12 obstacles with 15 jumps of 1.45 m and a
course length of 500 meters to be completed in
86 seconds - these were the ingredients for the
S** EYCup that had been cooked up by course
designer Rob Jansen / NED and his assistant
Franz Madl jun. / AUT. 13 of the participating
riders went on to the jump-off, all of them with
a clear first round, with
Michael Eichler being the only one to bring
with him a one point time penalty.
Today was definitely the day of
Tobias Meyer.
Having won the Nation's Cup with the German
Young Rider Team, he then went on to win the
EYCup as well!
Meyer rode for full risk right from the start
and his tactics paid off. He jumped a clear
round with his 7-year old Capitol III son
Carljohann, and managed to be the only rider who
completed the jump-off course in under 40
seconds
(39.47 secs). The young Bavarian's future in the
sport seems a sure thing, since he not only has
today's winning horse to count on as a mount,
but also will be riding two of Kathy Offel's
world class horses from next week onward.
The chief rider of the Puschak show yard will
thus have three great horses under his saddle in
the near future.
Under a roar of applause, young Austrian rider
Marielle Margreiter
jumped to 2nd place with her scopey mare Ranja
33. The lower Austria based amazone, who has
been training with Martin Schäufler for quite
some time now, drew on the combined resources of
her ambition, skills and talent. In an interview
with the German Reitpsport TV, she later said
happily: "I never dreamt that it would work
quite as well today, since we did not have such
a great run these past few days. For me, it was
a 100% improvement, which is based on the type
of trust in your horse that you so urgently need
for this sport. All I can say is that I am
really, really happy today, my mare jumped as
well as can be!"
3rd place went to Germany again, the number one
showjumping nation: this time, it was
Patrick Afflerbach and Cool Girl who took
home the ribbon.
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Tobias
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Tobias
Meyer (GER) |
Marielle
Margreiter (AUT) |
Patrick
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