Friday, 07 September 2012 CDN-A Alps-Adriatic Dressage Trophy Final 2012

These were our Alps-Adriatic Dressage Trophy winning pairs on Friday

Early on Friday morning, the beginners again opened the Alps-Adriatic Dressage Trophy with the two A class sections. It was to be a wonderful day of competition at the Glock Horse Performance Center in Treffen (Carinthia). With her eight-year-old mare Dark Temptation, a great improvement on yesterday's performance and no less than 68.551%, Carinthia's Tamara Vogelleitner secured her second win in thefirst beginners section (under 16s) this morning ahead of Livia Steiner (Carinthia) on Galliano (66.594%) and Julia Hundertpfund (Carinthia) on Rodriguez JH (65.072%). Results link

Yesterday she had to be content with second place but today the happy winning pair in the second section for over 16s is Petra Strack and Welt Hit son Weltprinz with 66.884%. Jacqueline Wagner (Styria) on Lamona achieved 65.507% to take second place. Results link

In the Junior Team event at L level, Carinthia's Kathrin Brugger then scored 67.586% for her L dressage with Welsh pony Selmartin which put her in front of Petra Strack (Carinthia) on her six-year-old stallion Ricardo. Results link

Yesterday she was still running second, but today she clinched it. In the LM dressage the majority of the judges put Marlies Mangge (Carinthia) in the lead today, giving her and her 11-year-old Friesian mare Friederika WK a total of 67.833%. Second and third place went to Italy's Laura Serafin with Demon's Delight (67.250%) and Christina Dow (Styria) with her Frederic von Bayern (67.083%). Results link

Her stunning performance convinced all three judges that she deserved to win the M class in the Junior Individual. As yesterday, the radiant winning pair was Caroline Kottas-Heldenberg on her nine-year-old stallion APT's Darius Royal with 70.526%, closely followed by the Styrians Angelika Kögl with Diogenes' son Daedalos (69.211%) and Jacqueline Toniutti with Sandrose (68.772%). Results link

Third yesterday, first today: Caroline Kottas-Heldenberg impressed the whole jury in the S class taking top spot with the ten-year-old De Niro daughter Dark Rose. The Viennese attained a total score of 69.781%, which put the winner of yesterday's S dressage, Karin Kosak (Styria) with Florentino (68.684%), into second place. For Carinthia 20-year-old Timna Zach again put on a tremendous show. She took third place (67.193%) with a harmonious performance on the nine-year-old gelding Glock's Womanizer. Results link

All results here

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