GB Finish joint 2nd in CSIO 5* Nations Cup, Gijon
Saturday 29 August 2015
It was a joint 2nd place finish for GB and Ireland in the CSIO5* Furusiyya Nations Cup at Gijon, Spain this afternoon under the guidance of World Class Performance Manager, Di Lampard.
France took the honours on the podium with their overall 4 penalty finish whilst both GB and Ireland sat one fence behind them on 8 penalties. Last week’s double-gold medallists at the European Championships in Aachen, The Netherlands, finished a fence behind on 12 penalties to slot into 4th place.
Team GB
It was a relatively new team competing in spain today for GB with Keith Shore from Northwich, Cheshire and his own bay gelding Mystic Hurricane taking the role of pathfinder. Winner of the British Masters earlier this summer, it was an unfortunate 8 penalty finish for them in both rounds which saw them become the drop score in Round 2.
Robert Bevis from Wrexham, Clwyd with his own consistent 14 year-old grey gelding Courtney Z delivered a superb double clear within the time allowed to post a zero penalty score in each round. Their performance was very quickly mirrored by Joe Clayton, from Huddersfield with Simon Davies’ 9 year-old grey gelding Velini who put in a foot-perfect clear in each round to come home on a zero score.
Anchor rider, Laura Renwick with Colin Bates’ Heliodor Hybris, an 8 year-old chestnut gelding incurred a 16 penalty finish in the first round to become the drop score. However their return for the second round saw them produce a brilliant clear enabling GB to finish on just their 8 penalty total from the first round.
Talking from Las Mestas Sports Centre in Gijon, Di Lampard commented ‘Today has been a great competition and all of the horses have really stepped up to the plate. To have five clear rounds out of eight is quite something especially when all the horses are still finding their feet at this level. There was less than a handful of double clears achieved today and two of them were from our team. I’m delighted”.
The Grand Prix takes place on Monday 31st August at 13:00 hours local time.
Further information on the show and for results once the show is underway can be found by visiting www.csio.gijon.es .Full information in respect of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup series can be found by visiting www.fei.org.
FEI TV will be showing live footage from the event, to access this please visit www.feitv.org. The programme will also be shown at a later date on Horse & Country TV. Please visit www.britishshowjumping.co.uk and click on ‘What’s on TV’ for broadcast times.
The British Showjumping Teams are supported by the UK Sport National Lottery funded World Class Programme.
The World Class Development Programme underpins World Class Performance and, together with the Equine Pathway, they comprise the Equestrian World Class Programme, incorporating the three Olympic sports of dressage, eventing, showjumping and the Paralympic sport of para-equestrian dressage. The Programme has been funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, through Exchequer and National Lottery funds, via UK Sport since 1998.
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