"It's
wonderful that Arjen and Coby are able to score so closely
to the marks I ride, it makes it all more exciting but
I will always try to be ahead of them," Anky commented
after her winning freestyle. Anky van Grunsven, 32 years
old and already winner of five World Cup Titles. At
Indoor Brabant she did it again, and how! With good
old Gestion Bonfire, her 17 year old mount with whom
she was elevated to equestrian stardom, Anky rode to
the music of her new freestyle "Something Old, something
New, a composition based on her older track Song Sung
Blue.
Many critics have been sceptic about the age of Bonfire
and him having lost his 'touch' but in de Brabanthallen,
they were baffled. Her test was completely errorless
and if one would be extremely critic than the only comments
to be made were that Bonfire's piaffe is a little bit
swung beside the body instead of under the gravitational
point and that the tempi's every single stride could
have been jumped more forward instead of upwards. But
these remarks were so small in regard to the sheer brilliance
of the whole, that one could not but conclude that Anky
is simply the supreme goddess
of the kur. Her new kur featured the score of Song Sung
Blue for the piaffe-passage reprises, which fits Bonfire
like a glove. However, personally I believe that the
West Side Story kur is nicer as it arouses feelings
of ambition, wanting and dreaming thanks to to the lovely
lines of "I feel Pretty" and "Maria".
After the announcement of the final scores, Anky was
called into the arena for a live interview. When she
was asked by tv-commentator if she experienced any problems
in her freestyle, Anky simply said "No". For the future,
Anky's planning on giving her Bonnie a period of rest.
This
actually consists of going out on the trials and being
lunged. "I still want to enter him in the Dutch Championships
so that I can show him in one outdoor competition and
then it's Sydney, I really want him to run there," she
said in all honesty.
"It's
wonderful that Arjen and Coby are able to score so closely
to the marks I ride, it makes it all more exciting but
I will always try to be ahead of them," Anky commented
after her winning freestyle. Anky van Grunsven, 32 years
old and already winner of five World Cup Titles. At
Indoor Brabant she did it again, and how! With good
old Gestion Bonfire, her 17 year old mount with whom
she was elevated to equestrian stardom, Anky rode to
the music of her new freestyle "Something Old, something
New, a composition based on her older track Song Sung
Blue.
