Marcus Orlob & JJ Glory Day. Picture © SusanJStickle.com
Worldwide motion for the Adequan® World Dressage Competition (AGDF) 2023 season in Wellington, Florida wrapped up on Sunday, March 26. The grand champions have been topped in each the Lövsta Future Problem Younger Horse Grand Prix Sequence and the Buffalo Wild Wings Future Problem Younger Horse Prix St. Georges Sequence. These courses goal to establish and nurture proficient, up-and-coming younger FEI horses, giving them publicity to profit their growth with the most important of world phases in thoughts.
Competitors was extraordinarily sizzling within the small tour ranks, with the highest three within the area of eight starters all scoring over 71% — notably spectacular as these are younger, inexperienced horses on the degree.
It was the 41-year-old German-born American rider Marcus Orlob who rode Alice Tarjan’s JJ Glory Day (by Kastel’s Grand Galaxy Win x Deemster) to victory with a commanding 73.705% — together with a excessive rating of over 75% from one choose. At seven years outdated, Glory Day was the youngest horse within the class — the one seven-year-old — and the one stallion. This was simply his second ever Prix St. Georges check.
“I’ve had this horse for 3 years and since then I’m fairly amazed by him,” mentioned Orlob, who relies between Annandale, NJ and Loxahatchee, FL. “Each time I experience him it’s a pleasure. He needs to work. I believed a pair weeks in the past I might do that only for enjoyable and he was actually afraid the primary time.
“Now I feel he did fairly a clear check and the judges appeared to love it, so I’m actually comfortable. The modifications are extra confirmed [than they were a few weeks ago], and he was extra mature, with higher stability and straighter.”
Mares Rule Huge Tour Last
Within the massive tour ranks, rivals certified by driving an Intermediate II check, however for the ultimate they rode the Younger Horse Grand Prix check — which was a little bit of a shock for the eventual winner, Bianca Berktold on Imperial, when she double checked the evening earlier than.
“It’s good to learn the emails they ship you completely as a result of I believed I used to be doing an everyday Grand Prix, and final evening at 8pm I spotted it was a younger horse Grand Prix and that I’d by no means ridden a younger horse Grand Prix myself and I needed to Google it — however Imperial confirmed up and went in and was superb.”
The ten-year-old mare (by Charmeur x Vivaldi) belongs to Berktold and he or she has educated her up the degrees. The pair, who scored 69.973% to safe this 12 months’s title, received 5 small tour CDI courses on the 2022 version of AGDF.
“I’ve had her since she was two and a half, so it’s been a piece in progress,” added the 40-year-old. “I’m so fortunate to have her and he or she’s nonetheless inexperienced at this degree, however she’s coming collectively properly. She actually has a expertise for piaffe and passage and the lateral work is very easy for her, so it’s an extremely proficient horse.”
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