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 Friday 13th Dec. - Page 4 |
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It is now down to the final few Grand Prix horses who started this Grand Prix competition in order of the draw which was conducted at the cocktail party on Thursday evening. |
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| Centaur - such a personality !!! He and rider Ann Serrao have
really had a wonderful year and would be very correctly considered to be the very big
improvers on the Australian Grand Prix Dressage circuit. Centaur is not the usual 17 hand monster, but a pretty and petite 16 hands and well suits his rider who is tiny. Centaur recently took part in the Mane Event at Equitana and had the honour of carrying the special guest - Ulla Salzgeber. This test was not as good as I have seen them do with a few mistakes which easily could have been avoided. Things like the wrong number of steps in the schaukel (halt, rein back, walk forward, rein back) and at this level such errors are very costly. There was also a mistake in counting in the canter zig zag. But this is really looking to see where the marks went - it was still a pleasing score of 62% and gave them a very creditable 6th place. |
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 A well deserved pat for Crisp and the end of his wonderful test. |
| Crisp and Ricky McMillan are always a joy to watch and this was the best that I have seen them work! The canter changes were a highlight - so fluent, big and of course correct. The P{piaffe/Passage is a specialty and it was the best today. What more can I say ??? The score of 67.96% says it all and would have made the trip very worthwhile and rewarding for Ricky. | |
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| Mary Hanna and her World Equestrian Games partner Limbo put in a very nice performance. I felt that Limbo was a little tense as he was grinding his teeth a little. It is a very big atmosphere and so some tension is very understandable. The work was polished and the judges liked what they saw - a score of 65% is a great result at this level. | |
| Ricky McMillan goes through to the Freestyle test as the winner after the first leg of the CDI-W Australian Final. | |
 Hygain Stock Feeds are always supportive of Equestrian events ... |
 Everyone at this competition would be guilty of the above... |
 Kelato VIT - very well respected products for all performance horses. |
 Patons Machinery have everything for the horse owner on the land - they provided the 'Gator' which worked like a horse all day. |
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