Pessoa and Oasis Capture Title at Falsterbo Grand Prix
by Kenneth Kraus, Special Report provided by PhelpsSports.com
Falsterbo, SWE – July 16, 2006 – Outlasting a starting field of thirty-seven, Olympic Gold Medalist Rodrigo Pessoa of Brazil rode Double H Farm’s Oasis to the win in Sunday’s JMS Mediasystem Grand Prix at Falsterbo, Sweden. The best finish the United States could muster was a seventeenth place finish from Roxana 112, owned by Scott Hakim, and ridden by Anne Kursinski. Kursinski had a single knockdown for four faults in the first round.
The Sunday main event, scored under FEI Art. 273.2.2, 3.3 & 4.3, two rounds, was a qualification event for the 2006 WEG and the FEI European Championship.
Of the thirty-seven that went to the post, eight went clear in round one. To complete the top ten scheduled to return for the second round, those eight were joined by the two fastest four fault rides from round one.
Five competitors went on to be double clear in the two round class, with Pessoa and Oasis leading the way with a blazing time of 45.46 seconds. Ireland’s Marion Hughes and Heritage Transmission galloped home for second, crossing the finish line in 47.26 seconds. The hometown crowd at Falsterbo saw Sweden’s Peter Eriksson finish third with VDL Cardento. Eriksson broke the beams in 47.30, just 4/10ths of second behind Hughes.
With four faults in round one, Molly Ashe of the United States, riding Jane F. Clark’s Neuville, was just behind teammate Kursinski in eighteenth place. Christine McCrea had eight faults with Promised Land, owned by the Candy Tribble, and finished twenty-fifth.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
JMS Mediasystem Grand Prix - Qualification for the 2006 WEG and the FEI European Championship - Two rounds - FEI Art. 273.2.2, 3.3 & 4.3 - Sunday, July 16th 2006
1 614 OASIS – sf - Rodrigo PESSOA (BRA) - Double H Farm- 0-0/45.46
2 652 HERITAGE TRANSMISSION - Marion HUGHES (IRL) - 0-0/47.26
3 705 VDL CARDENTO -Peter ERIKSSON (SWE) - 0-0/47.30
4 619 RICHMONT PARK - Pedro VENISS (BRA) - 0-0 /47.82
5 603 EVER MURY MARAIS Z - Patrick MCENTEE (BEL) -0-0/48.07
6 722 ISAAC - Royne ZETTERMAN (SWE) - 0-4/45.03
7 659 ANASTASIA III - Billy TWOMEY (IRL) - 0-4/46.62
8 701 NINJA LA SILLA - Rolf-Göran BENGTSSON (SWE) - 0-4/46.70
9 631 GODSEND DU REVERDY - Thomas VELIN (DEN) - 4-0/46.81
10 707 DIORISSIMO - Jens FREDRICSON (SWE) – 0-4/47.33
11 629 AK'S ANIMA - Thomas SANDGAARD (DEN) 4 - 80.43
12 608 SULEYMAN DE WULF SELECTION - Koen VEREECKE (BEL)4-80.62
Complete results for Falsterbo are available at: http://www.scg-nl.nl/
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