Anky van Grunsven and Keltec Salinero Take Second Straight Victory
by Kenneth Braddick, Special Report provided by PhelpsSports.com
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 23, 2006 -- Anky van Grunsven and Keltec
Salinero made it a double victory by winning the Grand Prix Special at the Rotterdam CHIO Friday night, a day after their world record Grand Prix. And Isabell Werth on Warum Nicht FRH was second, as she was in the Grand Prix Thursday.
The score for van Grunsven and Keltec Salinero of The Netherlands in the more demanding Grand Prix Special was 76.60 percent, with all five judges again placing her in first place.
The Werth-Warum Nicht FRH combination of Germany scored 73.52 percent. Keltec Salinero appeared far more tense than Thursday, and made some mistakes.
Sjef Janssen, van Grunsven's trainer-husband, said that the horse still reacts to a noisy environment, and the Friday night party atmosphere provided plenty of that. Van Grunsven, he said, "had her hands full" in riding the 12-year-old Hanoverian bay gelding.
In the Grand Prix Freestyle to be held Saturday night, van Grunsven will ride IPS Krack C, a 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion that she rode to fourth place in Thursday's Grand Prix.
For complete results from Rotterdam, please visit: http://www.scg-nl.nl/
This special report from Kenneth Braddick in Rotterdam is a preview provided by PhelpsSports.com. Look for the debut of this new equestrian news website during the World Equestrian Games in August. Visit http://www.PhelpsSports.com formore information.
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