Andreas Dibowski Leads Pau, Two Americans in Top Six

William Fox-Pitt and Seacookie TSF. Photo by François Queyroux. William Fox-Pitt and Seacookie TSF. Photo by François Queyroux.

The first day of CCI4* dressage at Les Etoiles de Pau has just concluded, with Andreas Dibowski and FRH Butts Avedon leading the way in the early going on a score of 40.7, just narrowly edging last year’s winner William Fox-Pitt and Seacookie TSF in second place on 41.8. Belgium’s Julien Despontin and Waldano 36 rounding out the top three on 43.7.

Two of our four Americans are enjoying spots in the top six, with Lauren Kieffer and Veronica sitting in fourth place on 44.2, which bests their score of 46.7 from Rolex. Friend of EN John Kyle spoke to Lauren today to get her thoughts on her test and how Pierre Michelet’s cross country course compares to Derek di Grazia’s track in Kentucky:

Wundermaske conquered his dressage demons from Rolex, where the atmosphere really upset him, to vastly improve on his previous four-star score, delivering 48.7 with Sharon White for sixth place provisionally. “Patch” jumped double clear cross country in his first CCI4* at Rolex this spring.

Erin Sylvester and No Boundaries were the second to last pair to go today, scoring 59.3 to sit in 17th place at the halfway point in the class. “Bucky” was feeling very full of himself, bucking through a change, though he settled nicely after that for some 7s and 8s in the remainder of the canter work.

Two more North American combinations will go tomorrow, starting with Kathryn Robinson and Let It Bee, the sole Canadian pair competing at Pau, at 8:48 a.m. EST, with Clark Montgomery and Universe going in the final group of the day at 9:20 a.m. EST. Clark also spoke to FEI TV, and you can watch the interview here:

You can watch dressage live tomorrow on FEI TV, though there is no commentary, and the feed was spotty today, going dark for all of Sharon’s test or the majority of Lauren’s. Fingers crossed those technical bugs won’t be an issue tomorrow.

Pau posted a full preview of Pierre Michelet’s cross country course on Facebook, so be sure to click here to check out the photos. Joanie Morris is posting photos of the American’s on the USEF Eventing High Performance Facebook page, which you can see here.

Go Eventing.

Update: EN reader Elizabeth Crowder posted this link, which she said is a much better, free live stream. If you have trouble with FEI TV tomorrow, try this one!

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