The show jumping has just concluded Sunday afternoon in Adelaide and here is a recap from the amazing John Lechner of the Eventing Safety blog. Like all of us, John is already headed home for work bright and early on Monday. We will have much more from John soon including a full recap and his interview with the incredible Hamish and Dave. John uses his video camera to interview the riders with a great deal of success, but click here for a quick video to get a feel for the show jumping arena and crowd. Thanks for writing this John and thank you for reading.
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From John Lechner:
Wow, what an exciting finish, only two riders had a double clear–Wendy Schaeffer and Chris Burton. Wendy was victorious taking away the southern hemisphere’s only Four Star Event, Adelaide. Wendy finished just 0.4 penalties above her dressage score completing the event on Koyuna Sun Dancer with 57.2 penalties. Close behind Wendy on his 2008 Adelaide Champion mount was Chris Burton and Newsprint on 57.7, Chris also took out the CCI2* event on Haruzac.
Wendy rounded out the top three with her second mount Koyuna Sun Shine on 63.2. I talked with the TD Andy Griffiths before showjumping and he said he expected only three or so ‘double clear’ rounds and he was sure Wendy would be one of those. Wendy has actually only just returned for a stint in Europe hoping to vie for a place on the Australian Jumping Team for WEG. Her skill as a jumper certainly paid off.
1. Wendy Schaeffer and Koyuna Sun Dancer +0 57.2
2. Christopher Burton and Newsprint +0 57.7
3. Wendy Schaeffer and Koyuna Sun Shine +0 63.2
4. Heath Ryan and Mystery Whisper +4 65.5
5. Stuart Tinney and Watermark Grayson +13 69.7
6. Emma Mason and F1 Pharinelli +20 72.8
Link: Full Adelaide Results
Unfortunately overnight leader Emma Mason who started her round only one rail ahead of Wendy took out the first fence and then proceeded to drop another 4 finishing with 20 jumping penalties after her round, dropping her to 6th place on 72.8. Heath Ryan moved up a place to fourth place finishing on 65.5 after an almost perfect jumping round. Stuart Tinney who entered the ring in second place dropped three rails to move Watermark Grayson back to 5th place on 69.7 penalties.
In the CCI 2* Chris Burton narrowly beat Young Rider Tegan Lush who travelled nearly 1700 miles from Western Australia to take out second place and the 2010 Bates Young Rider Championship. Third place was secured by veteran rider Sandy Lucas, owned by a very proud Meredith & Peter Tillett. Katie Redmond and the very fit looking True Blue Toozac finished in 10th place in the field of 41.
Chris after his CCI2* ride:
Olympian Shane Rose won the CIC2* on his Stratford Neo with a score of 47.9, ahead of Robert Palm on Koko Black with 50.8 and Tim Boland on Mercator Du Ry with 54.3.
