The 2011 FEI World Cup Finals in Leipzig, Germany begin today.
The FEI World Cup Finals are the Final of four World Cups in different Equestrian sports. They are held in the exhibition halls 1 and 3 at the new Leipzig Trade Fair beginning today April 27 and ending May 1, 2011.
The 2011 FEI World Cup Finals are notable, because for the first time ever four horse sport World Cup Finals will be held at the same place.
The four divisions to be held at the finals are:
Dressage – Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2010/2011
Show Jumping – Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping 2010/2011
Four-in-hand driving – FEI World Cup Driving 2010/2011
Vaulting – FEI World Cup Vaulting 2010/2011
Watch this excellent video of Dutch Dressage Star Adelinde Cornelissen Winning her 4th FEI Dressage World Cup qualifier in Goteborg Sweden.
As reported recently by horsesport.org, Adelinde Cornelissen once again dominated.
Adelinde Cornelissen and Jerich Parzival recorded their fourth victory of the 2010/2011 Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Dressage season at Gothenburg, Sweden tonight and jumped to the top of the Western European League leaderboard ahead of the final qualifier on their home turf at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands in three weeks’ time.
The 32 year old rider and her 14 year old horse produced a more harmonious test than ever before, and Cornelissen declared herself delighted with the result. Sweden’s Patrik Kittel finished a close second however with a personal-best result from his stallion Watermill Scandic HBC while Germany’s Isabell Werth and Warum Nicht FRH had to settle for third.
In a competition that was very much “a game of two halves”, many of the early riders produced low scores. Ground Jury President, The Netherlands’ Wim Ernes, said “tonight we saw some bad tests….but the top riders did a good job”. He added “we saw today in the first group, a lot of riders who did not have enough impulsion and so made a lot of mistakes”.
