Horses Are Exquisite Animals: Victoria Max-Theurer & Augustin OLD capture Fritzens CDI4* Grand Prix, Britain’s Michael Eilberg & Marakov 2nd on Personal Best

Victoria Max-Theurer and Augustin OLD. © Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com

FRITZENS, Austria, June 27, 2015–Austria’s star rider Victoria Max-Theurer competing Augustin OLD for the first time since the World Games 10 months ago, won the Grand Prix qualifier for the Freestyle at the Manfred Swarovski Memorial Tournamen CDI4* Saturday.

Vici and the 15-year-old Oldenburg stallion that she rode at the 2012 Olympics as well as the 2009, 2011 and 2013 European Championships, scored 75.800 per cent for the win that was a repeat of last year’s performance here.

Great Britain’s Michael Eilberg on Marakov placed second on 73.600 per cent, a Grand Prix personal best for the British team rider and the 15-year-old Latvian-bred gelding who have been a Big Tour partnership for five years.

Germany’s Isabell Werth on El Santo NRW was third on 72.920 per cent.

Results:

Grand Prix qualifier for Freestyle						(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total

1.	64	Augustin OLD	Max-Theurer, Victoria	AUT	2200.00 EUR	378.0	378.0	380.5	378.0	380.5	1895.0 points
	B 15y.H /August der Starke/Rohdiamant/OLD/AUT05018/ Elisabeth May-Theurer & Spons					75.600 %	75.600 %	76.100 %	75.600 %	76.100 %	75.800 %
						1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

2.	10	Marakov	Eilberg, Michael	GBR	1400.00 EUR	356.5	363.5	374.0	371.5	374.5	1840.0 points
	BAY 15y.W /Rufs/Mitjulands/GBR42667/ Mr F Eilberg					71.300 %	72.700 %	74.800 %	74.300 %	74.900 %	73.600 %
						4.	2.	2.	2.	2.

3.	56	El Santo NRW	Werth, Isabell	GER	1000.00 EUR	368.0	356.0	374.0	361.0	364.0	1823.0 points
	BAY 14y.W /Ehrentusch/Rythmus/RHEIN/GER44504/ Madeleine Winter-Schulze + Isabell					73.600 %	71.200 %	74.800 %	72.200 %	72.800 %	72.920 %
						2.	4.	2.	3.	3.

4.	43	Kaiserkult TSF	Schneider, Dorothee	GER	800.00 EUR	361.5	356.0	346.0	356.5	353.0	1773.0 points
	BAY 17y.H /Van Deyk/Gajus/TRAK/GER28230/ BG Schneider & Zotzel					72.300 %	71.200 %	69.200 %	71.300 %	70.600 %	70.920 %
						3.	4.	6.	4.	4.

5.	61	For Compliment	Wientzek Pläge, Birgit	SUI	500.00 EUR	344.5	358.5	354.5	345.5	341.0	1744.0 points
	BAY 11y.H /Fidermark/Prh Compliment/RHEIN/103CT22/ Wientzek Pl§ge Birgit					68.900 %	71.700 %	70.900 %	69.100 %	68.200 %	69.760 %
						6.	3.	4.	5.	9.

6.	22	Fontalero	Henschen, Veronique	LUX	400.00 EUR	345.0	345.5	350.5	343.0	347.0	1731.0 points
	BAY 18y.W /Werther/Weltmeyer/HANN/GER22242/ Monique Henschen-Haas					69.000 %	69.100 %	70.100 %	68.600 %	69.400 %	69.240 %
						5.	6.	5.	6.	5.

7.	46	Romeo-Star	Sidneva, Elena	RUS	300.00 EUR	339.0	344.0	340.0	327.5	347.0	1697.5 points
	BAY 14y.H /Romantic Star/Mister A/HANN/RUS40441/ Mrs. Ludmila Dmitrieva					67.800 %	68.800 %	68.000 %	65.500 %	69.400 %	67.900 %
						8.	8.	7.	13.	5.

8.	37	Don Daiquiri	Pavicic, Karen	CAN	300.00 EUR	340.0	327.0	336.0	332.5	344.5	1680.0 points
	DBAY 13y.W /Don Cardinale/Rubinstein I/OLDBG/103BS52/ Jayne Essig & Karen Pavicic					68.000 %	65.400 %	67.200 %	66.500 %	68.900 %	67.200 %
						7.	12.	9.	10.	7.

9.	54	Fantomas	Weihermüller, Stefanie	GER	300.00 EUR	325.5	334.0	337.5	335.5	342.5	1675.0 points
	CHEST 17y.W /Florestan I/Pilot/WESTF/SUI09173/ Weihermªller, Michael Dr.					65.100 %	66.800 %	67.500 %	67.100 %	68.500 %	67.000 %
						11.	10.	8.	8.	8.

10.	20	Dorina	Haim-Swarovski, Evelyn	AUT	300.00 EUR	331.5	326.5	334.5	336.0	327.0	1655.5 points
	BAY 13y.S /Blue Hors Don Schufro/Ragtime/DWB/102QL22/ Evelyn Haim-Swarovski					66.300 %	65.300 %	66.900 %	67.200 %	65.400 %	66.220 %
						9.	13.	10.	7.	11.

Other, non-placed competitors

11.	33	Awakening	Miloserdova, Tatiana	RUS		321.0	344.5	329.5	334.5	325.5	1655.0 points
	DBAY 10y.S /Sandreo/Welt Hit II/KWPN/104EP15/ Miloserdova, Tatiana					64.200 %	68.900 %	65.900 %	66.900 %	65.100 %	66.200 %
						12.	7.	12.	9.	12.

12.	25	XXXL Rubinio NRW	Hoffmann, Jennifer	USA		315.0	334.5	333.5	332.5	329.0	1644.5 points
	BLACK 12y.H /Rubin-Royal/Florestan I/WESTF/USA42518/ Jennifer Hoffmann					63.000 %	66.900 %	66.700 %	66.500 %	65.800 %	65.780 %
						14.	9.	11.	10.	10.

13.	48	Harmonia	Soldi, Ester	ITA		326.5	327.5	323.5	327.0	325.5	1630.0 points
	BAY 16y.S /Lord Alexander/Hars/102QI19/ Soldi Ester					65.300 %	65.500 %	64.700 %	65.400 %	65.100 %	65.200 %
						10.	11.	13.	14.	12.

14.	62	Quantico	Zach, Timna	AUT		318.0	322.0	322.5	330.5	318.5	1611.5 points
	CHEST 16y.W /Quattro B/World Cup I/OLDBG/GER43129/ Zach Ausbildungsstall GmbH					63.600 %	64.400 %	64.500 %	66.100 %	63.700 %	64.460 %
						13.	14.	14.	12.	14.

15.	21	Wolkenritter	Hartung, Amanda	AUT		306.5	302.0	305.0	320.0	318.0	1551.5 points
	CHEST 13y.H /Wolkentanz/Hitchcock/HANN/103HD27/ Amanda Hartung					61.300 %	60.400 %	61.000 %	64.000 %	63.600 %	62.060 %
						17.	17.	15.	15.	15.

16.	53	Stuntmann Af Hvarre	Vaughan, Joanne	GEO		312.5	319.0	301.5	307.5	308.0	1548.5 points
	BLACK 15y.W /Stravinsky XX/Aleksander/103KA04/ Joanne Vaughan					62.500 %	63.800 %	60.300 %	61.500 %	61.600 %	61.940 %
						15.	15.	16.	18.	16.

17.	63	Trevis	Sigismondi, Fabrizio	CZE		307.5	307.5	294.0	309.5	295.5	1514.0 points
	DB 10y.H /Topas-8/Fleming S.V./SOWA/104CH37/ Pospisil Josef					61.500 %	61.500 %	58.800 %	61.900 %	59.100 %	60.560 %
						16.	16.	17.	17.	17.

18.	87	Graffiti	Schaurte, Christiane	BIH		291.0	293.0	293.5	319.0	287.5	1484.0 points
	CHEST 14y.W /BEL41330/ Schaurte, CHristiane					58.200 %	58.600 %	58.700 %	63.800 %	57.500 %	59.360 %
						18.	18.	18.	16.	18.