallel. World Cup points can also be collected in Leipzig (GER), from 17-20 January, and Bordeaux (FRA), 8-10 February.

The FEI World Cup Vaulting series is open to the world’s top male and female vaulters, with the best three results counting towards the classification for the Final. The six female and male vaulters with the highest scores will then come together at the FEI World Cup Vaulting 2012/2013 Final in Braunschweig (GER), which runs from 14-17 March 2013.

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Boyd Exell Starts in Top Form in Hannover

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Boyd Exell (AUS) was in top form in Hannover. ©Rinaldo de Craen/FEI.

Hannover (GER), 28 October 2012 – Four-time FEI World Cup Driving Champion Boyd Exell (AUS) had an excellent start of the FEI World Cup Driving’s 12th season in Hannover, Germany this weekend. Exell and his team of horses were in top form and they performed as if their last World Cup competition had taken place only last week and not eight months ago at the previous season’s Final held in Bordeaux (FRA) in February. Exell won the opening leg in Hannover ahead of IJsbrand Chardon (NED) and Tomas Eriksson (SWE).

Exciting Winning Round
Boyd Exell drove a very fast and clear first round and challenged Chardon who followed him in the arena. Chardon drove his team of Lipizzaner horses at high speed throughout the course, but had one knockdown and was unable to beat Exell’s time.

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Cornelissen Leads Dutch Domination at Odense

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Adelinde Cornelissen steered Jerich Parzival to win the opening leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2012/2013 series. Photo: FEI/Annette Boe Østergaard.

Odense (DEN), 21 October 2012 – Dutch riders claimed the first two places in the opening leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2012/2013 series at Odense in Denmark today where defending champions, Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival, scored a convincing victory.

Edward Gal, series champion in 2010 with Totilas, lined up second with Blue Hors Romanov while Danish riders filled the next two places.  Anna Kasprzak, at 22 years of age the youngest competitor in today’s Freestyle, pipped the considerably more experienced partnership of Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Digby when slotting into third, while Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven and Don Auriello lined up fifth for Sweden.

It was an exciting test from Cornelissen whose career highlights include back-to-back Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage titles in 2011 and 2012, double gold at the 2011 European Championships, and individual silver at this summer’s Olympic Games in London, all partnering the chestnut gelding who, at 15 years of age, still sparkles.

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Bost Celebrates His Birthday with Super Victory in Helsinki

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Roger Yves Bost celebrated his 47th birthday today with victory in the second leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping 2012/2013 Western European League. Photo: FEI/Tapio Mäenpää.

Helsinki (FIN), 21 October 2012 – Roger Yves Bost celebrated his 47th birthday in style when clinching maximum points in the second qualifying leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping Western European League at Helsinki, Finland today.  Riding Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois, the enigmatic Frenchman whose jumping technique often seems to defy the laws of gravity, produced another one of his trademark heart-stopping rounds to pip Spain’s Sergio Alvarez Moya and Carlo in a nail-biting 14-horse jump-off.  Jeroen Dubbeldam and BMC Utascha, winners of the opening round at Oslo a week ago, had to settle for third place this time out. But the Dutchman now holds a strong lead at the top of the series table. With 35 points already to his credit, he only needs one more strong result to ensure his spot at the final in Gothenburg, Sweden next April.

The start-list was reduced from 40 to 39 due to the late withdrawal of Finland’s Mikael Forsten who broke his hand when landing awkwardly over a fence in an earlier class at his home fixture this morning.  This was very bad luck indeed, as he is not long recovered from a broken arm sustained while competing in the Grand Prix at Hagen, Germany last year.

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Star-studded Line-up for Opening Leg of New Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Series

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Defending champions, Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival, will be striving for their third consecutive Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage title. Photo: Kit Houghton/FEI

Lausanne (SUI), 16 October 2012 – Double-Dutch champions Adelinde Cornelissen and her great gelding Parzival will head up a star-studded field for the opening leg of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2012/2013 series at Odense, Denmark next weekend.

The collection of early points on the road to the series Final that will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden next April is always desirable. And while defending champion Cornelissen needs only to show that both she and her bright-chestnut horse are in competitive form, the partnership that claimed individual silver at this summer’s London Olympic Games will surely be the ones to beat. They will face strong opposition, however, from some of the other big names of this sport which continues its development, and dramatic growth in popularity, with every passing year.

Helen Langehanenberg (GER) was runner-up at the 2011/2012 Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Final in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, last April. And Ground Jury President, Ghislain Fouarge, said that day that it was a very close call between the German rider who stood second and the winner, Cornelissen, whose degree of difficulty in the programme of movements selected for her Freestyle test gave her the advantage. Langehanenberg is also scheduled to line out at this weekend’s season-opener to the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage series in which riders compete in a preliminary Grand Prix to decide the order of go for the following day’s Freestyle which stands alone in deciding the end result.

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Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Title Sponsorship Extended to 2016

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Adelinde Cornelissen (NED) and Jerich Parzival, winners of the of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup 2012. © Kit Houghton/FEI

Lausanne (SUI), 3 October 2012 – The FEI is delighted to announce that Reem Acra, the internationally renowned fashion designer, has signed a new contract extending her title sponsorship of the FEI World Cup Dressage Western European League and Final for a further three-year cycle until 2016.

The New York based designer, who has dressed some of Hollywood’s top stars in her classic couture, including Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift and Eva Longoria, became title sponsor of the FEI World Cup Dressage Western European League and of the FEI World Cup Final at the start of the 2010/2011 World Cup season.

The current contract with Ms Acra runs until the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Final 2013, which will be held in Gothenburg (SWE), and the new agreement will then run through to the end of the 2015/2016 series, including the Final.

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Orange Gold, Silver and Bronze at Breda

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The Dutch team with coach Harry de Ruyter not only won the nations competition in Breda (NED), but also kept the individual podium orange with IJsbrand Chardon, Theo Timmerman and Koos the Ronde in first, second and third places. (Rinaldo de Craen/FEI)

Breda (NED), 3 September 2012 – Dutch team members IJsbrand Chardon, Theo Timmerman and Koos de Ronde have continued their success story at the nations competition in Breda in their home country. The Dutch team not only won team gold again, but also claimed the complete individual podium. IJsbrand Chardon won, Theo Timmerman was the runner-up and Koos de Ronde made it a Dutch whitewash, having beaten Germany’s Christoph Sandmann by just 0.01 penalty points in the final cones competition.

The three Dutch drivers have made up the winning team at nearly every nations competition, European and World Championships since 2010. After the CAIO Aachen and the World Championships in Riesenbeck, they struck again in Breda, leaving the other teams trailing in their wake. Breda was also the second to last qualifier for the FEI World Cup Driving and the stage for the Dutch national four-in-hand Championships.

Dutch battle
Breda turned out to be a battle between the Dutch, with the clash starting in the dressage when Riesenbeck bronze medallist IJsbrand Chardon ended the day in first place with the same points as Theo Timmerman, with Christoph Sandmann in third.

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Felix Vogg (SUI) Wins FEI World Cup Eventing 2012 Title

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CORRECTION:
A recalculation of the points for the FEI World Cup Eventing has revealed that Switzerland’s Felix Vogg has won the 2012 title, not Karin Donckers (BEL) as previously advised. Please note corrected copy below.

Switzerland's Felix Vogg, winner of the FEI World Cup Eventing title for 2012. (Photo: FEI/Jean Morel)

Lausanne (SUI), 29 August 2012 – Switzerland’s Felix Vogg has won the FEI World Cup Eventing 2012 title. The 22-year-old finished the World Cup season on 86 points, level with Belgium’s Karin Donckers, but under the series rules, in the event of equality, the rider with the highest placing is declared the winner and Vogg’s second place finish in Strzegom (POL) has secured him the title and the winner’s cheque of €9,000.

Felix Vogg competed at three World Cup fixtures during the 2012 series – Strzegom, Malmö (SWE), where he finished seventh and 11th, and Haras du Pin (FRA), where he finished 12th. With only the three best performances counting, Vogg’s 38 points from Strzegom and 48 (28/20) from his two Malmö placings bettered the 18 earned in Haras du Pin and the points from the French fixture were dropped from his tally, leaving him on 86.

Karin Donckers also ended the FEI World Cup Eventing season on 86 points, after finishing third, eighth and ninth in Haras du Pin, to leave her second overall in the series.

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Karin Donckers Is 2012 FEI World Cup Eventing Champion

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Karin Donckers (BEL), seen here en route to third place with Lamicell Charizard, claimed a top-10 placing with each of her three horses at Haras du Pin (FRA) to win the FEI World Cup Eventing title for 2012. (Photo: FEI/Jean Morel)

Lausanne (SUI), 27 August 2012 – Karin Donckers, Belgium’s leading lady rider, can add the 2012 FEI World Cup Eventing title to her long list of honours after scoring three top 10 places in a highly successful raid at Haras du Pin (FRA), the final leg of the season.

She was third on the 12-year-old thoroughbred Lamicell Charizard, a horse Donckers bought as a two-year-old at a racing sales in Germany, and eighth and ninth on two eight-year-olds, Lamicell Unique and Extebaria Van’t Verahof.

The first rider to win the FEI World Cup Eventing title, worth €9,000 this season, through scoring all points in just one outing, Donckers finished just two points ahead of Swiss rider Felix Vogg, who had headed the leaderboard after Malmö (SWE) earlier this month.

Vogg earned points at three events: Strzegom (POL), where he was the runner-up, Malmö, where he was seventh, and Haras du Pin, where he finished 12th with Onfire.

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Gallego Takes Title for Colombia

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Juan Manuel Gallego claimed gold for Colombia at the FEI World Jumping Challenge Final 2012 in Caracas, Venezuela yesterday. He is pictured riding Carnida Z which took the prize for Best Horse of the tournament. Photo: FEI/Venezuela NF.

Caracas (VEN), 18 June 2012 – Colombia’s Juan Manuel Gallego claimed gold at the 2012 FEI World Jumping Challenge Final in Caracas, Venezuela yesterday.  The silver medal went to Ecuador’s Rodrigo Bermeo Andrade, while Zimbabwe’s Charley Crockart pipped the host nation’s Emanuel Andrade for the bronze.

The event began at the Lagunita Country Club last Wednesday with the opening ceremony followed by a draw for the pool of horses, and Gallego’s first stroke of good fortune came when he was partnered with Carnida Z, who rounded up a superb week by claiming the special award for Best Horse of the tournament.

Competitors from 15 countries – Colombia, Ecuador, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Iran, South Africa, India, Chile, Bermuda, Jamaica, Indonesia, Mauritius and Costa Rica – lined out in the battle for the coveted title.

FIRST STAGED

The FEI World Jumping Challenge Final was first staged in 2001 by PSI, the company created by German champion rider, trainer and businessman Paul Schockemohle who has been instrumental in providing horses for, and developing the skills of, many of today’s top equestrian athletes.

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