Skarsoe and Rouyr with triple wins, Wagner-Ehlinger and Decruyenaere Haupert also among the best
At the end of June four Luxembourg dressage riders showed their full class at CDI competitions in Belgium and France. At the venue of last year’s European Championships the two Luxembourgers who competed there again made an impression: Fie Christine Skarsoe and Nicolas Wagner Ehlinger started in Crozet (F) and brought home several top placings. The latter, with Quater Back Junior, took 3rd place both in the Grand Prix and in the Grand Prix Special. With 68.174 percent he had to yield in the Grand Prix to winner Pauline Basquin of France on Sertorius de Rima (70.000 %) and to the Portuguese Vasco Mira Godinho on Marques dos Cedros (68.809 %). A total of 22 competitors started. In the Special the exact same two riders finished ahead of the Luxembourger. Basquin and “Sertorius” won that test with 69.851 percent, Mira Godinho and “Marques” were second with 69.404 percent, and Wagner Ehlinger with “Quater Back” was third with 69.042 percent.
Fie Christine Skarsoe competed in smaller classes at the same venue. There she was unbeatable on Forte Village three times: the CDI 1* Prix St. Georges was won by the pair with 70.823 percent. Rianne Ashley Ubels of the Netherlands was second on Living Legend (70.353 %), and third was Pauline Guillem (F) on Donatello Gold (69.353 %). The next day the top two places in the Intermédiaire I test were the same, Skarsoe scored 70.824 percent and Ashley Ubels 69.206 percent. Third in that test was Gabrielle Thompson from the United Arab Emirates on Landlord (65.235 %). Finally Skarsoe and Forte Village also won the Inter I freestyle: they finished on 73.466 percent, with Ashley Ubels again second (70.015 %), and third again Pauline Guillem, this time on Figari Gold (69.640 %).
In Sint-Truiden, Belgium, young Luxembourger Teo Rouyr also achieved a triple win in the CDIP competitions. With the Westphalian pony D’Ultimo the fifteen-year-old won the team competition with 69.715 percent ahead of Alice Ferrarini (I, Lykkehoejs Dream of Dornik, 68.143 %) and Angelina Stepanova (RUS, Orchid’s Syria, 67.143 %). The podium in the individual class the next day was occupied by the same riders in the same order, Stepanova this time third on Digeridoo (67.613 %). Rouyr won with 70.045 percent, Ferrarini was again second (68.919 %). The same order followed in the freestyle, where Rouyr, in a field of only three, claimed first with 74.975 percent. Ferrarini was again second (71.583 %) and Stepanova third (70.075 %).
At the same location seventeen-year-old Amélie Decruyenaere Haupert reached the podium three times with Finaud in various CDIJ classes. In the junior team competition she received 67.424 percent for her performance on her Hanoverian, placing her behind Daria Skrynnikova (RUS, Jupiter, 69.242 %) and Vasilisa Komissarova (CYP, Champagner, 68.535 %). Decruyenaere Haupert and Finaud finished the individual test even in 2nd place with 67.108 percent. That test was won by Sweden’s Iris von Ekensteen (Carla, 68.039 %), with Daria Skrynnikova third (Jupiter, 69.242 %). In the freestyle the Luxembourger was again third, in a field of only three (70.758 %). Von Ekensteen won (72.467 %), Skrynnikova was second (71.025 %).
Translated from German by AI and adjusted by Paul Krier. Original article also to be published in the “Lëtzebuerger Bauer” weekly newspaper.
