B F Utopia tops the Derby
Monday 15 August 2011
The eighth leg of the Global Champions Tour for 2011 took place in Valkenswaard, Netherlands this weekend.
Flying the flag for Great Britain in the €23,000 1.50m Derby was Hertfordshire based Ben Maher. Riding Rowena Gredley’s fifteen year old bay stallion B F Utopia Ben was drawn ninth to go out of nineteen starters. With only one clear ahead of him Ben knew he had to jump a quick clear to be in with a chance of picking up the top spot. Doing just that he jumped a superb clear in an unbeatable time of 115.62 seconds, over a second quicker than second placed Wout-Jan van der Schans from the Netherlands.
Valkenswaad (Ned)
Sunday 14th August 2011
Derby of Valkenswaard
1st Ben Maher riding B F Utopia – 0 in 115.62 seconds
2nd Wout-Jan Van Der Schans (Ned) riding P-Pilot – 0 in 116.91 seconds
3rd Eric Van Der Vleuten (Ned) riding VDL Groep Cannelina – 4 in 113.53 seconds
4th Leopold Van Asten (Ned) riding VDL Groep Issis du Marais – 4 in 115.35 seconds
5th Jur Vrieling (Ned) riding Puhr – 4 in 119.08 seconds
For full results fron the show and further detailson the Global Champions Tour please visit; http://www.globalchampionstour.com/
For full results fron the show and further detailson the Global Champions Tour please visit; http://www.globalchampionstour.com/
