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So it is Christmas, it is Olympia, it is that combination of sport and | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
entertainment that just makes you smile. We do love this event, and | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
very soon we will see the riders, 37 of them, lining up, they will be | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
running up behind me, but as I mentioned, this is a golden time for | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
British show jumping. Olympic champions, European Champions, and | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the top two the world, let's find out more about Ben Maher and Scott | :02:05. | :02:45. | |
Brash. This is what I have trained about for years, I am living my | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
dream. We are friends inside the ring and outside, I think me | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
becoming number one spurred him on. I had a great lead, I was there for | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
everyone to catch, I want to come back strong and maybe challenge him | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
for the next month's number one spot again. We were number one and two in | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
the world, so they have recaptured the glory days and given the younger | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
riders a lot of hope that they can compete with the best in the world | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
on a regular basis and beat them. This summer, the global champion | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
stadia brought a league show-jumping back to London in a nail-biting | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
finale, and Nick Skelton was pipped to the Grand Prix title. I think he | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
has done it! It is a superb British 1-2 here! She is not easy, she is | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
very temperamental, very much a own way, that is the particular horse | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
that I have to adopt my riding too. But she is an unbelievable horse, | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
she was on form, every angle, every turn was exactly how I wanted, it | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
was a great weekend. I will never forget it. In August, Great Britain | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
became only the second steam in history to hold Olympic and European | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
titles concurrently. Then and Scott won silver and bronze, but to them | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
it is only winning that matters. -- Ben. I am my own worst critic, I | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
will be the hardest person myself if I have done something wrong. For | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
example, in Geneva I was second last week, and I was kicking myself | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
because I did not win it. He is exactly as you see him, he's cool, | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
his conversation is limited, a few words here and there will do, but | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
he's totally focused on what he is doing. Ben is more of a talker, he | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
likes to discuss more things, they are both great guys, hugely | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
competitive. If it is between the two it will be very tight. Victory | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
for Scott secured him the overall title. The youngest rider to do so, | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
on his 28th birthday. It was a fantastic day. He jumped out of his | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
skin, I didn't think it was possible to win everything. A lot of people | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
had to do, you know, make mistakes or whatever for me to be number one, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
I had to be the best I could be, to top the whole thing, and, yeah, all | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
on my birthday, it was a great day. This is Sanctos. Yes, That is | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
Ursula? Yes, Look how high she gets her knees. They are all different. | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
They have different techniques. Hello. Are you really grumpy? He is | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
scare odd a lot of thing, scared of flying. Are you scared of the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
cameras. He is a superstar in the ring. It is amazing, people think | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
you can pop on any horse, but they are completely different They are | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
all different and you have to ride them accordingly. There is lots of | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
things you have to make sure is right, for him, to make sure he | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
competes at the highest level. Number two in the world. Ben Maher. | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
Olympia is a bit special for you. It is. It is where a lot started for | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
me. I was fighting to be in the top ten in England to make the show | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
there, that would have been the highlight of the year, now it is the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
highlight for different reasons. It is going to be extra special for | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
you, because when you get introduced, they will say them say | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
here is the world number one. I am looking forward to it. The crowd is | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
amazing, for me that is what makes Olympia, the crowd, the applause we | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
get when we ride into the ring. The feelings are what Spurs me on to | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
keep going and keep improving and trying to be the best. To ride in as | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
number one is going to be special. Tim Stockdale is with me, who has | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
watched the guys growing up and seen them become the best in the world. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
We stood here five years going it is all disastrous with British show | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
jump, where did it go wrong, now we are saying where did it go right? | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
The Olympic Games was a focal point for if sport. It harnessed everybody | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
together. It gave them something to aim for everybody got together, the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
owner, rider, the manage. . Has made a massive difference. Ben and Scott | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
are great to on your side. The combination works so well, from that | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
it has been a Springboard and the sport has gathered momentum. The | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
other thing you need is riders doing well, we need events here in London | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
and we have one with the tour coming to Stratford. The jump saw off being | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Nick Skelton and Ben may officer. Ben came out on top. We are on the | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
world stage, the focal point has pulled over to Great Britain. We | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
are, we are deemed as favourites where erwe go. It is a massive up | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
lift. For Ben it is a mixture, he is in the middle of a legal case, with | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
owners of a horse of his, and he is going to be distracted by that, but | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
can he, he seems to be able to just focus on the sport? Yes, I think so, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Ben is a tough Guy, and a tough professional and when you are in | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
this type of environment, when you are riding, that is the only thing | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
you are thinking about. He won't be thinking about other things while he | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
is here in the ring. Today he will be focussed. As Scott will be be. He | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
does it in a less intense way, it is softer, he is like a swan, on top of | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
the water but inside paddling furiously under the water. Both have | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
been travelling round the world. Ben said he has only had two weekends at | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
home in the last year. Scott was in Doha, that is where his big success | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
came, that sealed him the tour win and put him to number one and earned | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
him a huge amount of prize money. It is phenomenal. The sums we are | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
talking about are tennis players and golfer, you see there, he went in | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
there and he went to get the class and get it won. It takes a lot of | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
guts in that circumstances with that much money. He is not used to that | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
yet. He has a great temperament for this sport. Doha wouldn't be the | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
showjumping capital of the world but the global tour takes them | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
everywhere. They are talking about China I have come back from there. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
The sport has gone global. The, we have a Brazilian rider here today, | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
it is going worldwide. For Great Britain to be at the top it is a | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
real boost. The exciting thing for fan, you can book tickets to see the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
global champions tour will be back here August 16th and there will be | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
live coverage on the BBC. Let us concentrate on Olympia, one of the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
most popular classes of the week is the Puissance, it is a winner takes | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
all format. It is about how high can you | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
some animals jump for necessity, some jump simply for joy. | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
The greatest of all jumper, is the humble flee, leaping up to 150 times | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
its own height. The Puissance is the ultimate high jump for horse, it is | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
the French word for power. 100 stone of horse and rider facing | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
a six foot wall. The wall gets higher with each clearance, should | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
you or a brick come a croper, you are out. It is an event to test | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
horses and riders to their limit. Both will need to be brave as they | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
attempt to leap into the unknown. Even the greatest have been known to | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
falter. Nerves will be tested and only the | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
most brave will survive. The rider must guide his or her mount to the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
best place for take off. Success sees the animal kingdom at its most | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
graceful. At but the tiniest error from horse or rider and the wall | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
comes tumbling down. Some horses make it look very easy. | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
Ben Maher won the class last year. They have to clear every fence. That | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
includes, this one. Some unfortunately that meant | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
whether he cleared the wall or not he was out. You can't believe what | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
happened. It has happened to me with a good horse, that you continue | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
because you want to show the crowd I would have been in the sharp end of | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
this competition, but in his mind he will be going "I can't believe I | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
have knocked that small jump down." This is a proper Puissance horse, | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
very brave, so something as small as the first one, probably didn't get | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
his attention. Watch how he comes in, looks at the wall and thinks I | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
will jump that easy. Very nice. Well, let us find out how the others | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
fared, because... It was the same fence here, the silver fence, and I | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
knew when they put it in there, today, he doesn't see it so well, | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
and, just gets distracted and intense, and that is the way it | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
goes. That was Ben's reaction. Then these | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
were the four rider who were left in. Four in total. Three for | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Britain, one for Italy. Let Usman Ali join the commentary team has the | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
wall reached six feet nine. -- let us join. | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
So the big problem for Guy Williams is to stop the ma erection re taking | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
the wall on. She is -- the mare. Slow the canter | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
There she goes. Yes! Absolutely spot on. That was | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
easier that time. That was better. She didn't take it on too much. She | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
used her enthusiasm, spot on. Lovely shape. | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Really works her body. Front end, back end. Flicks the back legs away. | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
Runs right into the bottom and then really pushes, and that is the style | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
that workforce this horse. Guy picks her up and she flicks the | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
back end away. Lovely shape. Maybe you have picked the winner, | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Mike, she is looking impressive there. | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
Two metres 20, they jumped in 2011, they were actually fifth but now | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
this man, he looks to be enjoying himself, you have to say that. I | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
love the way he goes up to the wall, shows it to her, big smile on his | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
face and says come on, girl, you can jump that. | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
Now can he join Guy Williams into what would be round four? This is | :13:54. | :14:13. | |
currently the second jump-off. It is the Italian, luke Certainly got the | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
power. That action with the front legs isn't going to cause a problem | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
at some point. It works again. Fantastic. The | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
higher it goes the neater this horse is in front. That to me was, that | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
most impressive jump in this competition for this horse and | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
required: This is a different technique but fantastic to watch | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Luca, he loves his horse, he gives them the freedom to ex presence | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
themselves, a very untidy jump. You will see a strange twisting of the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
front leg, under the body. It makes it harder because the shoulders have | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
to go higher. It has put a big smile on the, on the face of Luca there, | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
he is loving it. Is it scary going over the wall? She | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
is honest and try, so she is a good, she is a good jumper. You are one of | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
the favourite, you have won it before, but there has been strange | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
stuff going on in the Puissance? There is every year na, is why the | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
crowd come to watch it, and you know, and hopefully we go well. | :15:33. | :15:57. | |
Britain's leading lady rider, Lori Winick -- Laura Renwick on Roller | :15:58. | :15:58. | |
Coaster. Oh, well done! Well done, the source | :15:59. | :16:13. | |
has got to jump the wall. Laura knows what he is doing, he keeps is | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
I away from the fence around the corner so we cannot get too | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
excited, and when she sees the stride she wants, straightens his | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
body up and let him jump it. There he is, he has seen the stride, and | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
what a powerful horse! You see, it is a long way down, Laura getting | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
thrown forward by the incredible power of this jump. It is starting | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
to hop up now, isn't it? It is, ranked 33 in the world, she has | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
climbed right up the rankings. You were delighted! Yes, she is so | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
brave! I am impressed, and our stick, she really wanted to lead me, | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
and I trust her. You are having a good show already, could the | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
puissance be yours, too, do you think? Why not? At least you had a | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
good time when you was wishing! It is always good to think positive in | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
my opinion. And here is a man who has actually been top of the world | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
rankings in the heady days of Milton, in particular. He, of | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
course, has ridden in more Nations Cup than anyone else, so | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
experienced, still loves the game. This charge is Zantos II. | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
Oh! John Whitaker, three times winner in the past is in the in | :17:43. | :17:57. | |
round four, four to take the next round on. Trust John Whitaker, he | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
came into the class at the last minute, declared just before it | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
started, and there he is, he is the group, riding as well as ever. He is | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
even smiling! He was working quite hard, I think John's heart was | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
beating a little bit faster than usual, because it was untidy, to say | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
the least, but he has made it happen. You have a very specific way | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
of riding to that of all, don't you? Well, I have only done it on a | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
couple of horses, the first one I ever did it on, she took me in a | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
more powerful way, I didn't have too much control, whereas Roller | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Coaster, I know him so well, and I have still got him in my hands, so I | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
was a little bit further away than I wanted to be, but he tried really | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
hard for me. It is a trust thing, and I do trust! I hope the trusts | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
me! This is turning into quite a competition now. Yeah! A lot of the | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
favourites went out at the start, but Guy can jump a huge fence, Lugar | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
is the same, so this is going really well as well. Let's hope we can go | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
another couple of rounds. And there is confirmation, seven | :19:12. | :19:23. | |
feet, 213 centimetres, four through to the third jump of, that is of | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
five possible rounds, and we have still got two past winners in the | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
field, . In comes Guy Williams, third jump | :19:32. | :19:47. | |
off, fourth round. Now, can he get another puissance under his belt? | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
He's a cool kooky, this man. Remember, this is Guy Williams, | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
Richi Rich. First to go at the wall, round four. Very quiet | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
cantered through the corner, waiting for the explosion of pace. I am | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
still in there! Fantastic job again from Guy Williams. He has got his | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
technique spot-on. Very quiet cantered through the corner, stays | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
as cool as a cucumber and then really works hard to pick her up on | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
that last stride. I am a great fan of this guy, because he is a hard | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
worker, he really fights, and he dates deep when it really matters. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
British riders are known throughout the world for being competitive, but | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
this man, nobody is more competitive than Guy Williams! | :20:49. | :20:58. | |
I think we are just having a little chat in the EA year, come on, | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
darling, get me over that all! Only a nine-year-old, and that is pretty | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
young for international jumping, and I think a puissance horse, too. Yes, | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
very young for a puissance horse, this one. | :21:20. | :21:36. | |
So this is the Italian, Luca Maria Moneta, looking to get through to | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
the last round. Quite steady, quite close, and done | :21:43. | :21:58. | |
it again! You get the feeling that he did not expect to still be in. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
What a crowd pleaser, everybody here is absolutely loving this | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
experience. Look at him, giving his full is a titbit before she jumps, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
she gets another one afterwards. That is horse. He is a fabulous | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
oarsman, and what a crowd-pleaser. In that round, Andy, you really get | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
the tremendous feeling of this man's position in the saddle, | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
probably the most stylish riding reform is over that fence that we | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
have seen. Yes, he is in balance, he is loving every second of it. I have | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
never seen anyone smile as much in the ring. Well, this is going to | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
live up to expectation, we have got two through to the next round. Now, | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
can Laura Renwick joined them on Roller Coaster? Oh, no. What a pity! | :22:53. | :23:04. | |
What a pity... Well, that bar has been the undoing of people in the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
past, so annoying. Will she jump the war? No. Both going. They have hit | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
the limits, but roller-coaster certainly not stretched in any way, | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
just did not quite make it on either, and getting lots of parts, | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
so Laura Renwick boughs out. We have got two clear rounds, and still be | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
great John Whitaker to come. Lugar, you looked surprised to have | :23:29. | :23:52. | |
managed that! Yes, because I tried not to disturb, and she is amazing, | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
it seems that she likes it. I am happy. Good luck in the fifth round. | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
I will not go. She is only nine. She offered so much, I don't want that | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
she feels that she cannot do it and feel difficult. She must stop, that | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
is it. It is a game, but you need to learn to lose sometimes if you | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
respect the horse. Thank you. Now, what can John Whitaker do? The | :24:22. | :24:35. | |
crowd would love this man to jump here, that is for sure. | :24:36. | :24:50. | |
Oh! Well, it was untidy in the last round. Very, very erratic approach. | :24:51. | :25:10. | |
And that was just one step too far, and John Whitaker has entertained us | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
tonight, fabulous value for the crowd. It has been a pleasure to see | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
him. A huge pleasure, huge pleasure! This man still enjoy this is jumping | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
as much as ever, and more than most, that is for sure. What a | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
contribution! Let's have another look there, very untidy. Almost went | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
to stop, John had to sit back, hunting style, and just to save and | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
solve there. Never really left the floor that time, but John is up for | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
the challenge. I am sure his heart was in his mouth of there! But | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
thankfully horse and ride OK. We are hearing news that, actually, Luca | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
Maria Moneta may not want to go in the next round. Now, that would mean | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
we have got a winner. We are just awaiting the confirmation of that. | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
Oh, there is... I hear the word is negotiation! Somebody is probably | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
twisting his arm. John, your luck kind of run out. It did a little | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
bit, we nearly dumped it, it felt like it. Just got a little bit | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
strong, got a little bit too close to the wall. But when it gets that | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
size, you have to push a little bit, and we may be pushed a little bit | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
too hard. But very good experience, you know, it feels like next time he | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
could go all the way. Have you enjoyed your puissance comeback? Not | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
really! No, it was good. The crowd loved it, it is nice to keep | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
pleasing the crowd. You did a great job, thank you, John. | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
Seven for the last round, 2.18 metres, scurrying back into the ring | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
to say we have got two in, that is confirmed. It is between Guy | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
Williams and Luca Maria Moneta, who has been a start tonight with Quova | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
de Vains. -- start. So there is Guy Williams, Richi Rich. Can he jumped | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
the wall at seven foot two? Last round, two to go, one for | :27:36. | :27:55. | |
Britain, one for Italy. Guy Williams trying to win the puissance again. | :27:56. | :28:05. | |
Richi Rich showing that fabulous action over the triple bar, very | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
quiet approach, the same as all the way through. | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
Not to be! Not to be, got to the bottom of it, did everything right, | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
great effort. Did not quite get up in the air, but a very light touch, | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
that was unlucky. If you were critical, we can look at it again, | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
Andy, he always comes in quickly, but I felt he came in even a shade | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
quicker. It is all about running into that exact take-off point, | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
maybe she got a fraction close, but another time she would have got away | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
with this. Probably, you know, a tiny bit close, but once it gets to | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
seven foot two, everything has to be perfect, and it did not quite get | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
the shoulders high enough. But great efforts tonight from this | :29:00. | :29:00. | |
partnership. It wasn't meant to be for you. I was | :29:01. | :29:12. | |
trying to stop her running and cheer settled. She is second, that is | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
good. It has turned out to be a fantastic Puissance Yes, the crowd | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
enjoyed it so that is what it is all about. Thanks Guy. So the last to | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
go. I suspect the crowd will have a real soft spot for this combination, | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
Luca Maria Moneta, with a nine-year-old mare, He is looking | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
more serious now. Looking a lot more serious. Now he is smiling. | :29:39. | :29:58. | |
Luca Maria Moneta. He is looking to win the Puissance 2013. Triple bar. | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
Now the wall, seven foot two, between him, and the winner's prize. | :30:05. | :30:12. | |
He has done it! Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Absolutely | :30:13. | :30:20. | |
brilliant, and he will be thanking them for that. This is the man that | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
was not going to jump, he has no Puissance form coming into this | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
competition. What an achievement. They are all standing, and saluting | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
this man. Tremendous performance, he won't forget this night for a very | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
very long time P He is a wonderful horse, we need to have another look | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
at that, because it was obvious that he didn't really want to go into | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
this last round. Let us look at him coming down, and what an effort this | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
mare makes. She turnped herself inside out. | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Still that untidy style. The front legs get stuck almost underneath the | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
should evers and the body has to get so high. She breaks the body up to | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
make the effort. -- the shoulders. | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
There he is, he is looking more serious over the top of the wall. As | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
soon as he lands he is on Cloud Nine. Who can blame him. Who can | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
blame him? You did want to do that fifth round, now you are the winner | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
of the Puissance. I was feeling bad for my mare, it is too big, but they | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
ask me please, because the crowd, because this is a show, and I ask | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
her, I say I will not force you, you are allowed to do whatever you like. | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
She says I am a good mare and I do it easy. She turned herself inside | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
out to get over that She is unbelievable. She loves it. She | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
likes to be a superstar. She wants the crowd. She is only nine. Yes, | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
you know, she do everything, she win speedy class, she compete in Grand | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
Prix, she do everything for me, it is nice what she offer, I love her, | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
I think she loves me. I think she loves you and the crowd love her. | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
Congratulations. Thank you so much. That was a popular success and the | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
trophy was presented to Luca Maria Moneta by the Duchess of Cornwall. | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
Massive reception here and everybody relieved he changed his mind about | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
whether he wanted to come out for the final round. Decided to go for | :32:30. | :32:39. | |
it and emerged victorious. So that was if Puissance, we are in | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
the arena, Tim and myself, where the course round us as been built and is | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
walked by the rider, this is for the World Cup class, a London bus in the | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
middle of it. Yes, it is a very fine fence, because it makes appearances | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
at the Olympic ps and now every show in London. It is a Dickens of a jump | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
to scrum. Let us have a -- to jump. Cian O'Connor has been staying with | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
Ben Maher because he turned up with a load of horses and said can I move | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
in and Ben went how many have you got and how many people need beds. | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
How do you think the course is walking? It is nice, delicate, | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
careful, so it is light. I think we have seen bigger World Cup courses | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
here, but it is difficult enough. It is a strong field, so time allowed | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
will be short. It is not easy. What the horse you are riding? It is | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
Cooper, he was second in the Grand Prix a few months ago. Hopefully he | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
will go well. Laura Kraut is representing America and the partner | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
of Nick Skelton. Your week has been going well. So far so good. Today | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
with a win would make it better. How hopeful are you? Yes, I am riding | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
the mare jubilee who won on Wednesday, she is in good form right | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
now, and so, if I ride well, we have a shot. I was talking to Nick | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
backstage, he is over there, who says unfortunately he is not riding | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
this week, big star at the moment has a tiny injury, he is distracted | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
by the racing with his son. In fact I think I am going to be jumping the | :34:12. | :34:18. | |
same time as willow will be running. -- Willow will be running. His | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
loyalty may be divided. We wish you well, you can see Nick giving | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
advice. Here comes Scott Brash and Ben Maher. Ben is riding Tripple X | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
who is a brilliant horse He is, I have to say he has been out of sort, | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
I am not saying this course suits him, he is a big jumper, if the | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
course was more substantial in size, it is delicate today. It a poly type | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
of arena and could suit Scott's horse. Let us have a word with Scott | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
Brash. How you feeling about this class? Good, really. | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
I have seen it bigger in this ring, but I think it is still, the | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
combination, it is five-and-a-half strides, so it will be tricky | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
enough, there are plenty of places to catch people. Think they will get | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
ten clears really. And you are riding the mare Ursula, who you were | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
telling me is very careful She is a cracker, I think the world of her, I | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
think he is a top horse, so she feels, I rode her this morning, she | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
feels in good form. Good luck to you, number one, I have to keep | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
saying that. Tim, you were saying you walked the course, where do you | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
think the problems will lie? They are coming to the parallel here That | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
is near the end. There is a centre line type of combination, a triple | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
bar, five-and-a-half strides with a triple combination, but it is only | :35:49. | :35:53. | |
three poles in each of the jumps. It is more careful than it is | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
substantial looking, riders have to make the decision whether they go | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
five or six and the horse has to be careful and focus on the top rail. | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
It is not just about the power. And you can see as well, the | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
decoration, it is so beautifully done, because course designing is an | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
art form, it is about getting the height right. The distances tricky | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
enough but not impossible but about making it look lovely Bits of snow | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
everywhere, but this can distract. The horse can look at that as | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
opposed to focus on what is in front of them. It is about the design the | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
course, to cause problem, You have looked through the field, who do you | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
see as the key contenders? It is more a careful type of horse's | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
course today. John Whitaker on Argento, I have noticed a spring in | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
his step, he is thinking "This suits my horse." He can be fast in the | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
jump-off. He could put a marker, he iserly -- early to go so that | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
doesn't suit him so much. There is German, Peter Charles' horse, that | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
could suit Peter, there is no doubt about it. Simon Delestre from | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
France, he is on a good horse, he will be close today. Kevin Staut as | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
well. Notice there, Peder Fredricson, I have never seen that | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
before, he is writing it down. He is second to go. | :37:19. | :37:26. | |
It is such an advantage if you are drawn later, if you jump clear, it | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
means you will go later in the jump Sometimes it can work to your | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
advantage, certainly, a lot of the riders are saying it is about care. | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
You can put a marker down early, before you know it you could make an | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
early mistake by not concentrating on every jump. Two to three is | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
difficult enough, because that is a short distance, it is a wide | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
parallel, so it is going to get you a bit earlier within the course. | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
I am going to have a wander over here, because the team manager, | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
excuse me, the team manager of British showjumping is in | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
conversation with Ben Maher, although we heard from... Rob? We | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
heard from Rob in that feature we were doing on Ben and Scott. We want | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
to say congratulations to you in person, for the state of British | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
showjumping right now, well done, you have done a great job It is a | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
great team, I have great horse, rider, owners and my job is easy. | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
And I would be great to see one win today? It would be fantastic, we | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
have riders on form, I mean Scott been going great. Ben is on form. | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
Peter Charles' horse is going well. We have a lot of chances. John is | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
58, isn't he? He is getting on. It is amazing the longevity in | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
showjumping terms. It would be like trying to go on until you are 100 in | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
other sports He looks fantastic on a horse. He is as young as he feel, he | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
will be round for a while. Ben is deep in concentration, he is walking | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
the course there, trying to stride it out and make sure he gets his | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
angles right. He is having a chat with Bob Ellis, the course designer, | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
Andy Austin is going to be part of the commentary team. Bob? How are | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
you? Nice to see you. A Christmas kiss. Yes, Are the riders saying | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
great course or what have you done to us? They are friendly about it. | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
They think it is very fair, big, fair, it is worrying when hay don't | :39:27. | :39:33. | |
complain. Then you think have I made it too easy. They are happy. I | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
think, eight, nine clears, That would be perfect for the jump-off. | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
Absolutely. I guess you are not allowed to say o who can you think | :39:46. | :39:52. | |
might win It would be nice to have a Brit winner but there are others on | :39:53. | :39:59. | |
form. You have Scott, who is flying at the moment. So, that would be a | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
nice winner. Brilliant. Well done, let us grab a word with Ben Maher, | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
didn't want to disrupt him when he was striding out the distances. | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
Wanted to check how you are feeling and how Tripple X will go He had an | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
outing last night and was surprised by the crowds, we kept him for this | :40:20. | :40:22. | |
class and I think he is feeling good. Brilliant. We wish you well, | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
thank you very much for coming and chatting to us. Tim, everybody seems | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
to predict eight, nine, maximum clear rounds, that would be a good | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
class It will make an exciting jump-off. I think they have it about | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
right. I think the field is very open this year, I think it is a very | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
difficult job. He has to design a course that is testing but fair for | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
all horse, I think he had nearly got it about right. He might want to put | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
a fence up or down, but the fact the riders aren't complaining, they see | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
it as a fair test, which I think, it is testament to his skill. The class | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
will start in round about 15, 20 minutes time, so the riders will | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
disappear and warm their horses up. They will memorise the course and we | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
will show it as it unfolds live. News has reached us of the death of | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
the greatest ever sports presenter and commentator David Coleman. He | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
has died at the age of 87, he worked for the BBC for nearly 50 years and | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
retired after the Sydney Olympics, that was his 11th summer game, he | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
was presented with the Olympic order by the IOC and this is a man who | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
could commentate on football and athletic, present both, present the | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
Grand National, question of sport and sports night and our sympathies | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
are very much with his family. But he also was a huge fan of | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
showjumping, he was a director of Hickstead, the news reaching us of | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
the death of David Coleman at the age of 87. | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
So we have World Cup showjumping to come here in the arena, but we had | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
World Cup dressage earlier, it was another stellar performance from | :42:04. | :42:13. | |
Charlotte Dujardin and her horse Valegro. | :42:14. | :42:44. | |
So far so good, they have both got the bit between their teeth and | :42:45. | :44:56. | |
doing a good job. Enjoy the movement and the music, because this is the | :44:57. | :44:59. | |
last time that Charlotte is going to use this piece of music that won | :45:00. | :45:01. | |
gold in London. Much better extended walk than | :45:02. | :45:24. | |
yesterday. She had a wrong strike off of all things in the Grand Prix | :45:25. | :45:28. | |
yesterday, but she made sure she got it right at that time. | :45:29. | :46:16. | |
It takes two to tango, and, my word, they are tangoing! | :46:17. | :47:42. | |
She even had time to give him a part. Oh! This is magic. | :47:43. | :48:18. | |
That has to be the best test they have ever, ever done! Coming in from | :48:19. | :48:31. | |
the freestyle, they produced a score of 94.250, just a little bit more | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
than 1% behind the world record. Have we seen that tonight? Look at | :48:37. | :48:45. | |
this horse's character and face, he adores and he adores showing off. | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
The crowd are getting on their feet. Quite right, too! | :48:51. | :49:01. | |
Look at this extended strop, how his shoulders come up, this is amazing. | :49:02. | :49:12. | |
-- trot. There, the Harmony, the horse relaxed, listening to the | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
rider, talking to the horse down the reins. Such a partnership, these | :49:20. | :49:21. | |
two. A world record for the wonderful | :49:22. | :49:39. | |
partnership of Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro. You have done it, three | :49:40. | :49:47. | |
world records. I cannot believe it, I am absolutely over the moon, | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
ecstatic, I honestly do not know what to say. I came here hoping to | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
break this, being the last time riding to that music. I am going to | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
get some new music next year, I was so close to the Europeans for | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
breaking it, and I wanted to come here to finish it on such a great | :50:05. | :50:11. | |
year and get that last world record. You are the first Briton to do that, | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
how incredible does it feel to have pieced this together with Valegro | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
over the years the way you have? It has been an incredible journey, from | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
when I started to now, it has been an absolute roller-coaster. The | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
things I have done, I did not even dream of doing or achieving, and to | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
kind of thing back on what I have achieved, finally got my last world | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
record, it is fantastic. What is the future for you and Valegro? There | :50:40. | :50:42. | |
has been much decoration, is the news? I am planning to retire now | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
that I have got all three world records. No, obviously we have got | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
the games next year, so I will be planning to do that. We will see how | :50:54. | :50:59. | |
it goes. Will we see you with Valegro at those shows? Absolutely, | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
Valegro will be there next year. Finally, reflect on what 2013 has | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
been like for you after 2012, which was good enough! Oh, just an | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
incredible year, after having 2012, which was mind blowing, to come to | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
this year and top what I have already done is just incredible. | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
Vice what is left for you to do? I would love to get some medals at the | :51:25. | :51:34. | |
world championships, that is my next goal. | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
The world Equestrian games are coming up next summer in Normandy, | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
there will be coverage on the BBC, and I promise you, it is amazing, | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
that's dancing horses being, that is really good, everybody loves | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
dressage. She has been a breath of fresh air for the sport, so genuine, | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
a really horsey person. We see that with them together, a real | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
partnership, brilliant. Valegro is worth so much money, millions, that | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
one of the owners was thinking, I have got to cash in, which would | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
have deprived Charlotte of the ride, but she confirmed that they will | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
stay as a team. That is brilliant news. It is a difficult sport, | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
because it is a business as well as a sport, and you have to balance the | :52:19. | :52:25. | |
books. A lot of horses have to change hands to continue in the | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
sport. Compared to British show-jumping, that is what was | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
happening, good horses were being sold and delivering medals for some | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
body else, and they have managed to make sure that the owner stay | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
invested in the British side of the sport. That is what was so good | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
about the Olympic Games, the investment in horsepower, and they | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
want to be part of it on the world stage. John Whitaker just going | :52:51. | :52:56. | |
behind us, we have seen he has got a red ribbon in Titus, not Titus, John | :52:57. | :53:04. | |
Whitaker's horse is Argento, to signify that the horse kicks, do not | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
get too close behind me. I am always fascinated, watching riders warm up, | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
because space is at a premium here, everybody is so tight, you have got | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
to have a horse that does not mind the close company of others. That is | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
the reason why you have got to want the other riders, take care and | :53:25. | :53:33. | |
caution. The size of these jumps, having that amount of control over | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
that size of jump, being able to land and control your horse. Now the | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
riders are trying to keep the horses calm, keep them under | :53:42. | :53:46. | |
control, because we don't want them getting too hot to early. Peter | :53:47. | :53:49. | |
Charles has just come in, and you can see he does something which | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
others do not do, riding in glasses. He has got these goggles that look | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
like a pair of glasses, we will see a more clearly when he comes back up | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
towards us. But also, his horse has a very strange head carriage, almost | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
a neck like... This is going to sound rude, a bit like a camel or | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
giraffe, but he will see what I mean. Just coming down the far end | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
in Canada, coming towards us, he is going to circle there and have a | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
little pop. -- Kantor. It is not orthodox, but I would say he has | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
obviously been in a situation where trying to make his head go in a | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
uniform fashion it does not go so well. He is allowing it to go a | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
little bit like a square peg in a round hole, and that is what this | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
sport is about. You can see Argento has got a really tight head | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
carriage, look at Peter's, head sticking out like this, but both | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
equally effective and could jump clear today. Yes, both careful | :54:52. | :55:01. | |
horses, and this horse is, extraordinarily, missing one eye. | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
You can see, as he comes around, on this side, there is none there at | :55:06. | :55:12. | |
all, blind on that side. That is the Swedish rider. And again, incredibly | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
effective. Let's have a look at the cause that they will be facing, and | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
we will join Mike Tucker and Andy Austin to talk us through it in | :55:22. | :55:23. | |
detail. Yes, because set by Bernardo, one of | :55:24. | :55:30. | |
the London team, and it is certainly one that will ask questions, Andy. A | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
fairly straightforward start over the first two, then this committed | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
distance to the double, a huge oxer jumping into the corner. The main | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
feature of this arena is how small it is. A little bit of room coming | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
into the fence there, and then after this oxer, we are into what is | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
possibly the biggest, most difficult line, this triple bar coming up, | :55:56. | :56:03. | |
1.85 metres, and you have a choice, five or six strides. Two verticals, | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
the first part of the combination, then a very powerful, big oxer to | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
come out, incredibly tight turn, the London bus from the Olympics, a very | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
delicate fence, a little bit spooky. And then a different fence, and oxer | :56:18. | :56:23. | |
with a water tray underneath, committed three strikes to a 160 | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
vertical. And then at the end of the course, committed distance to wear | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
the horses may get tired, a couple of very big square boxes, 1.55, | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
could be tired by the time they get there. All the clear rounds going | :56:39. | :56:44. | |
through to the jump off, a prize pot of 130,000 euros, that goes to the | :56:45. | :56:47. | |
winner. It is a very open field. A young Brazilian that a lot of | :56:48. | :57:17. | |
people are talking about, Marlon Modolo Zanotelli, only 25, certainly | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
one to watch. Young Daniel Neilson for Britain, jumping in his first | :57:23. | :57:25. | |
ever World Cup ground here in London. David Will of Germany, he | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
won in the spring, a young German beginning to make a name for insult. | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
Do not discount Luca Maria Moneta and Edwina Tops-Alexander, based in | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
Europe but writes for Australia, and she has got a lovely set of horses. | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
Ben Maher won here two years ago. Laura Renwick is very good, | :57:44. | :58:02. | |
international class, and Kevin Staut won the Grand Prix in Paris last | :58:03. | :58:05. | |
weekend. That is a very strong section, Michael Whitaker, biking, | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
they have saved themselves for this class. And the last four, and Libby | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
Leprevost won here last night. They are all real contenders. | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
A strong looking field, very open. And it will be interesting. What is | :58:26. | :58:33. | |
your predictions on the number of clear rounds, Andy? Well, talking to | :58:34. | :58:37. | |
the course builders, they are saying around eight, I will agree with | :58:38. | :58:43. | |
that. I am agreeing, going with eight. Well, I am quite sure we are | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
going to see some outstanding show-jumping. Really world-class | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
show-jumping is something to behold, and it is Dai Williams, number eight | :58:54. | :59:00. | |
of Great Britain, with Titus, who won a bronze medal in 2011. | :59:01. | :59:20. | |
One of the problems with his horse, Titus, hugely powerful, very big | :59:21. | :59:28. | |
striding. He can sometimes get a little bit forward jumping at some | :59:29. | :59:34. | |
of the hurdles. Pulling hard down to the combination, and we expected | :59:35. | :59:36. | |
that to be probably the most difficult line. Titres getting very | :59:37. | :59:39. | |
strong now. One of the interesting things when | :59:40. | :59:49. | |
the first horse goes is checking the distances, and the time allowed. 71 | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
seconds. That could be close enough. Here is | :59:56. | :00:04. | |
the last line of two big oxers. Comfortably inside the time. | :00:05. | :00:13. | |
The words have been of course it is very poly, it is very light. That | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
was very much the description of Guy's round here This is a very | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
narrow fence, it is lighter, there is no weight in that pole so a | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
little touch brings it off. Here is the run down to the combination, | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Titus got strong, get going, really hit the first part of the | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
combination pretty hard. Here now is Peder Fredricson for | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Sweden. H Cash In in 33. He has had a very good year, he has been a | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
winner here this week, two wins in fact he has had. He had four wins in | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
his own international indoors in Stockholm, went very well there, and | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
he was also too, part of the team that won the bronze medal in the | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Europeans for Sweden. A great fight back in the second round to clinch | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
bronze. So he, another very good yard stick in this FEI World Cup in | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
London. Peder Fredricson certainly concerned | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
is about the time allowed, because he has taken a very tight inside | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
line everywhere and getting very strong down to the combination | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
again, there is your problem. The horse is jumped so forward over that | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
triple bar which is 1.85 wide. The five strides are so committed. It | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
will be interesting to see whether any horses and combinations add a | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
stride there and go for six. It is an option for some of the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
extraordinarier striding horses. -- for the shorter striding horses. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Well this is going to be a fascinating World Cup round here, | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
that is for sure. You one would not have expected | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Peder Fredricson to go in here and have five down. | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
The main feature of the course is not really it is massive, definitely | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
seen bigger courses, built for the World Cup here, but it is very | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
light, very delicate. You can see a lack of filler, lots of poles, and | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
if they start taking these fences on, see there a bit of a cricket | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
score. It is all about pace, having the right pace, just, having the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
horse nicely on the bridle. Not short of pace or too fast. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Now Germany. Germany of course for so many years were dominant in the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
sport. They are still right at the top of the sport, but they are no | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
longer as dominant as they were, it is a sport now, that has certainly | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
got a lot more nations that are competitive, including of course | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
Great Britain. It is Germany's Marco Kutscher. Marco with Cornet's | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
Cristallo by a very good stallion which Marco rode at the European and | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Olympic level. Another of the wonderful jockeys that have come out | :03:30. | :03:42. | |
of of the Ludger Beerbaum school. Well, that was an early fence that | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
you wouldn't expect to see. Taking an inside line, just watching a very | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
watchful of the time these riders. I think if they keep up a good rhythm | :03:54. | :04:06. | |
they should get inside the 71 seconds. | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
You can see what a big striding horse, gets there comfortably on the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
five strides, that is by far the best we have seen through the | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
combination. Six regular strides there and the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
three, we thought that might ride short, but that looked to be OK, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
jumping towards the end of the arena, the horse is the best -- | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
twisting and turning and not pushing in the air at all. | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
Well. Another big name with four fences down. 16 for Marco Kutscher. | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
Cornet's Cristallo. Second in the Grand Prix in Helsinki | :04:50. | :05:07. | |
PROBLEM WITH SOUND It wouldn't be seeing any on the | :05:08. | :05:22. | |
right rein. They have to be aware of that, every presentation she has to | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
give more room. I will ask her, I looks as if he could have been born | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
with one eye. It is painless now, but obviously, something that has to | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
be overcome, let us go back to the live action and Mike again. Now in | :05:38. | :05:49. | |
the ring, another German Max Kuhner, he has come up from Munich to London | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
to be here. Clintop. Second in the Grand Prix there. | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
We have been off to an interesting start. Well, this horse by Clinton, | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
cruising down the five strides there, very comfortable. This is by | :06:13. | :06:27. | |
far the best start we have seen. Gets the three strides nice and | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
clean. Now, towards the end of the course, still clear. He has had a | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
few cricket score, he has one to jump. That will settle the nerve, a | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
good run from the Jung German, he has been to Olympia before. Max | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
Kuhner clear with Clintop. Germany who last won this with Marcus beer | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
balm in 2006. A fabulous exhibition of jumping there, the only thing | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
that went wrong was he Tor got to put his tie pin on. The rest was | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
immaculate. He looked to be in the comfort zone, complete contrast to | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
some of the other early starters. So Malin Baryard-Jonsson, lady who | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
has been at the top of the sport for many year, has won Olympic medals, | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
fourth in the World Cup round in Helsinki, she was second here in | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
this competition, to a Dutch competitor. She has been in seven | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
World Cup finals. She loves this competition. It is a | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
very talented horse. Discussion about the problem with the eye, | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
there are a lot of horses that show jump really well with one eye. It is | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
incredible how it works, but always remember that it is up to the rider, | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
to get the horse in the right place to take off. | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
She did nothing wrong there, got the five strides in a very Ballanced | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
canter. Just a bit flat from the middle. Didn't quite get the push, | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
this is a very unrelenting course, it comes can at you so quickly, just | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
to remind you this is a very tight arena and there is no breathing | :08:36. | :08:49. | |
spaces anywhere. Very stylish, but it is two down for | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
her. Eight is her score. With H Tornesch. 13-year-old now, | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
but Lux. Down the combination, watch the shoulders not quite working in | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
the middle of the combination. Just a bit the same again, brick out | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
of the wall. In our favourite, and this the man | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
who has now been to every Olympia but one, since it started in 1972. | :09:27. | :09:43. | |
John Whitaker with Argento. John rode other horses for the owners. He | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
has won two Grand Prixes, one in Munich. The horse just -- course | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
might just suit him. Fascinating thing about origin toe, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
he is 11 now, he is just starting to come into his own. -- Argento, he | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
has been a careful horse, but hasn't always found it easy to jump the big | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
wide oxers and get the distances. The other thing John has to watch, | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
he chipped in a stride. What he has to watch, is where he is a bit short | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
striding, that was a shame. He has to watch the time. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Didn't quite stretch which is sometimes happens to Argento. | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
No problem there's with the three strides. With just one fence down, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
the way things are going, he doesn't want any time fault, he should be | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
OK. 71 seconds the time. The last goes as well. What a pity. | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
John's won it twice, he won it in 98 and in 99. Good round, but eight | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
faults, not the only one. It is a great round, but unfortunately with | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Argento, if you watch it is always the big oxer, let us have another | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
look here. Doesn't quite make the back rail. He is such a super | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
careful horse, he finds it hard to stretch over the really big wide | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
ones. Absolutely full house, and we have | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
had five, if not six full houses here in the grand haul at Olympia | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
since the show started on Monday, it has been a wonderful celebration of | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
what is so good -- grand hall. Now the Olympic gold medallist Peter | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Charles. Vindicat his Olympic horse sold, he won it in 2001 and riding | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
Murka's Odie de Frevent. A French bred horse. He had a nasty injury to | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
his hand when helping the children with their ponies, so he hasn't had | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
a lot of practise in warming up. He was third in the class last year. | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
We have watched Argento go short striding, a very careful horse, this | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
is a different if seek. Big strides, sticks her nose out. And towards the | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
end of the course gettings quite strong. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
This is where Peter has to work really hard to cope balanced. Lucky | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
down the combination but he is still clear. | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
She is a horse with a lot of blood. You see how easily she stretches | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
over the wide Frances. Come on Peter, he is still clear, | :12:50. | :13:04. | |
the two big oxers should be OK. Oh! Clear round number two, one for | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Germany and one for Britain. The Olympic gold medallist Peter Charles | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
clear for Britain. CLARE BALDING: Let us catch up with | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Malin Baryard-Jonsson and asking about her horse when he lost his eye | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
It was this summer. He had an injury this summer, and while he was away | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
breeding, and they had to take it out. It is amazing, that he has | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
adapted so well, and is still able to jump to such a high level But the | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
thing he he had a bad eye from when he was very little. For me riding | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
him I had to think about the right turns, he had to see the jump with | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
the left eye he has come back safer, because before he didn't, he saw but | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
he couldn't really see what he was... That was confusing for him. I | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
think he has come back better without the eye. What an amazing | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
story. Thank you for telling us about that. As you can see the nest | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
rider has started. This the Billy Twomey. Another one with a long | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
spell Billy has come back with a bang, he | :14:12. | :14:23. | |
won the Grand Prix at the horse of the year show. This is Tinker | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
Serenade. He was fifth in Stuttgart and helped Ireland to a very good | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
third-place in the exciting Nations Cup final in Barcelona. On form, | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
this is definitely a combination that could be one to be reckoned | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
with. Billy is not only a super stylist but incredibly effective, | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
coming out of the combination, sat really quietly over the verticals, | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
and then when he needed to get the jump coming out really produced it. | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
That was unlucky, that was a shame. This had clear round ridden all over | :15:02. | :15:11. | |
it. Just the one down. What a pity, so near yet so far, the first one to | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
have four penalties. Beautifully balanced as he jumps the first two | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
parts, then come on, girl, you have got to jump out of here. Really | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
jumped across the fence and did not get high enough. Well, this World | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Cup here in London started back in 1979, Britain have won 14 times, | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Germany eight, and then the Netherlands four times. Ireland | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
twice, France twice, it has been spread around. Here is a man who has | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
been one of the best in the world stretching back well into the 1990s, | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
two gold medals, 1996 in Atlanta, then 2000 down in Sydney. He has not | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
been here for at least ten years, riding Leone W. One clear round for | :16:12. | :16:22. | |
Germany one clear round for Britain so far. This is a huge horse to | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
control in such a small arena. He is a fantastic technician and has been | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
around the sport for a long time. He has added a stride, he has obviously | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
decided that is the best tactic, and it has really worked. A very clever | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
piece of riding there. This mare has a slightly awkward way | :16:46. | :17:03. | |
of jumping, has got the head rider, not the prettiest start but is | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
effective. -- got the head right up. What a good round! Lars Nieberg has | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
lost none of this touch there, for sure. Any has not really shown his | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
old touch in this show so far, but he could be timing it very nicely | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
now. -- he has not. In the middle of the three clear | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
rounds, Peter Charles for Great Britain on the mare you call Eddie. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Yes, she was third in his class last day, she has had a bit of an injury, | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
and then another injury, and this is her first shot back, so it was great | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
to do that again. She has got funny head carriage, is she funny as a | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
character? You cannot do anything with her, you cannot school are | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
much, I ride it as light as I can, and I try to be a passenger. If you | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
try to interfere too much, she does not like it. Congratulations, we | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
will see you in the jump of. -- jumpoff. | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
As we know, the Olympics concentrates the mind in sport, it | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
has done in Britain, and it seems to have done the same in Brazil. They | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
have jumped into prominence, they were a brilliant second at the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
Nations Cup in Barcelona, but this 25-year-old was part of that, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
certainly one of the riders being talked about in very, very high | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
form, Marlon Modolo Zanotelli, based in Belgium. He is on a horse called | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
Clintash. Just 25 years old, eight in Oslo in the World Cup Final. He | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
more recently jumped a double clear round in Italy. Very stylish, | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
already had a fence down, but we will hear more of this man. Just had | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
a bit of a wobble around the corner, to the one he had down, and | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
everywhere else looked very smooth and confident. Another mare by | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
Clinton, huge jumping horse. A feature of this course, not so much | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
the size of it, it is just a little bit awkward here and there, and one | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
two committed to distance us. Good round, finishing four faults. -- one | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
or two committed distances. He did not enjoy the experience of coming | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
to Europe, but he is beginning to produce the is old. He basically | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
missed his rhythm, and all the way round from the previous fence that | :19:36. | :19:49. | |
was rider error. Now, here is another man who has been one of the | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
best in the world, for Switzerland, he won a team silver in 2000 at the | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Olympic Games in Sydney. He has won a World Cup Final, they had Maendli | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
-- Bea Maendli. He was in the team that won a silver medal in Madrid, | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
that was the first time he came back, world champion in 2007. Very | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
stylish, a man at his best, certainly want to be reckoned with | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
in this World Cup round. Those of you interested in breeding, | :20:28. | :20:41. | |
this horse is by a side they use a great deal. -- sire. Not the easiest | :20:42. | :20:51. | |
horse to ride, he is having to use quite a lot of strength to hold the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
balance, pick the horse up. So far doing a really good job, a very | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
effective rider. Just stretching for that oxer. A bit | :20:59. | :21:18. | |
tight on the three strides, are we going to get another clear? Go on! | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
Well, dare I say it, the golden oldies are showing the way! Five | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
clear rounds, and Peter Charles, Lars Nieberg, Bea Maendli, three of | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
the more senior of the show-jumpers, three clears. We need to commend him | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
on his writing, picked his horse at there, look at the strength used. -- | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
riding. Well, now Austria, and if we'll back | :21:51. | :22:08. | |
down the list, one man who would have been raised the roof here, he | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
is well into his 70s, Hugo Simon, and he was still riding | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
internationally very recently, a great character. And this ride is | :22:20. | :22:31. | |
from Austria, Stefan Eder. Chilli van Dijk is a horse that represented | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Austria in the World Cup round in Budapest. Quite a few of the World | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Cups going to Eastern Europe now, and the winner of the Grand Prix in | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Linz on this very horse. A big great horse, this. | :22:50. | :22:59. | |
Lovely powerful grey stallion. A very successful jumper in his own | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
right. Oh, he hesitated on take-off there. | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
This is the line that has been causing | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
it is not the prettiest, but he got away with that, that was a huge | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
rattle coming out of the combination. Show-jumping balances | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
on such fine margins. You always need a bit of luck. Is an tidy style | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
that Stefan Eder has got, if you watch is upper body, he almost | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
throws it up in the air. -- this untidy style. Just watching here, | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
setting up halfway across the fence. So there we are, it is another one. | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
He goes through, Stefan Eder, that is number five. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Well, they are starting to make it look easy, but isn't this an | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
extraordinary start! I have never seen anything quite like that, | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
almost unique. Even walking out, actually! He is probably just | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
playing up to its there, but you do a lot of teaching, and that is not a | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
technique you would teach. I would definitely try to stop that, because | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
it is not keeping level contact with the horse, it is a little bit | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
aggressive, and to a certain extent he is adjacent to his horse, not | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
next to. But it is memorable, Hugo Simon was active in the saddle, | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
moving his hands, they ride in all sorts of ways. | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
Well, now it is, for friends... In fact, it is for Finland now, the | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
French rider has not coming. This is Satu Liukkonen for Finland on | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
Celestine. Finland with some younger riders. | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
This one has gone quite well this week, part of the Nations Cup team | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
for Finland there. Getting a little bit ragged down the | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
combination. You see quite a lot of argument | :25:24. | :25:38. | |
going on between horse and rider. These fences come at you so quickly. | :25:39. | :25:51. | |
Reaching, stretching there, another one going. 12, then, three fences | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
down for the young Finnish rider, Satu Liukkonen, who jumped in the | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
World Cup round in Helsinki. Once the balance has gone, on a course | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
like this, standing too far off, not getting there at the right take-off | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
point, no chance of making the back rail. | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Out she goes, and income is one of the younger generation who is making | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
a real mark for Great Britain, very successful rider, the under 18s, 21 | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
and under, and this man, Daniel Neilson, riding Varo M, rode in his | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
first senior Nations Cup at 5-star level in Rotterdam very well | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
indeed, and he has had a number of very good performances | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
internationally. He is a young man with a lot of talent. | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
There has been so much publicity, obviously, for the likes of Scott | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
Brash and Ben Maher, but this is a young man who has got everything he | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
needs to be a top rider and be a valuable member of the British team. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
If he gets the right horses and stays in the sport, he can be world | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
class. Brilliantly ridden, kept the balance | :27:20. | :27:38. | |
absolutely spot-on. He is just settling down to make sure he gets | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
under him for the wall, but he had a touch on it. Certainly did, the | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
brick went right across the bus! We say its time and again, you need a | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
bit of luck somewhere. Now, has he got the engine at the end of the | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
round to jump the two big oxers? Just one more. Great round, to clear | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
rounds for Great Britain, he joins Peter Charles, and now we are up to | :28:08. | :28:09. | |
six clear rounds. A great young, new British talent, | :28:10. | :28:22. | |
and another British rider coming in now, Robert Whitaker, whose horse | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
has an order bit of bridal, a chin guard, look at this. It is a bit, | :28:28. | :28:36. | |
look at this, as he going around the ring, he has this plastic bib to | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
stop him getting hold of it in his teeth, which would not be a nice | :28:44. | :28:58. | |
feeling. A bit of news on Timothy -- Timothy and CEO, his horse lost a | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
shoe, he will be coming into the ring. | :29:02. | :29:15. | |
He was third in Hanover, that was a very hot competition. He represented | :29:16. | :29:23. | |
Britain when they finish second in the Nations Cup, good performances | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
from Robert there. He is beginning to get a really steady team of good | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
horses together. . That kick was out of character, | :29:30. | :29:42. | |
Catwalk, he is a very powerful horse. | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
He is not going to struggle with the big wide fences. Just needs to stay | :29:46. | :29:55. | |
careful. Very tricky plank coming out of the corner. Just before those | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
last two big power fences. Just needs to set the hocks under him | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
here. No, that was the one that was always | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
the big danger for this horse. Got very ragged at the next as well. | :30:12. | :30:23. | |
Two down for Robert Whitaker. Catwalk IV, the course has been | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
design designed by one of the London team. Bob ill his was the ta think | :30:31. | :30:41. | |
figure of the team. All of them now world class designers. -- Ellis. | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
He has impressed. . Has built a great track. There are | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
problems at different places round the course, which is good to see. | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
One of the next generation for France, remember, this the horse | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
that loosened a shoe, that has been tucked back on, it is Timothee | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
Anciaume for France. Quorioso Pre Noir. He has been in | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
some of the teams that the new team manager of France has been using. | :31:16. | :31:24. | |
Very talented, who won the Nations Cup final, fantastic performance, | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
certainly best of the French for this season. No doubt about | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
. Not getting anywhere near jumping the triple bar. I think if he | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
carries on having one more fence, it wouldn't be surprised to see him | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
retire. We have plenty of clears already. | :31:47. | :31:57. | |
It is good to see the riders who are finding the course tougher. This is | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
a very tight difficult course, technically, comes at you very | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
quickly, and, anyone just not quite on their game, you see a cricket | :32:07. | :32:14. | |
score coming up. He ends with 20. | :32:15. | :32:23. | |
Highlighting what is required in this course. So two for Germany. | :32:24. | :32:44. | |
Every country needs a new generation and this is certainly one for | :32:45. | :32:52. | |
Germany, making his mark, it is David Will. He rides for a very | :32:53. | :33:02. | |
strong stable. He was a very good winner last spring. Surprise winner | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
of a very big World Cup just before the western European league was | :33:08. | :33:15. | |
completed in the nomination nominations. He won the final in | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
Gothenburg, he is showing the sort of form that makes him an exciting | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
prospect for the future, more recently in Mannheim in the Grand | :33:26. | :33:39. | |
Prix. . Style of German riding. Very | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
technically. Sits on his horse, a lot of work gone into the flat work | :33:45. | :33:51. | |
to produce this lovely balanced rhythm. | :33:52. | :33:59. | |
This is as good as anyone has jumped the combination so far. Lovely clean | :34:00. | :34:10. | |
jumping. Oh, that was a late falling pole. Well, commentators kiss of | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
death working beautifully there. Got through to the jump-off last | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
night and had one down in the jump-off. He was well pleased with | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
the horse, I think he might be again, so four it is for SIEC | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
Carriere. Now Daniel Nielson talking to Clare. CLARE BALDING: You haven't | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
been to Olympia that many times before. I jumped here a couple of | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
times as a young rider, this is my first time for the week in the | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
internationals, I am loving every minute. Tell us a bit about your, | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
when did you get the horse. I am 23. Based in Essex with Terry Wilson and | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
my girlfriend. I have had the horse since he was five-year-old, he won | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
the young riders one year, we are taking things slowly, built him up | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
for a day like this. When you get to the jump-off, will you go for it or | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
play it safe? . I am competitive. We will see how many clears, but I am | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
normally having a a go. Lovely to meet you and to see you do so well. | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
One of the younger generation, here is one of the senior, very popular, | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
always comes here, it is Geir Gulliksen from Norway. He has been | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
the star that kept Norwegian showjumping in the news. Riding his | :35:33. | :35:40. | |
own horse, Edesa S Banjan. Unlucky not to win a medal in Hong | :35:41. | :35:49. | |
Kong. Didn't happen in the end. But still, very competitive and has a | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
daughter, who again, is looking a very good international prospect for | :35:54. | :36:01. | |
Norway.Norway. . Is, riding my old horse. Geir | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
Gulliksen not the most stylish, he won't mind me saying that, I am | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
going to praise him now, he is very effective, he has been round this | :36:12. | :36:22. | |
sport for a long time, very very experienced rider. Now, seen a few | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
horses fall apart here, they have to get right into the corner, balance | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
here. And that is a very difficult fence | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
off the corner. The horse is getting tired. Just the one down. | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
Rattled a couple but it was only one that fell. So Geir Gulliksen bows | :36:44. | :36:52. | |
out. Edesa S Banjan. Still those six clear rounds. . There is the clean | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
jump, that was the wall out of the corner, but the one that caught him | :36:56. | :37:02. | |
was the planks. And he comes on a bit of an angle. The horses are | :37:03. | :37:07. | |
turning left, that is one reason they lose height. He is disappointed | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
with that one fence down, clean everywhere else. | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
Now it is Luca Moneta, the man that really did take this by storm when | :37:23. | :37:29. | |
he won the Puissance on Friday night. Riding Neptune Brecourt that | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
he rode in Denmark. Interestingly enough he is a Horse Whisperer and | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
it pieces together when we hear the backgrounds, this man no martingale. | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
It is very much an old fashioned way in the modern sport, but it works | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
for Luca. . It will be interesting if he went for lessons with Tim | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
Stockdale. There could be a clash of cultures there. This Guy, he is | :37:59. | :38:05. | |
unique. You just have to throw the rule book away with a natural talent | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
like Luca. Allows his horse to stick his head | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
where ever he wants. You heard Peter Charles say that is what he does | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
with his mare. He has got caught out in the middle | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
of the combination. Interesting to the watch, no bit in the horse's | :38:25. | :38:36. | |
mouth. And just getting a bit untidy. See his hands up in the air. | :38:37. | :38:49. | |
Clears it. It is two down four Luca, it is eight faults for the Italian, | :38:50. | :38:57. | |
and Neptune Brecourt. Claire he is a rider that the crowds here have | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
taken to their heart. They loved watching him perform in the | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
Puissance, explain thousand, the intricacies of riding in a bridle | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
with no bit. The problem is your line of communication is a bit | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
different, so what you have to be a bit smoother, and this, to a rider | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
like Luca, he has to try to guide him more like a neck rein, he | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
doesn't turn in the normal fashion, he used the outside hand. A lot of | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
riders like that way of riding, and Luca it is effective. It is so | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
interesting. We have plenty of clear rounds so far, but let us so if they | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
can be added to. Edwina Tops-Alexandra riding for Australia. | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
She rides for Australia, he won this World Cup round with the great horse | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
that has taken her so high in the world. For long a time the leading | :39:50. | :39:58. | |
lady rider in the world. Not now though. Her husband is one of the | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
best known international horse dealers in the world. She has lovely | :40:03. | :40:10. | |
horse, she has lovely young horse, this one is an 11-year-old. A lot of | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
French blood, Old Chap Tame. But this lady still one of the best in | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
the word. She was again well placed in the global riders tour. Finished | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
third overall in the league that went round the world, including | :40:28. | :40:39. | |
coming to London. London. . Lovely talented horse. Seeing him | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
skip and play, showing is off after he jumped the combination easily. | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
These two a new combination. Just slightly forward at the oxer. | :40:50. | :40:59. | |
Took out the front rail. As you say, she is looking to find a new | :41:00. | :41:06. | |
superstar as her horse comes to the end of his amazing career. Just the | :41:07. | :41:14. | |
one fence down. Old Chap Tame, at the moment six | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
clears and now five of them on four, with that one fence down for Edwina | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
Tops-Alexandra. Edwina Tops-Alexandra. . | :41:27. | :41:28. | |
Was one of those thing, caught it going slightly forward. And really | :41:29. | :41:40. | |
good round everywhere else. Out goes Edwina Tops-Alexandra, in | :41:41. | :41:43. | |
comes the world number two, isn't it great to say that? Particularly when | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
it is a Great Britain world ranking rider. On the horse he won this | :41:50. | :42:02. | |
London round before. He was third in the big world top riders in | :42:03. | :42:09. | |
Stockholm, the Rolex top ten, and of course, he won the King George V cup | :42:10. | :42:17. | |
at Hickstead, pulled it out of the bag. This will more than capable | :42:18. | :42:25. | |
Olympic team gold medallist, European team gold medallist Ben | :42:26. | :42:33. | |
Maher. BenMaher. . An annoying fence for a horse of | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
Tripple X's ability. If he has got a chink in his armour | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
he is phenomenally talented on his day, there is the odd moment where | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
he doesn't concentrate, over what was real livety easy a realtively | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
easy fence. That is one of the favourites gone out. Tripple X not | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
really on his game. Didn't stretch there at all. | :43:01. | :43:10. | |
In of course the horse that he was so convincing in that wonderful | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
Olympic gold medal in London for the team. He is now back down into two, | :43:16. | :43:27. | |
but, at his very best, this horse still one of the best in the world, | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
but doesn't always have his best days. . The fascinating thing about | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
showjumping, the ups and downs of the sport. It is not Ben's day with | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
Tripple X. It is such a gloriously unpredictable sport, it really is. | :43:44. | :43:53. | |
Here, now, one for France. Simon Delestre. France had their best day | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
in Barcelona, in what proved to be an outstanding Nations Cup final. | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
The final was a new format. Simon Delestre with Napoli du Ry. He | :44:07. | :44:13. | |
was in that winning team in Barcelona. He had a very good second | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
in Paris, Paris international show last weekend, but you have to look | :44:20. | :44:29. | |
back to a Frenchman who won in 1987, that is the last time they have won | :44:30. | :44:42. | |
this London World Cup round. The great big chestnut gelding. Worked | :44:43. | :44:54. | |
hard down that combination. Squeaky day jump out over the last part, but | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
it was a bit messy. -- squeaked a jump out. Just getting an tidy. He | :45:02. | :45:08. | |
has to really concentrate for these planks. No, he can see the horse | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
getting untidy towards the end of the course, and a great deal of | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
pressure by the time they get to the planks. With one fence down, Simon | :45:17. | :45:28. | |
Delestre, Napoli du Ry. Now the team manager really does seem to be | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
winding the French team up, some good performances. Here is the | :45:34. | :45:41. | |
planks, standing too far off, flattening, getting a bit heavy in | :45:42. | :45:42. | |
the hand. Well, now here is Cian O'Connor, | :45:43. | :46:01. | |
with an exciting nine-year-old, Cooper. He also has here in London | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
the horse that won the individual gold medal in the Olympic. He sold | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
it but got it back. It has already been a winner since it got back. But | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
this man, he won the Dublin Grand Prix, in great style, and in fact he | :46:19. | :46:26. | |
was second at the Horse of the Year Show on this exciting nine-year-old. | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
Cian O'Connor, then, Ireland, Cooper. A beautiful all showing | :46:31. | :46:38. | |
horse, they specialised in breeding jumpers. This one is by the same | :46:39. | :46:49. | |
sire as Robert Whitaker's horse, Catwalk. Such an athlete, fabulous | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
to watch him jump. Well, he rode his luck. He will have | :46:53. | :47:08. | |
to be much more careful over the planks. Well, another one! Every | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
time I say they need to be careful over the planks, down and they come. | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
Well, six of them are clear, two for Britain, two for Germany, one for | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
Switzerland and one for Austria, but not for Ireland. One down for Cian | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
O'Connor and Cuba, he would have been pretty short odds with the | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
bookies here. Yes, he stood a long way off the big cocks, but that plan | :47:37. | :47:45. | |
comes off the corner, and the horse is not really keeping his eye on | :47:46. | :47:48. | |
that fence towards the end of the course. So many of them jumping | :47:49. | :47:50. | |
flat. Francois Mathy, his father was an | :47:51. | :48:02. | |
Olympic medallist, and he is certainly one of the top riders in | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Belgium. He went very well in the World Cup round at the Toronto | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
Winter Fare early in November, and also back in the summer he was part | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
of the Belgian Nations Cup team that finished second in the Spruce | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
Meadows, the Calgary venue. They were second in the Nations Cup. Very | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
experienced, six clear rounds so far, and we are now into the last | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
third of the first round of this World Cup. Well, Francois Mathy is | :48:34. | :48:43. | |
very, very tall, around six foot five, and this is a massive, big | :48:44. | :48:51. | |
jumping mare. And that really was a lucky rattle! | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
So we are seeing so many horses getting around to this part of the | :48:58. | :49:05. | |
track clear, I do not know if I dare mention the planks! I think you | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
should have a little pause. See, he jumped them! It works! Just the last | :49:11. | :49:17. | |
fence. Good round, Belgium joins the clear rounds. Francois Mathy, | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
Polinska des Isles. Seven clear rounds. | :49:26. | :49:33. | |
The frustration for Ben Maher is that he is not among the clear | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
rounds, Tripple X looking a bit what today? He was jumping well, maybe a | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
bit too much pressure on the first oxer, and I was a little bit wide at | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
the end, but it did not matter after I had had one down. He feels like he | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
is jumping, but there's not much margin for error. As you know, that | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
can happen, the poles are awfully light. We are just having of those | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
weeks, things aren't going right, but it can change around. Will you | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
be in the Grand Prix tomorrow night? Yes, Tripple X has had a | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
relatively easy week for that reason, to be able to jump both | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
today and tomorrow. There will be highlights of that on Monday | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
afternoon on BBC Two. Harrie Smolders now from the | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
Netherlands, they have got a very good strength in depth. Harrie was | :50:23. | :50:31. | |
not in the London team that won the silver medal behind Great Britain, | :50:32. | :50:34. | |
but they were second in the Nations Cup in Spruce Meadows, the Dutch, | :50:35. | :50:41. | |
and then he went to the Toronto winter fare and was second in the | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
World Cup round there, very capable with good results, this man. He's | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
very competitive against the clock, too. That is just about where I was | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
about to go with this, I really hope he gets into the jump off, because | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
you never see anybody going faster than Harrie Smolders against the | :51:02. | :51:03. | |
clock, terrific value, very exciting. Well, he's not going to be | :51:04. | :51:11. | |
there. We have not seen too many horses not that vertical down, and | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
that is a shame. Just to remind you, we do have plenty of riders... We do | :51:18. | :51:27. | |
have plenty of riders in the jumpoff to come. Yes, 11 riders still to | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
come, but it will not be Harrie Smolders back for the jump-off. | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
Seven through. One of the great features as we watch Harrie Smolders | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
having that one fence down, one of the features of this Olympia London | :51:46. | :51:51. | |
International Horse Show is the number of Olympic medallists that we | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
have got here. It is an absolute feast of Olympic medallists, and of | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
course this lady won gold in Hong Kong-Beijing, when they jumped off | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
for the gold medal with Canada and won the gold for the Americans. She | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
is riding the French bred horse Jubilee d'Ouilly, that has been very | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
successful, had a good win here on Wednesday of this week. And she is a | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
lady who has gone very well indeed in the global riders to, was top of | :52:24. | :52:38. | |
the league for a long time. -- PDF. -- tour. We see her quite often in | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
Great Britain, she's based in Warwickshire. It is great to watch | :52:43. | :52:53. | |
her, she is so stylish, Laura Kraut, riding in the American style. She | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
just had to have a little bit of a fight and a change of mind, great | :52:58. | :52:59. | |
improvisation there. It is quite obvious that Laura | :53:00. | :53:10. | |
decided she was not getting there on the five strides. Just getting two | :53:11. | :53:18. | |
strong and a bit and tidy, quite a hot horse, pulling and fighting, and | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
as we have seen with so many riders, once you get a bit and tidy with | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
this source, no chance at the end. -- untidy. | :53:28. | :53:37. | |
Eight faults it is for Laura Kraut. This horse used to be written... | :53:38. | :53:52. | |
Yes, got very strong towards the end of the horse, nothing that she could | :53:53. | :53:53. | |
do to keep her balance. Now, many people's favourite, | :53:54. | :54:05. | |
Britain's leading lady rider, and another combination that has climbed | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
right of the world rankings in the last 12 months, Laura Riding the | :54:10. | :54:11. | |
holster bred horse, She was called upon to ride against | :54:12. | :54:33. | |
the clock and clinched it for Great Britain. | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
She is now very definitely one of the top riders to be choosing from | :54:38. | :54:46. | |
for the Nations Cup teams. Overall, this track has caused more problems | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
towards the end, and I think it is because there are so many jumps | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
coming at you so quickly. There is no breather anywhere, and towards | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
the end of the course, especially having jumped this big combination, | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
the horse is getting a bit tired. Those very light verticals going for | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
her already. Well, we predicted eight clears, how | :55:09. | :55:19. | |
are we doing? Yeah, good, seven at the moment, and what have we got | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
left now? Aid also left to go. I would imagine we will get two or | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
three more, we could easily get up to ten by the end. | :55:31. | :55:38. | |
Two down for her already, she has had a very good season on the | :55:39. | :55:48. | |
continent. She has certainly made her mark. You could see Laura | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
Renwick struggling to keep balance, trying to go to the right to make a | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
bit more room. Getting very strong, attacking the fences, so hard to | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
keep them careful when they do that. Seven clear rounds, then, two for | :56:03. | :56:15. | |
Great Britain, two for Germany, one for Switzerland, one for Austria, | :56:16. | :56:22. | |
and one for Belgium. And now it is Kevin Staut for France. His most | :56:23. | :56:29. | |
consistent horse over the years, Silvana HDC, the former European | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
champion, at Windsor in 2009, the world's number one, very stylish, | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
won the Masters in Paris one week ago, was in very good form there. | :56:40. | :56:50. | |
We have seen Ben Maher go out on one of the favourites, Tripple X, and | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
this would have been highly fancied to win today with a lot of the | :56:56. | :57:02. | |
experts, Silvana HDC is a horse with a terrific record, as Mike was | :57:03. | :57:06. | |
saying, one of the most stylish, effective riders in the world, Kevin | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
Staut. So elegant and balanced, his riding. | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
He has had one fence down, he is not going to make the jump-off. | :57:17. | :57:31. | |
There are now nine of them on four faults. Kevin does not often go away | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
from Olympia without a win, and of course there is still the Grand Prix | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
tomorrow night, which will again be on BBC Television. | :57:43. | :57:54. | |
Just having a look at the lovely mare jumped there. Well, here is | :57:55. | :58:02. | |
another who has won this World Cup round in London twice, actually | :58:03. | :58:08. | |
1993, I wonder how many can remember that win! And then again in 2010, | :58:09. | :58:21. | |
when he won with the horse that he won the famous Grand Prix on. But | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
this horse has got the ability, and if things go right, very | :58:25. | :58:28. | |
impressive, very impressive in Madrid in the global champions tour, | :58:29. | :58:37. | |
he did well in this year's league, and of course he was part of that | :58:38. | :58:41. | |
European championship gold medal on this very horse, a really, truly | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
outstanding performance by both Michael Whitaker and will funnel. | :58:47. | :58:53. | |
This is the type of horse that Michael excels at riding, we | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
describe him as hot, meaning he gets an awful lot of adrenaline pumping | :58:58. | :59:01. | |
through his system and gets very excited about jumping. But I think | :59:02. | :59:06. | |
Michael has gotten a bit, these days. Never been any doubt about | :59:07. | :59:16. | |
this being a world-class horse. Can he settle him to just jump these | :59:17. | :59:18. | |
last three? What a round! That was a fantastic | :59:19. | :59:34. | |
round, Michael Whitaker at his glorious best, still one of three | :59:35. | :59:41. | |
British riders in the top 40, and you can see why. | :59:42. | :59:47. | |
Viking is a horse that will improve with age, he is not an excitable as | :59:48. | :59:53. | |
he used to be. Hugely talented. Michael has the | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
feel and the expertise to ride a slightly difficult horse, and he is | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
getting quieter, more manageable. That was a terrific round. His young | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
son Jack was jumping in the children's classes earlier on, got | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
through to the jump-off. What is dad going to do? Now, here is a real | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
danger, I feel, for this World Cup round here in London this afternoon. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Henrik von Eckermann, rides for Sweden but he is a stable jockey for | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Ludger Beerbaum, this is a chestnut mare that has taken Ludger Beerbaum | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
to many many top class, the first goes down, it is me doing it now | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
Andy! But Gotha been a big winner and this man has ridden it so well. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
He is in the bronze medal team in the Europeans in Denmark. It is not | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
to be. Already with a fence down We have spoken a lot about styles of | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
riding. When we watched this chap ride he is so much in the Ludger | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
Beerbaum style. It is as if he has been cloned. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
If he glanced up and you weren't sure who was in the ring, you would | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
think it was Ludger Beerbaum himself. I agree. It's a horse owned | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
by a Alex McLeish owner. It is a mare, I would think this would be a | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
mare that will be be sent to the breeding paddock. Absolutely. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Perfect to breed from. So that first fence down. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Showjumping can be an annoying sport at time -- times, but another one | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
has gone. So it is a two down, eight faults for the Swedish Henrik von | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
Eckermann, and Gotha. CLARE BALDING: Is out reflecting on | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
her eight fault, what did you make of the course? Yes, it was a tough | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
course, the toughest of the week which is expected to be, the horses | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
here, purely prepared for this class, so it has to be a test, but I | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
was disappointed with my riding, I don't feel my horse did much rong, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
allowed him to jump right with me a bit. I was slow in holding him | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
straight. I am out of practise at this level. My horses have had a bit | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
of time off, so, this is my first class like this this for a while. I | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
am frustrated at myself. You get another bite at the cherry in the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Grand Prix Yes, he jumped the first day yesterday, he was fourth and | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
first, so he has had a good start to the week. This was my fault today. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Hopefully we can put it right tomorrow. That is what a good rider | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
does, they blame themselves. A big buzz because Nick Skelton's son Dan | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
and Harry have won the big handicap hurdle. They were saying thanks to | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
their dad, so a big day for them. It is. Nick Skelton going so well in | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
his new training venture. Here is Bob Ellis's tip for the Netherlands. | :03:06. | :03:18. | |
Zirocco Blue. Very very experienced, two wins in Maastricht recently, | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
puts him in form, he has won here once, that was on that horse. This | :03:24. | :03:34. | |
is one to watch. Looking at the distances there, all | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
pretty smooth. Very powerful horse. Crews round so far. There we are. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
That last fence, second to last fence going, that was a great shame. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
That is another big danger out, and so it is still those eight clear | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
rounds, three of them for Britain. CLARE BALDING: Not disappointed to | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
see that fence fall is one man clear, Michael Whitaker, | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
congratulations Thank you. Things are going very well for you | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Everything went according to plan, it was one of those rounds, ask | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
youed it, whip doesn't often happen, he jumped brilliant. Whatever | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
happens you will be relatively late on in the jump-off. That is the big | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
advantage, you are first to go you are struggling, last you can see | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
what has gone on, you know, and it is or bust. Yes, we know it will be | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
be other one, good luck. Well, here is the man everybody has | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
been waiting for, incidentally good to see Michael Whitaker back, he was | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
devastated after missing out on the Olympics, this is the man who has | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
been so hot in cent week, Scott Brash. Can Scott make it four | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
through for Britain? Scott in that lovely position of | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
having two world class horses. This mare produced by Tina Fletcher and | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
moved on to Scott. What a success story that has been. Well, she has | :05:18. | :05:34. | |
had a couple of touches there. Still clear. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
It is certainly a nail-biting round. Hasn't been totally clean up to this | :05:38. | :05:49. | |
point. But he is over the last, and Scott | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
Brash is number nine and the fourth for Great Britain. This time last | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
week he was having a battle with the Olympic champion in Geneva, he just | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
missed out on that occasion, but he is a man on fire. He really is. | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Just had a few little light touches, over the first half of the course, | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
but when you are on this sort of form, and your luck is in, you are | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
feeling confident, things seem to go for you. And he is walking on water | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
at the moment, Scott, isn't he. Don't want to jump the gun but the | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
man has won ?1 million showjumping in the last six, eight week, quite | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
outstanding. -- weeks. Four left to jump. We have | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
nine clear rounds, for for Britain, two for Germany, one for | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Switzerland, one for Austria and one for Belgium and this lady last night | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
gave us a real Masterclass on a nine-year-old, very strong field it | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
is. Penelope Leprevost. Nice Stephanie, a nine-year-old mare. She | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
was the leading lady rider in the world. She has dropped down a bit. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
She is 24 in the world, but she is still highly talented. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Been in very good form, part of the French team that won that Nations | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
Cup final in Barcelona. This lovely mare, by a Holstein | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
stallion, but this one with Swedish papers and the stallion was used in | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Sweden and produced lovely horses with great characters. | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
A bit of a clatter. Still | :07:51. | :08:03. | |
Wonderfully elegant stylish rider. And this lady is very good against | :08:04. | :08:23. | |
the clock. So France join the party. France now make it Six Nations | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
involved, and we are up to ten, with three left to go. | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
Just the one piece of luck coming out the combination. A bit of a | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
clatter. Then motoring on down the last line, four big strides. Lovely | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
round. We talk about Scott Brash being on fire, but so is that lady. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
Well, there is one man who can be sitting very comfortable at the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
moment, a man recognised throughout the world as being one of the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
leading course designers and he has produced a good testing round, not | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
putting any horses and riders under any risk of injury or anything like | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
that, but producing world class showjumping. Well done. Of course we | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
still have the jump-off to come. Now it is for Switzerland, Pius | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
Schwizer. He won silver, a bronze actually in Hong Kong in found 8. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Picsou du Chene he sold his top horses cently, to the Canadian who | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
won the gold in Hong Kong, and he has some new horse, and they are | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
already quickly getting into gear. He is a big danger, Switzerland with | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
coun clear, can this man make it two? -- with one clear. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
I think it is the true testament to being a top rider, to be able to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
sell your best horses, produce a new string, and be able to ride a whole | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
host of different types of horses which Pius Schwizer certainly can | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
do. He is a fantastic all round horse | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
man. He has just had the one down there, this is an inexperienced | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
horse. Untidy at the last part of the | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
course, but a good effort from Pius Schwizer. I agree. It is two down, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
he won't be in the jump-off, Pius Schwizer on eight with Picsou du | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
Chene. Claire one of those ten clear rounds was Scott Brash. You told us | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
how much you thought of Ursula. I thought she jumped great. To be | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
honest, I think because you have to turn inside the fence four, and I | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
was always on her, I didn't feel she jumped as good as she can. She will | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
get better throughout the week. I only jumped one round the other day, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
so I think she will be better tomorrow. You have also in the | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
interview we showed earlier, you revealed how much it matters to win, | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
so I assume going out there you will throw everything at it. Yes, I will | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
be trying to win, I know what my horse can do, she has a big stride, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
so I hopefully will try and use that to the advantage in the jump-off. | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
With wish you well. It is amazing the number of family that are in | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
showjumping, and Holland have got it too. This is Maikel van der Vleuten. | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
Son of Eric. Eric won this competition on couple tomboy in | :11:44. | :11:55. | |
2009. -- on Tomboy. He is now a man who is up with the | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
best at this level. We are used to watching Maikel van | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
der Vleuten ride a big stallion, which is a very elegant scopy | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
powerful horse, this one is completely different. A bit of a | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
ragged jumper, very effective. She is an out-and-out trier. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
You look at these two, working quite hard, still clear at the moment. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Squeaking over the plank, he will have to use his legs here, getting | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
the jump. He is over. It is 11, and now we have got yet another country | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
involved, because the Netherlands make it now seven nations involved | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
in this World Cup round, and that is one of the fascinating things, where | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
the sport is at the moment. It is so international and much more open | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
than it used to be, not dominated by any one country. Those days are long | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
gone. Maikel van der Vleuten, he is in, he is in pole position unless we | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
get one more clear, he will give it a go in the jump-off. He is a very | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
attacking rider. It is great to see him in there. So the last to go, in | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
this first owned round of the FEI World Cup here in London, is the | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
German ride rider Philipp Weishaupt, with Leoville, man who missed out on | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
two Olympic game, Pickford the team both in London and four years before | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
that, in Hong Kong, the horse went lame at the last moment but he won | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
the Grand Prix in Rotterdam. He was again in very good form in the | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
summer. He is a world class jockey, and again he is another Ludger | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Beerbaum stable jockey. Germany two clears so far, Lars Nieberg and Max | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
Kuhner. This is a lovely stallion, really | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
pretty head and proper little athlete. Skipping down the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
combination. Just balancing up for the very | :14:11. | :14:30. | |
delicate blanks. No, he does not get the push off the floor, we have seen | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
that happen a good few times already. One down for the | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
experienced German, Philipp Weishaupt, they finish on four, 11 | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
clear rounds. 11 clear rounds. And we are having a look now at Philipp | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
Weishaupt. And there he is, clear over the London bus, but it was the | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
planks he had down. Well, those are the 11 in jump-off order, Germany | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
will go first, Peter Charles of Britain, then the second of the | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Germans, Lars Nieberg. The more senior riders, Michael Whitaker is a | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
real danger in there with riding. And the last three, look at that, | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
this is where it will become exciting, Scott Brash, the French | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
lady and the Michael band allowed in. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
Maikel van der Vleuten. Let's talk about Daniel Neilson, | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
because this will be his first jump-off in a major class at | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Olympia, what advice would you give him? I was very impressed with his | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
whole philosophy about, you know, he was glad to be year flans and had a | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
lot of respect for the show, but he will give it a go. -- he was glad to | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
be here. If pre-jumps clear and fast, he will put the pressure on | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
the other two. This man's father has won here, the riders do not get a | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
chance to walk the jump-off course, they will just look at the map and | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
watched the riders who go before, then get on with it. We talked to | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
Scott Brash about his attitude, he is going out to win. Some will take | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
it easy, they will try to collect prize money, but Scott Brash is so | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
competitive. And there's you'll, this mare, she was jumping | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
brilliantly. -- and there's still. Look at his hands, very soft, in | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
balance with his horse. The generator power off the floor. Look | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
at the mare. -- he generates. He is wonderfully soft in the | :16:53. | :17:11. | |
saddle. If your favourite has not made it through to the jump-off, in | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
the case of Ben Maher and Laura Renwick, the Grand Prix is live on | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
the red button tomorrow night, there will be highlights on Monday. You | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
can watch the whole show from 6:10. If watching show-jumping has | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
inspired you to get involved in equestrian sport, go to the BBC | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
website, where there are details on all sorts of sports and how you can | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
be a participant, rather than a spectator, although we are delighted | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
that you are today a spectator! You can also watch the latest episode of | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
Inspired, which is a feature on Michael Jamieson, the medal winning | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
swimmer. The jump-off course has been built, the riders are going to | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
head out, and this is what they will be facing. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
We start with the London bus, the first fence of the jump-off, and we | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
have got a big gallop, this is what the jump-off is all about. You have | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
to try to leave the fences up, the faster you go, the more likely they | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
will flatten the fences. Another big box, then into this double, where | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
you have got that committed distance, and I will be surprised if | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
anyone four strides that. Then you have an option to turn up across a | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
very delicate vertical. And now it is all about galloping inside, turn | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
here. Who is going to dedicate a stride out to this last fence? That | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
could be where it is won. There is money at the end of it, which might | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
make several DEC, I would suggest, Andy, 37,000 euros. | :18:47. | :19:01. | |
We saw some great jumping last year, and we have got enough in this field | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
to make it highly competitive. Max Kuehner, we mentioned about David | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Will being one of the up and coming riders, and this is another. He has | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
been here before, he has never won a big class yet, but could this be his | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
opportunity? A ten-year-old by Clinton, Clintop II. He is the first | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
to go in this 11-ddouble jump-off for Germany. | :19:34. | :20:09. | |
He was around 31 seconds when he had that down. He flies the last, so | :20:10. | :20:22. | |
that is one down, 37.26. Interesting, it is going to be fast. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
They can certainly go quick here, counting the strides, he goes four | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
on that line there. Whether they will be faster by turning up to the | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
second last, we will see. Well, now the first of the four for | :20:37. | :20:53. | |
Great Britain, Peter Charles, his young daughter was jumping earlier | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
today. She sadly had a little tumble, Peter will be hoping that he | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
can put the family fortunes on a better footing. Murka's Odie de | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
Frevent, they were third in this last year, despite not having had a | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
huge amount of competition. Peter will be competitive, that is for | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
sure. She is a small horse with a massive stride. Peter has to be very | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
careful. Once he opens up, can he keep the balance? | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
17 seconds out of the combination. Now, he is really upping his pace. | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
As he is going outside to... He is going to gallop at the vertical and | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
take a chance. No, that did not work. Interesting tactics here. | :21:55. | :22:10. | |
37.78, so that those in behind Max Kuehner. Max Kuehner went quite | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
quickly. Yeah, the big striding horse, and Peter's tactic was to try | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
to use pace towards the end of the course, but still not quite quick | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
enough. So out goes Peter Charles, and in comes Lars Nieberg of | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
Germany, already one gone. It is experience that the Germans are | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
going to depend on here. Lars Nieberg really at the top of the | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
tree in the late 1990s, early 2000s. It would be interesting | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
hearing his thought, what he thinks about the sport at this stage. The | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
second of the Germans, Lars Nieberg. No clear round at the moment. Hugely | :23:05. | :23:18. | |
powerful, very and -- untidy horse to drive around the terms. He is | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
working hard, elbows going. It looks a bit scrappy. So far, there is no | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
clear. He has gone all the way around, taking his time. It is not | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
the quickest around, but he has left the jumps up. Just one more... And | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
he has got down to the last, and he has set the standard. One more clear | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
round, a slower time, 38.57. He has taken that gamble, but there are | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
still some big guns to come, several that could beat the time and still | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
jump clear. Lars Nieberg did not have much choice, this is a | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
difficult horse to go fast on. He has jumped clear, put the market | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
down. So that man, Lars Nieberg, leads. Max Kuehner is second for | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
Germany, Peter Charles is third, three gone. 11 clears, eight to | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
come. Now, for Switzerland, the one challenge Beat Maendli. Ten years | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
ago, he would have started hot favourite. He has not had a huge | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
amount of competition at this level, but he has all the talents, | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
riding for his long-time owner, and this is the horse that he rode in | :24:43. | :24:55. | |
the Europeans of 2011, Louis. He set off as if he means business, this is | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
already quicker. Well, he is taking chances. Will leave them up? It is | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
certainly quicker! 38.57 to beat. He is definitely quicker, very untidy | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
there, lost all control. He leaves the last, look at the time, 35.92, | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
the best part of three seconds quicker than anything else, but it | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
is one down. Hogarth typical Beat Maendli, attacking the course, he | :25:32. | :25:32. | |
went for it. He shows that the time can be beaten | :25:33. | :25:48. | |
quite easily, but that is the fence they are having down. Lars Nieberg | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
still leads with that one clear round, Beat Maendli is second, Max | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Kuehner third, and now Austria, Stefan Eder. Chilli van Dijk. This | :25:57. | :26:12. | |
is the winner of the Grand Prix in Linz. Well, Stefan Eder has | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
certainly jumped one of the most untidy of the first clears, what is | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
he like against the clock? Well, he is still sitting backwards | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
in the air. He has got his own way of doing it. Yeah, just running out | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
of luck there, jumping right through the middle of that oxer, so this is | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
a fascinating jump-off. When you have a big jump-off and everybody is | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
having a go, sometimes you don't get the clear rounds. Still just the | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
one. That might be Daniel Neilson's tactic, it might be a good one. So | :26:56. | :27:07. | |
Stefan Eder, eight in 35.86, he goes fifth. Yes, his first fault, he | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
jumped right into the middle of the oxer, no balance, no control, and | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
then this fence, he was a mile off it, he didn't get anywhere near | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
jumping it. Seconds now of the four challengers for Britain, 23-year-old | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
Daniel Neilson, who has really shown that he is not only a very good jump | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
jockey but a super label manager, too, his horses have been in superb | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
form this season. Now, we'll is tactic to be sort of | :27:42. | :27:53. | |
perhaps not set the flat-out pace but jump a clear round? -- will his | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
tactic. He is naturally a competitor, I think he is going. | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
Great turn! Now, he has put five strides in. That is going to cost | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
him a little bit. He needs to gamble these two verticals. | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
Well, it is going to be neck and tuck, he has got to take a chance. | :28:25. | :28:33. | |
He is going to be quick enough! For a 23-year-old, that is an exciting | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
round for the future, without a shadow of a doubt, 37.19, it may not | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
be the winner, but it is a very good around and atop the leaderboard at | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
the moment. This young man was a very good oxer, but he is developing | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
into something very special for Great Britain. I love the way he | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
attacked the last fence, slightly down on the clock, not as quick as | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
he wanted to be over the first, but stating that stride out to the last. | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
He has got his nose in front here. We have to remember that Beat | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
Maendli had one fence down, so the time is very beatable, will they | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
leave the fences up? Francois Mathy now, Polinska des Isles, seven of | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
the 11. Big horse, strong rider. | :29:26. | :29:40. | |
Well, he went round the outside. You would think he would take the stride | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
out but he didn't. Reminder of that time, 37.19. There | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
it is. Now he is gruesing his stride. | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
Taking a flyer at the vertical. He has left it up. | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
Think he has got him. If he leaves it. Oh he nudges it and he, yes, | :29:59. | :30:07. | |
just. Seven hundredths of a second. Nothing more exciting than a really | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
fast jump-off and we are getting that if this World Cup round. | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
Fabulous round from Francois Mathy. Big striding horse, he still a long | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
away off the second last. He had time to steady to jump the big oxer | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
and still go into the lead. When you have that much power under | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
the tank, he is pleased with that round. He deserves to be. Yes. | :30:33. | :30:41. | |
Hotting up now. Four left and Michael Whitaker | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
there. Just asking. I think it was brother John, as he went in. "What | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
shall I do? " The crowd will be behind him. The crowd will be behind | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
him. Remember, he has won it twice. This horse that has really settled | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
down, I agree with you Andy, and has really got all the capabilities, he | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
has just has the leave the fences up and go quicker than 37.12. | :31:16. | :31:31. | |
Michael having a go. Never seen him settle for second place. | :31:32. | :31:44. | |
He is tight. He has turned up. He jumped it. This | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
will put him miles in front. And again. He still has two left. Oh no. | :31:50. | :31:57. | |
Daring tactics from Michael, didn't quite pay off. Look at that time. He | :31:58. | :32:06. | |
is absolutely slaughtered it. 35.29. He does slip ahead of the faster, | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
four fault, he goes fourth. But what is so good about this, Michael | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
Whitaker was so disappointed to miss out on the London Olympics, one | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
wondered whether he would come back again, but he is and watch this. | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
Those two daring turn, he was desperately unlucky. | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
-- turns. So Michael showing just how quick he | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
can go round here, but, just that fence down. Three to go, and they | :32:37. | :32:43. | |
are all world class, Scott Brash the world number one. Penelope | :32:44. | :32:50. | |
Leprevost, with Nice Stephanie, and Maikel van der Vleuten for the | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
Netherlands. Come on Scott. | :32:54. | :33:08. | |
He cruises on the four strides, such a big engine he has underneath him | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
there, but he doesn't take Michael Whitaker's route. Preferring to use | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
a bit of pace. Going round here. He is just about | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
there. But that has gone as well. That is the bogey fence. | :33:22. | :33:31. | |
Good time. 35.23. It is quicker than Michael Whitaker. He goes into | :33:32. | :33:43. | |
fourth place, the fast fastest with four faults. | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
Still two to come. This mare so fast across the ground, he took four | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
strides instead of five into the double, didn't quite flick the back | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
end away. Over that vertical. That is the fence that is does aing -- | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
causing the problems but he proved again they can go even quicker. | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
Everyone's expectations when the man comes in, so high these days, he | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
hasn't let downs, great round as in comes France's Queen of showjumping, | :34:12. | :34:18. | |
Penelope Leprevost, with Nice Stephanie. He wasn't all that keen | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
to come in we learn. That is why the groom was alongside. She will try. | :34:25. | :34:31. | |
No doubt about that, she took on a very hot field on this | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
eight-year-old last night, and absolutely slaughtered them. It was | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
magic. Now, what will she do? Time to beat, 37.12, a couple of, have | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
tried the daring turns and they haven't come off. What will she do? | :34:51. | :35:04. | |
Good fluent start. Now she has to go for it. | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
Not turning up. Oh, and I thought for a moment she was going to stop. | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
Slipped. Managed to jump the fence. But that is definitely added to her | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
time. She is just a bit slower at the moment. Very close. She's got | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
it. No. No, she hasn't. No, she hasn't. She has gone third, Daniel | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
Nielson hangs on to second place. What a performance for Daniel | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
Nielson in this world class field. France goes into third with Penelope | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
Leprevost and Nice Stephanie. There is the slip. The back legs went on | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
that tight turn. That is what cost her, got a big hesitation, galloped | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
at the last, took the stride out there, but just that unfortunate | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
slip was probably all it took. What a shame. | :35:57. | :36:04. | |
Right. Down to the wire now. His dad would be won it in 2009. Can | :36:05. | :36:13. | |
he now mop up in 2013? Maikel van der Vleuten. Father won it on | :36:14. | :36:23. | |
Tomboy. Michael trying on the 14-year-old VDL Groep Sapphire B. He | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
has had great form, in recent weeks. But he is going to be at his best. | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
No doubt about that. The latest Grand Prix they won was in | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
Maastricht. Just remind you, 37.12 the time to | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
beat. He can't just hack round, he has got to have a go if he is going | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
to win that 37,000 euro first prize in the World Cup | :36:49. | :36:57. | |
Attacking the course. Is he going to go for it here? No, he puts the | :36:58. | :37:05. | |
extra stride in, she is a clean July per, he is going to have to risk the | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
verticals. -- jumper. She is such a trier this | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
mare. Gets the shoulders down. He is is not too far away, he needs | :37:18. | :37:26. | |
to take a stride out. He is ahead I think. | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
37.07. By overhe has done it! Son follows father. And I think you | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
could say he is pretty pleased That is an understatement. What a | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
brilliantly judged round. Use the mare's strength, she is so careful | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
over the vertical, not the prettiest jumper but she is so effective. And | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
he judged it absolutely spot on, here he is down to the last, didn't | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
lose his head. Head time to get some balance. He had time to get some | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
balance. London is proving a good city for this young man, silver for | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
the Netherlands in the team, in the Olympic game, and now wins the FEI | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
World Cup round here in London, in great style. What a competition, and | :38:12. | :38:19. | |
well done to the course builder. Really a sensational World Cup round | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
here in London. Here is confirmation of an | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
outstanding win from the young man from the Netherlands. Belgium come | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
second. Great perfor fans from the 23-year-old British rider Daniel | :38:33. | :38:34. | |
Nielson, look at the class in the field. The world number one Scott | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
Brash finishing sixth but not letting the side down and the same | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
for Michael Whitaker finishing seventh with Viking. Great | :38:44. | :38:45. | |
competition. CLARE BALDING: Standing next to me | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
grinning as he looked that the leaderboard is Daniel Nielson, the | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
highest placed Britain, this is a massive day for you Yes, the first | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
time at the show, first time to jump in the World Cup and I couldn't wish | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
for any better. The horse was fantastic. How much did the support | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
of the crowd matter? Amazing, there is no feeling like it cantering down | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
on home ground and when the crowd roars this is great. Do you feel | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
this is a start? Hopefully, if I could do what Scott did that would | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
be wonderful. I have had a good season, all my horses are going well | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
and hopefully we will move on to bigger things like this. It is | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
brilliant tow see you ride and do so well. So Dan finished third. Maikel | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
van der Vleuten is the winner, repeating a feat his father did in | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
2009. Were you here when your dad won it? No, I was at home in front | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
of the television, and, I saw him winning, for sure, you know, it is | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
any way, a dream to win a World Cup once, and it is my first World Cup I | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
win, and it is, I was happy with my horse. You went in there and you | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
really made it matter, your turns were very tight. That second last up | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
right looked horrid. Yes, the horse is a natural fast horse, so I never | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
have to override her, and I must say all my distance were good forward. I | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
had never a waiting distance, I can be happy about how she scrum's. She | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
flashes her tail and pins her ears back but keeps going forward He does | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
everything forward. I have her for so many years and she tries every | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
jump to make, to make, to jump the fences clear. And you looked as | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
though you landed over the last as ifyou weren't sure that was quick | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
enough. For sure, I mean they rode fast, and you never know, because I | :40:35. | :40:39. | |
just saw them on the television, so I didn't see one live, so you never | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
know. But today I am lucky. So for you, is this the biggest victory so | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
far in your career? I had the last year, I had some nice victory, I | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
mean, my horses are in good shape, and yes, OK, on the end of year it | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
is a good, it is a good last show of the year. | :41:00. | :41:02. | |
It a nice Christmas present for you and you deserve it. Well done. That | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
is Maikel van der Vleuten, who is our winner here, at the FEI World | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
Cup class. Sadly for Scott Brash who had such a good year it wasn't to | :41:13. | :41:21. | |
be, he went for it but... She jumped great. I maybe turned to early, she | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
just dropped behind, but I thought she jumped really good. The jump-off | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
was great. He used her stride well, just one of those things, it was my | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
fault really. Is that it for her now, will you ride her again | :41:36. | :41:42. | |
tomorrows? Yes she jumps in the Grand Prix, she generally would be | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
better the next day, I went quick so we will see. Thank you, so Scott | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
saying he is going to ride Ursula in the Grand Prix, you can watch that | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
on Monday afternoon on BBC Two while you are finishing your Christmas | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
wrapping, five past two on BBC Two. Those are highlights, if you want to | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
watch it live it is available from 6.10 on the red button. Watch there, | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
and row can see everything. -- you can see everything that is | :42:10. | :42:17. | |
happening. Sci Sunday 5.05. You know it is Christmas, you have Sky | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
Sunday, Olympia but that has been a great class, wasn't that enjoyable? | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
That was fantastic. The atmosphere was electric and the rider, the | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
dares they were doing across the centre, the four strides, the | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
double. That vertical has been a fence for so many riders, it has | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
been fantastic. You can appreciate the skill of the riders and the | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
horses, the balance required and the bravery. At the top end, the speed | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
they were going round the turn, it was fantastic, so brave, so brave | :42:50. | :42:52. | |
some of the riders. And do you think we saw a fair winner there. Yes I | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
think we have seen a rising star this Dan. I was impressed. He was | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
courageous but he was sensible when he needed to be and he jumped that | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
vertical and set sail for home. OK, in third but he was close to the top | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
end. Daniel Nielson the name to watch out for as far as British | :43:14. | :43:20. | |
showjumping is concerned but congratulations to our winner | :43:21. | :43:21. |