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Olympia is one of the best horse shows in the world, fabulous festive | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
entertainment to boot, from Shetland ponies to dogs to the Household | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Cavalry, to top-class sport and plenty of fire, this place has it | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
all. Throughout this programme we will be | :00:51. | :01:36. | |
bringing you highlights of one of the Olympia's most prestigious | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
show-jumping competition, the Grand Prix, Andy Austin is here, I'm | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
delighted to say, we can see the competitors walking the course, what | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
sets this apart from some of the others we have seen at Olympia? We | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
have the World Cup at this show and the Grand Prix, those are the two | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
major classes that all riders want to win, tonight, they will be trying | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
really hard to win this one. We can see them having a good look at some | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
of the fences. The courses there have been riding pretty well, rates | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
news that a riders, perhaps less so for the course builders, will they | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
do anything different, to try to raise it up a little for the final | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
class at Olympia? Good point, the ground has been jumping so well, | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
they floral than they wanted, but that is | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
great because the ground have been entertained with exciting jump ups. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
I had a word with the course builder, he has said he has put in a | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
fuse like the more difficult distances, not a massive course, but | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
the things technically, it could be more difficult. -- jump ofs. We have | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
got to look out for Ludger Beerbaum, the legend, quite weak, -- it has | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
been a quiet week, but the Frenchman, he has been on fire as | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
well, and Scott is in there as well, not with his top horse. I have got | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
to pick who I think will win, and my pick is the Irishman, O'Connor, last | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
to go, need has the draw, if he goes clear of the first round, then he | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
will be the one last in the jump off. Interesting, and interesting to | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
see how many riders are using the horses they had in the World Cup | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
qualifier in this class today. Yes, Michael Whitaker, near is one of | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
them, riding Viking, but he did not jump the horse the rest of the week. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
-- he is one of them. Real top riders, they know how to save a | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
horse for the big-time. Is appointing that Ben Maher, last | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
years winner in this class, has got to pull out. -- disappointing. He | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
has a youngish horse, winning an Boomerang, but he decided it was a | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
step too far, good decision but said not to see him out here. At about | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
young riders, Bertram Allen has been having a tough week, Jessica | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Mendoza, very strong, winning it last year. What a team she was on in | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
Aachen, and what a year it has been. On Friday night, she won a big jump | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
of class, beating all of the top professionals. 19 years old. Winning | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
in Aachen, for the Olympic qualification, tremendous. Bertram | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Allen, and characteristic to look to win in style in this way. But he | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
does not have the top horse, these courses are not machines, they must | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
have a rest. Bertram Allen is a very exciting young man. Some horses have | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
been having a well-deserved break, but not Andy Austin! When he leaves | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
here, he will be heading up to the commentary booth to join Mike | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Tucker. COMMENTATOR: Good evening from the grand Hall in Olympia, near | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
we go, with that start list, some big names there are, Pius Schwizer, | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
he has done well consistently, William Whitaker has had a couple of | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
wins, Ludger Beerbaum has not yet hit the big-time but it not be | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
unusual for him to come good. Bertram Allen, by his very high | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
standards, he has not had a big show. Certainly, Jessica Mendoza | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
has, she has shown just what she is capable of. But Simon Delestre is | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
still the man who has Bromley had more international form in the last | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
few weeks than anyone here. Laura Renwick has shown some good form, as | :05:15. | :05:26. | |
has the Dutchman. Peter Drayer, another, all of them big names. -- | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
Hanns Peter Dreyer. Michael Whitaker went so well in the World Cup, and | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
O'Connor winning a very good speed class in the last 24 hours. | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
Getting under way with the nine-year-old, by Staccato Gold. | :05:49. | :06:03. | |
He will give us a little indication of what this course may have in | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
store. CO-COMMENTATOR: Only nine years old but a very powerful horse, | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
with huge amount of strife. We'll start to get quite strong towards | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the end of the course. Henrik himself is a very tall and powerful | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
rider. Two strides and then once dried out over the big box -- one | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
stride out over the big oxer. Five awkward strides. Around to the | :06:34. | :06:51. | |
little style, right by the end of the arena, so hard to jump. -- | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
stile. That triple bar is one metre 95. He is through, into the jump | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
off. What a way to start for a good competition, well inside the time, | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
that time, remember, 62 seconds. That is plenty. Pius Schwizer, he is | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
definitely on form, slipped back in the rankings when he sold his top | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
string, but he has begun to put a very good team together, this is one | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
of them, PSG capital at a future, and he has been ridden very | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
successfully by the very young Swiss rider, Peter Jukes. -- Markus Fuchs. | :07:47. | :08:01. | |
This horse was very disappointing in the World Cup, with Martin Fuchs, | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
looks like a sensational Grand Prix horse. Usually he can write any | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
horse, but these two have not quite clicked. Very lucky gamma | :08:13. | :08:27. | |
combination. One of those positive determined characters, he will still | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
be determined to jump clear around here. Starting an awful lot better | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
than in the World Cup, the riders have to attack the triple bar, | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
floaty five strides. Down to the huge double. Good round... Jumped | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
the last... Your comment that he did not jump a good World Cup round was | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
bound to put that on the cards! That is a good clear around, so good at | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
riding different horses. William Whitaker, Fandango. Finished fifth | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
in the King George fifth Gold Cup at Royal International horse show, | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Hickstead. Good Grand Prix recently, and has had a good win here. That | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
will give him a lot of confidence. William Whitaker getting under way | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
with Fandango. Well, that was not just unlucky, that was a very bad | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
mistake, towards the entrance, it is quite square, but he would like to | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
think that at this level that would be a relatively straightforward | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
fence. William is not going to win this competition, but we like to | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
sing his praises. Watching him over the last two or three years, he | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
really does stand out as an exceptional talent. | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
Just the one clear around... Sorry, two clear rounds, but still get | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
prize money, you have got to take it seriously, get it going, going | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
south, as he can Duke, falling apart down the last line full of -- as he | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
can do. Fandango getting quite tense there. Now, Ludger Beerbaum, | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
Germany, it has been a big winner for him, | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
this horse, as yet without a major win at Olympia, this year, in normal | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
time, quite unusual. This horse has almost too much easy ability and can | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
sometimes be a bit casual. In the World Cup, one slightly lazy jump. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Clipped a back rail. You get the feeling that Ludger Beerbaum is | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
going to be pretty hungry tonight. A mayor with a little bit of a | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
character, putting her ears back. Showing her temperament. -- mare. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Very capable of jumping the world's most difficult courses. Very good | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
record of jumping mares, Ludger Beerbaum, including Gladys. Not | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
everybody's choice, but definitely for a Ludger Beerbaum. He has done | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
it, he is clear, that is a very good round from the Gubbio bum. -- that | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
is a very good round for Ludger Beerbaum. | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Now, the young Irishman... He has been so successful, one tends to | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
think that he will jump a clear round every time, but that has not | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
proven the case here at Olympia so far, Bertram Allen, riding a horse | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
from the quaint and starred in Buckinghamshire, and it is quiet and | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
easy, this horse, wrote in this team for a couple of seasons at least, | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
and has been a good winner with Bertram, actually. Another | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
tremendous season. He has moved up the world rankings to be six, just | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
20 years old. -- Quainton Stud. We have to keep remembering how young | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
he is, he seems to have been around for a long time, but he has won so | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
many Grand Prixs in such a short span of time, he has real belief in | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
his in his own ability, and as you have seen with Molly Malone and | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
others, he instilled that into his horses, and that is a gift this | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
young horseman has, just encouraging horses and giving them that little | :13:08. | :13:08. | |
bit more. -- Grands Prix. It has put in the extra stride, good | :13:09. | :13:20. | |
decision with the shorts riding horse. What a round. Class round, | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
beautifully written, making it number four. Switzerland, Sweden, | :13:27. | :13:38. | |
Germany and Ireland. We have plenty of riders to sing their places, and | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
you will certainly hear praises sung hire of this man. -- sing their | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
praises. He won this Grand Prix in 2012 with Sabrina. And, in fact, | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
Germany have a very good track record, Markus also won it back in | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
2004, Sandra Boy. Marcus Ehning is set to go, this is his top up and | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
coming horse at the moment. He has really shown that he is in form. | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
Some very good placings this week. -- Sandro Boy. This young horse has | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
an enormous amount of ability, he will have to sit quietly, middle of | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
the combination, he has nailed that. Beautiful type of horse, future | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
engine. But of course that Markus loves to ride. | :14:43. | :14:57. | |
He is holding an five strides. Made it ridiculously easy, very good | :14:58. | :15:09. | |
indeed. Marcus Ehning joins the list. And look at Ludger Beerbaum, | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
he has also won this title. Williamson has had a very good show. | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
Now, out in Deauville and enjoying his new base out there and this | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
horse going very well for him, he won a team bronze medal in the | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Madrid European Championships. 2011, that was. The horse then went to | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Edwina Alexandra, did not quite work out for her. Took a little bit to | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
get it back to the top and get it back to his ways and means. But it | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
is certainly now a very good horse in his hands, gone well this week. | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
It is interesting with Titus, 15 years old... For some horses, they | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
lose a bit of energy and power but Titus has so much energy and power, | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
you can imagine him jumping when he is 18. Gets caught out in the middle | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
of the combination. Going to have to hold him back here. | :16:11. | :16:37. | |
Brilliantly ridden. Well done. He is definitely going to take some good | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
year rose back to Deauville after this year. He has been placed on a | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
number of occasions. Now, Jessica Mendoza. Her top horse has shown | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
exactly what they can do in big indoor competitions at this very | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
show, but this is a new horse at this level, Sam de Bacon, nine years | :17:07. | :17:19. | |
old, a French bred horse. She has really made her mark since the | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
European Championships when she was catapulted into the team. She made | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
that decision look very good indeed. Jessica Mendoza famously doing | :17:30. | :17:42. | |
brilliant things this year with Spirit T. You can see that this | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
young horse has got a little bit wound up here in this atmosphere, | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
but he is a big horse here with a lot of ability, and the one thing | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Jess has to do is build up a string of horses behind Spirit. The girl | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
with a lot of talent and a string of horses behind her, she will be good | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
for Britain in the future. It is not possible as an international rider | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
these days to have just one horse. Now it is the Frenchman Simon | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
Delestre, ranked four in the world, he has had a fantastic two months. | :18:27. | :18:39. | |
He finished brilliantly in Aachen. He has done exactly what we were | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
talking about Jessica Mendoza doing. He is no newcomer by any means but | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
he now has a team of horses that really seem to be giving him the | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
back-up and launching him right up the rankings. The point you are | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
making their is it is the horses these riders need. There are a lot | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
of early and riders out there that could do with two or three Grand | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
Prix horses added to their string. But this man, strength and depth. He | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
is lucky at the triple bar but has kept his balance, just the last | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
fence. A very good clear round. France are in the party. | :19:20. | :19:32. | |
Incomes Britain's Star, the world number one, Scott Rasch. -- Brash. | :19:33. | :19:48. | |
He won those three Grand Prix, never been done before, on Hello Sanctos. | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
Again, trying to put together a team of horses to back-up Hello Sanctos, | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
so that he can save him from time to time, and with the wonderful owners, | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
Lady Harris and Lady Kirkham, who supported him to that brilliant gold | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
medal that he was an important part of the London. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
This one atypical for pleasure horse, he goes with his head up. | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
This is a horse Scott thinks a lot of, and he is only nine years old, | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
so it is a big ask to jump the Grand Prix here. This is the sort of horse | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
that will gradually improve year-on-year, you can see the amount | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
of power and scope he has got. Down to the last. A clear round for | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
Britain. We are at the party. Seven clears, and six Nations involved. | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
Laura Renwick, a little frustrated that this horse in particular has | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
been jumping so well, and she's been so near yet so far. Gone very well | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
yesterday in the World Cup, and still couldn't feature in the real | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
top half-dozen. Certainly this is a horse we have been watching very | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
closely with a view to the British teams coming up in the next year or | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
so. Only nine, a horse with obvious power and scope, by the lovely | :21:34. | :21:43. | |
stallion Tangelos. This is a horse was just an extra little bit of | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
jump. Just twisted in the air, finding it a little bit hard going | :21:53. | :21:53. | |
over the fence. Riding with luck at the last fence. | :21:54. | :22:11. | |
Britain have got two! Laura Renwick deserves to be there tonight, she | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
has been banging on the door but has not gone any act. Tonight, who | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
knows? John Whitaker, what a week he has had. Leading rider of the show, | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
presented this morning. Not sure he would be at this point of time, if | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
he could get good placing here, he could end up lead rider. Riding this | :22:35. | :22:49. | |
wonderful horse by Arko, Argento. When asked what he could want for | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
his Christmas list, he said, I'm perfect. He doesn't want anything. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
He has been nearly perfect this week. The interesting thing with | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Argento is he has been looking a bit too fresh this week. He is a cheeky | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
character, typical stallion, he likes to have his say about the | :23:09. | :23:09. | |
proceedings. You can see their adding up extra | :23:10. | :23:19. | |
strides, he hasn't much of a stride, this horse, and you always looked at | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
where he can. So after the triple bar, expect to see him put an extra | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
stride in. And he has lost his rhythm on the corner. Yes, he gets | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
the six, but that works so well. John knows what he's doing. Well | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
done, John Whitaker. It is our 10th clear, and suddenly Britain, from | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
having none, have now got a very good three. | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
He has really produced the goods when it matters of as far as the | :24:02. | :24:27. | |
world and the Europeans. He is not necessarily the biggest winner | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
against the clock, but when it is about the clear rounds, he is always | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
there, so Jur Vrieling more than capable of giving the Netherlands a | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
second clear round. They have got Maikel van der Vleuten clear. This | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
is a true championship type horse, all of the power and scope. He | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
sometimes looks a little deliberate the way he goes. Jur Vrieling a very | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
strong, effective rider. Safely home, Holland have got two, | :25:01. | :25:28. | |
and it really is building into an exciting affair, as we thought it | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
would, for this 100,000 euros Olympia Grand Prix. No other term of | :25:32. | :25:44. | |
Daniel Deusser. He is riding to Largo, riding for Germany. -- riding | :25:45. | :25:58. | |
Toulago. He hasn't hit the big-time here yet, but a man with all the | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
class to win something pretty special. | :26:03. | :26:19. | |
Looking comfortable so far. A tall man on a huge horse. Just cruising | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
down these distances. He did write that with huge | :26:28. | :26:49. | |
confidence, didn't he? Down that final line, he attacked it and made | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
it, but you would have thought a big horse like that might have made up | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
ground and then found himself in trouble, but not Daniel Deusser and | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Toulago. He has had some big wins in his | :27:02. | :27:16. | |
career, but he is now stringing them together, and as we have said with | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
some other riders, they are putting strings of horses together. He has | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
jumped well in other Grand Prix lately. Hans-Dieter Derher is riding | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
Colore, and they have been very consistent this week. He is great | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
value to watch, an exciting ride, his horses are always bouncing | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
around all over the place. Hans-Dieter Derher sometimes seems | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
to have his reins up around his ears. The horses love him but they | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
really try for him. And he is another man that we really | :27:52. | :28:02. | |
want to see in the jump off. Oh, he is a long way off the triple bar! He | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
is going to have to work hard to keep balanced. He sat backwards and | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
he was very lucky. My word. I think he rattled the last four fence is | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
quite hard, and they all stayed, so there we are. Clear round number 13, | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
not unlucky to Hans-Dieter Derher, very lucky! | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
As in comes Robert Whitaker with Catwalk, for me, his best horse. He | :28:29. | :28:44. | |
started well at the Royal Wintour is show, and has gone on jumping big | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
rounds in big competitions all summer. A little time off through | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
his own health after the horse of the year show, but tells me he is | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
back to form. He has had several good placings, including this horse, | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
Catwalk. He is the fourth last ago, 13 clear rounds so far, one of them | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
being his dad. This horse couldn't be more different to dad's halls, | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
Argento. This is a horse with a big stride, all the ability. If Robert | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
can keep him focused, he can jump anything. | :29:23. | :29:40. | |
So, he will jump the triple bar and keep moving. He gets the five | :29:41. | :29:57. | |
strides quite easily. Lovely round! So, Britain now have got four | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
through. Michael Whitaker now, what a jockey | :30:01. | :30:16. | |
he is. A key round in that European Championship at Aachen to get the | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
qualification for Britain. He has put in some very good rounds here, | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
including this horse yesterday in the World Cup. A brilliant | :30:26. | :30:33. | |
performance. His wife's horse, Viking. Brilliant horse. A clear | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
round now would give him a really good draw for that jump off, and we | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
have got 14 at the moment, five of them for Britain. | :30:47. | :30:54. | |
That was a very lucky moment there are, he needs to sit up in the | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
middle of his combination. Have you got radiocommunication? LAUGHTER | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
I think that Michael knows what he's doing! He has saved the horse for | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
the end of the week, jumping clear in one of the big classes. Did not | :31:10. | :31:17. | |
jump off. Went really well in the World Cup. Try to keep Viking ready | :31:18. | :31:19. | |
for this last class. Sitting up for the extra stride. | :31:20. | :31:36. | |
Classic, that gives Britain and clear around. We have the numbers | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
there, can we keep the opposition at bay? The last one to go, for | :31:42. | :32:00. | |
Ireland. Cian O'Connor, and he knows what it is to win this trophy, | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
because he won in 2009, this is a horse called Super Socks and he will | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
be jumping on an aeroplane to Florida, to spent the early part of | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
the New Year on the circuit down there, top horse in quarantine | :32:20. | :32:21. | |
already out there, he has shown some good form this week. You have two | :32:22. | :32:31. | |
love this little horse, only nine, short, bouncy way of going, but | :32:32. | :32:43. | |
absolutely powers into the air. Lovely feeling, bit of an | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
experienced caught them out there. That is a shame. This is a horse to | :32:46. | :32:55. | |
keep your eye on. Lovely one to watch, really tries his heart out. | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
Ends on four faults. Was that just a bit of spring out of | :33:02. | :33:12. | |
his step? Jumped an lucky, went right into the corner. He has jump | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
in there six times, I am happy with him. Nice clean round, it has been | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
trickier than you may have been hoping for. Must have been a great | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
relief. Yes, everything has not just gone exactly to plan, jumped a few | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
good rounds, clear in the World Cup, but hopefully we can finish it on a | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
good note. Did not quite get what I wanted. Maybe not quite in tune with | :33:40. | :33:49. | |
each other. Fantastic horse. Jumped fantastic all week. I have high | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
hopes for him in the future. Wonderful horse. We have to get the | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
jump offs a bit better. COMMENTATOR: 15 clear rounds, it is a jump off, | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
starting with the Swedish jockey, Henrik von Eckermann, and after | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
that, they come thick and fast. The previous winner, Pius Schwizer, the | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
young Bertram Allen, Marcus Ehning, he has won it twice, Simon Delestre, | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
he has never won it but he has good enough form. As we go on down... | :34:19. | :34:26. | |
That is the first six in the jump off. Scott Brasher has not won this | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
one yet, Laura Renwick has been looking at winning the big one all | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
year. Holland have won this, but do not count out the Dutchman. -- Scott | :34:40. | :34:49. | |
Brash. And the last three, could we finish off in style with Michael | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
Whitaker? It is not beyond the bounds of possibility. | :34:54. | :35:00. | |
CO-COMMENTATOR: The first fence of the jump off is what was the last | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
fence, that is not cricket, no filler whatsoever! One or two riders | :35:06. | :35:14. | |
will not be liking that. The first rider coming in. The first, Ludger | :35:15. | :35:24. | |
Beerbaum, the first of Ludger Beerbaum's pupils, Henrik von | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
Eckermann, very capable, first ago, in what is a serious jump off, very | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
classy field. Quite a young horse. It'll be interesting to see how | :35:36. | :35:46. | |
course looks. Only a couple of strides to get straight to did from | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
the corner but he is perfectly clean over it, here we are, into the line. | :35:50. | :35:59. | |
Down into that Ludger Crouch. He has cleared it, this is what was the | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
combination, second and third element turning very tight back to | :36:03. | :36:10. | |
the green oxer. Missed destroyed completely, tried to turn, did not | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
know whether he wanted the long all the short but he has got to press | :36:14. | :36:27. | |
on. Seven strides, down to the last. You get the feeling there is plenty | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
of places down the fence time. Just the one rider from Switzerland, | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
pretty good challenger, however. You have to say. Pius Schwizer, the man | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
to try to lift it, for Switzerland. Ranked 29 in the world. And | :36:45. | :36:56. | |
climbing. The interesting thing, watching it again, once he has | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
jumped the blue double, the angle that the green oxer is set at is | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
very hard for the horses, as they come around the corner, the fence is | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
jumping now, that is the fence the horses will see, and it really takes | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
their eye off, look at this, comes out over the double... Horse sees | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
the orange one. And you have to say, no, you are jumping the green one. | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
Clear, coming down the final line... He has gone! Flies to the last. He | :37:26. | :37:32. | |
has four. Faster time. Brilliant time, took an | :37:33. | :37:44. | |
extra chance to the second last. Swept around the corner, nearly | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
jumped the fence. Ludger Beerbaum, twice winner of this Grand Prix. | :37:51. | :37:59. | |
1994. And then, more recently, winning it this time. | :38:00. | :38:14. | |
Look last... Does not go flat out, tends to go for the percentage | :38:15. | :38:28. | |
round, but he's looking hungry. His horse really operating... Good | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
turn... Still looking for the first clear. | :38:37. | :38:45. | |
Has set the target, it is a good one, that will not be beaten easily. | :38:46. | :39:00. | |
We really have got a blend of youth and experience which show-jumping is | :39:01. | :39:07. | |
very much enjoying at the moment. Enormous experience of Ludger | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
Beerbaum is now followed by a the audacious talent of 20-year-old | :39:11. | :39:22. | |
Bertram Allen. 30 plus years in difference between this young man | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
and Ludger but that will not worry Bertram because he is such an | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
attacking rider, flying around these corners. Unbelievably quick, again, | :39:33. | :39:41. | |
does not take one hesitation, absolutely motoring full. He is | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
going to go miles into the lead. That shows what the young man is | :39:46. | :39:59. | |
capable of, well! Taking the best part of two seconds out. Fearless | :40:00. | :40:09. | |
riding. Marcus Ehning, giving quite a lot of help to Bertram Allen, | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
because Bertram is based in Germany. He had to say, there is a lot of | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
Bertram's riding that is very similar to this man, Marcus Ehning, | :40:21. | :40:29. | |
twice winner of the Grand Prix here. Jin Shin and Lyndon Hoff, a horse | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
getting a bigger and bigger reputation as the weeks go by. | :40:34. | :40:48. | |
Delestre, loves galloping. Look at him going around this corner, if you | :40:49. | :41:27. | |
are going to be Bertram Allen, you cannot... He has gone white! Coming | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
to the ground, going very wide there, as well. -- he has gone wide. | :41:34. | :41:44. | |
Not quite quick enough, here though, goes forth... This is going to take | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
quite a round to get ahead of that Allen, no doubt about that. | :41:52. | :42:00. | |
Now the first of five British challengers. The first being the | :42:01. | :42:13. | |
world number one, Scott Brash. A very well bred nine-year old, this, | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
in the ownership of Lady Harris Lady Kirkham. He will give it a go, I am | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
certain, big question for the young horse. This is a very young horse. | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
But we known Scott and he will not surrender. Try to go fast in the | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
jump of the other night and had a run out, but he is taking every | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
chance in the book, he's going for it. Again, sweeping around the | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
corner. Just like Bertram Allen. That is exactly what happened. The | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
other night, when he tried to go fast, it was just all too much for | :42:54. | :43:03. | |
this lovely young horse, Hello Forever, could not hold it together | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
mentally, Scott will be disappointed but even the world number one, when | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
you are under that kind of pressure, you are taking it right to the | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
limit. We'll have two settled there his horse, get his confidence back. | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
Exactly that, it is the risk you take by going fast, so often you can | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
do a lot of harm, and it will take several weeks to get it back, maybe | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
not with the horse, pop the last couple offences nicely. It is a lot | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
for a young nine-year old to do. Went for the win. Now, a lady who is | :43:37. | :43:44. | |
so keen to win a big one, has been frustrated, cannot get into the top | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
three, I have no doubt that she will give it 100%. Trying to beat the | :43:50. | :44:01. | |
time set by Bertram Allen. By Laura's own admission, not the most | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
naturally quickest moving horse. A little bit deliberate in the way | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
that he goes, just the pace caught him out. Bertram Allen will be sat | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
back there wondering whether he has done enough armour riders really | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
struggling to get anywhere near that incredible time. What a pity, you | :44:21. | :44:32. | |
have to give credit, got through to a lot of the jump ofs in the big | :44:33. | :44:38. | |
glasses, still not quite able to nail the top three placings. -- big | :44:39. | :44:48. | |
classes. Now the Dutchman comes to take on the challenge. | :44:49. | :44:58. | |
He's taking a look around. At saying to himself, -- perhaps saying to | :44:59. | :45:10. | |
himself, did Bertram Allen go that close, and the answer is, yes, he | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
did, at speed. Fascinating to see these riders taking right to the | :45:18. | :45:27. | |
limit. Maikel van der Vleuten, going for the Dutch, trying to take the | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
Olympia Grand Prix. Very strong challenge. | :45:31. | :45:44. | |
You'd think the way he has cantered around the corner, he is not quite | :45:45. | :45:52. | |
going for the win. A young horse, and economical round, and he has had | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
a fence, so Bertram Allen still way out in front. And we are now getting | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
down towards the last few riders. There are six more. He goes into | :46:04. | :46:11. | |
sixth. Well, there is one thing for sure, | :46:12. | :46:22. | |
there is not only John Whitaker riding Argento but probably 9000 | :46:23. | :46:30. | |
people here in the arena. Can they left him quick enough and fast | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
enough around this course? John would love to win this, for sure. | :46:36. | :46:44. | |
So, John Whitaker going for the one that he would really want this week | :46:45. | :46:50. | |
if he had a choice, the Olympia Grand Prix on his favourite horse, | :46:51. | :47:05. | |
Argento. 30 .45 is the target. Come on, John, you are going to have to | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
gallop around the corners. Oh, and he tried to take the chance, and it | :47:12. | :47:18. | |
wasn't happening. Just that skip and Buck puts him off his stride. Top | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
riders are making mistakes because the young man has written right to | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
the limit, and they just don't know what to do to beat him. It is quite | :47:27. | :47:33. | |
extraordinary. So, John Whitaker's chance has gone, and he is retiring, | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
on the lovely Argento. It is not his night tonight. The chance was there, | :47:39. | :47:45. | |
but it hasn't gone his way. There will still be more chances for this | :47:46. | :47:48. | |
man, he isn't going to retire yet, no doubt about that. Not sure this | :47:49. | :47:56. | |
horse has got the speed, but I could be proved wrong. We have all been | :47:57. | :48:04. | |
proved wrong on many occasions in show-jumping, but the point about | :48:05. | :48:07. | |
this horse is he tried to gallop him around a corner in the World Cup, | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
and it really didn't work, so can he gallop around the corner to this | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
next double? Because if you take a poll, you will be slower. And he has | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
done exactly the same thing. Amazing. The horse doesn't like to | :48:22. | :48:28. | |
gallop round those corners, he goes out of his comfort zone, and being a | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
stallion, he will say, no thank you. Riders like Scott Brash, John | :48:34. | :48:41. | |
Whitaker, Jur Vrieling, world-class riders, put under so much pressure | :48:42. | :48:44. | |
by the young man who has flown around this course. He certainly | :48:45. | :48:52. | |
has. We are now down to four left ago. Finishes on 12, 50 .20 five. | :48:53. | :49:02. | |
The top of the leaderboard doesn't change. -- 50.2 five. We are down to | :49:03. | :49:10. | |
the nitty-gritty now, that is the sure, as incomes Daniel Deusser. The | :49:11. | :49:19. | |
horse should be ready to give it a whirl, but can he catch this | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
flamboyant Irishman? Bertram Allen clear, Daniel Deusser for Germany. | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
He looks to be a long way off the pace. Bertram Allen, you talk about | :49:33. | :49:40. | |
young superstars in sport. To come out here, and he has near enough | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
killed this class so far. And Daniel Deusser is a top, top rider, and he | :49:47. | :49:47. | |
is basically just surrendering. Safely over the last, he has jumped | :49:48. | :49:59. | |
clear, that puts him in fifth. And it will give him good money. | :50:00. | :50:05. | |
And this is Hans Peter Dreyer -- Hans-Dieter Derher, not one normally | :50:06. | :50:24. | |
to sit and watch the world go by. Lets hope he gets off to a flyer. | :50:25. | :50:30. | |
Yes! Taking a chance there. This is a good start. | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
Hans-Dieter gets very busy and makes it happen, but he has gone wide. Now | :50:38. | :50:47. | |
he has some work to do. That has put him behind the clock, I would think. | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
He is fighting all the way, he is not quite going to get there. | :50:53. | :51:01. | |
He goes forth, and Simon Delestre drops down to fifth. Bertram Allen | :51:02. | :51:12. | |
has made them all fly. It is the Whitaker challenge. | :51:13. | :51:21. | |
Robert seems to have started off quite quietly. He is going to have | :51:22. | :51:30. | |
to use his stride here. He is going. This is a deceptive horse with a lot | :51:31. | :51:37. | |
of engine. And he has had one more there, that hesitation on the | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
corner. He can't catch him, surely? I don't think so. They are roaring | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
him on, but he's not going to get there. That puts it into sixth. It | :51:49. | :51:56. | |
just shows you what standard of rider we are watching, because it | :51:57. | :52:08. | |
was ADC round. -- a decent round. He has got his work cut out, no doubt. | :52:09. | :52:17. | |
But he can be a magician, he has had plenty of white rabbits out of that | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
hat. He will certainly have to pull another one now to get ahead of | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
Bertram Allen. He is riding his wife Melissa's Viking. What can Michael | :52:28. | :52:36. | |
Dugher is an Bertram Allen is the one they are chasing for the Olympia | :52:37. | :52:39. | |
Grand Prix. He has already had one more stride | :52:40. | :52:52. | |
there. He has got a lot to do. And again. He is slower here. He has | :52:53. | :53:02. | |
just got too much to do now. I can't see him making it. They are him on, | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
but he is going to be a little bit down. Great effort, goes second. | :53:09. | :53:16. | |
Full marks to Michael, but Bertram Allen is the man who sent them all | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
scuffling, but not able to catch him. That young man, we have seen | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
tonight why this man is regarded as one of the most exciting young | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
prospects there has been in show-jumping three years. Olympia | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
has been gripping right to the end. The Grand Prix has gone to Ireland. | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
The young Bertram Allen gave them all a lesson. Michael Whitaker | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
chased but in vain. Ludger Beerbaum, one of the world's greats, finishes | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
third with tiara. Marcus Ehning in the same league, he chased and | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
finished fourth. Hans-Dieter Derher fifth, Simon Delestre sixth. They | :54:00. | :54:05. | |
are all stars who have been left behind by Bertram Allen. | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
What a list of names that this young Irish rider has beaten this evening. | :54:11. | :54:18. | |
It has been breathtaking, it really has. | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
Well, we are hearing some amazing news. Bertram Allen may be | :54:23. | :54:31. | |
disqualified. Such a frustrating end to what has been a sensational | :54:32. | :54:34. | |
evening of show-jumping. STUDIO: Bertram Allen was | :54:35. | :54:40. | |
disqualified after a small amount of blood was found on the side of his | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
horse. Michael Whitaker was promoted to first. I was devastated, the | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
horse jumped two fantastically around scummy he tried his best, I | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
tried my best, and we had a fantastic round. My spur slipped, | :54:59. | :55:16. | |
and maybe that caused it, but that little bit of red, it wasn't even | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
bleeding. There has to be something done about it. All of the riders, | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
everyone here, they can't understand it at all. It would have been nicer | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
to win it, but I suppose rules are rules. I would have been very happy | :55:36. | :55:43. | |
with second. I am also a little bit with mixed feelings here, because | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
the class, I was third, it was disappointing for Bertram to be | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
disqualified. When you see the performers he did, and also | :55:54. | :55:56. | |
afterwards, I have seen the horse, the mark was up on the hip. You ask | :55:57. | :56:03. | |
yourself, do we need this? I really do believe we all have to sit down | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
one more time and think if this current rule is the right one to | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
protect the horse. I have my doubts. COMMENTATOR: So, there will be mixed | :56:14. | :56:19. | |
feelings, because there isn't any doubt that the winner of the jumping | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
we have seen tonight was Bertram Allen, but there are rules, and it | :56:24. | :56:25. | |
is Michael Whitaker on Viking Allen, but there are rules, and it | :56:26. | :56:33. | |
the declared winner of the 2015 Olympia Grand Prix. And there is a | :56:34. | :56:40. | |
very frustrated Bertram Allen. But young enough very definitely to be | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
back again. And here is the Olympia trophy. The trophy goes to Michael | :56:48. | :56:57. | |
Whitaker on the Viking. What a controversial way to end. | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
Andy Austin, can you understand Bertram Allen's frustration? Very | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
much so. I really feel sorry for him, because he jumped the most | :57:08. | :57:10. | |
incredible jump off round, one of the best I have ever seen in my | :57:11. | :57:17. | |
life. He is desperately upset, and that is very understandable from my | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
point of view. But there is a rule here, if there are marks on the | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
little blood on the horse, they are looked at when they come out of the | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
ring by the stewards, they refer to the grand jury, and they took the | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
decision to disqualify the horse from the competition. Horse welfare, | :57:35. | :57:38. | |
it is important, but it is very much a question of how you interpret that | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
rule. And I think most of the riders, including Michael Whitaker | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
who came second, actually felt that he was harshly dealt with. It is a | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
disappointing way to end one class, but it is just one class. It has | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
been a really strong Olympia this year. The ground has been brilliant, | :57:56. | :58:00. | |
we have had technical courses, but they produced a lot of clear rounds, | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
and amazing jump office. 15, 16, 17 horses in the big jump offs. The | :58:06. | :58:13. | |
crowd have had some week. In terms of strength in depth in | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
British show-jumping, from what you have seen here, how good is Great | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
Britain placed heading into Rio? We are in a good lace, because with | :58:22. | :58:29. | |
Scott Rasch, Hans-Dieter Derher, Jessica Mendoza here, and there are | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
other horses coming through as well but we have seen coming through this | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
week. I think we are in a good place. Highs and lows, that is sport | :58:38. | :58:44. | |
for you. And pledging more coming up on Boxing Day. Football Focus at | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
12.25 on BBC One, final score on the red button from 2:30pm. And in | :58:49. | :58:55. | |
Scotland, Sportscene from 4:30pm, and of course Match Of The Day, one | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
of the Boxing Day fixtures on BBC One. It is time to say goodbye from | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
this iconic venue. I think it is fair to say that some people might | :59:05. | :59:07. | |
be having a happier festive period than others. But from all of us here | :59:08. | :59:12. | |
at BBC Sport, Merry Christmas, and goodbye. | :59:13. | :59:16. |