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2006 World Cup Finals
Jan Brink and Bjorsells Briar Back to A Bronze Position
 Swedish Jan Brink hadn't planned on riding the 2006
World Cup Finals but when the FEI granted him an entry,
he did not decline. Though his goal of the year is
competing at the World Equestrian Games, Brink
rescheduled his
calendar and came to Amsterdam to finish third in the
Finals.
Brink finished third with 79.325% in the Kur, in which
the regular piaffe and passage are Briar's strong points.
A kick to the spur in the piaffe at X and a missed
flying change in the canter zig zag were two small
hiccups in the test.
"It's fun to ride the kur, it
makes you ride more on feeling,"
Brink
explained.
"In
the
Grand
Prix
I
had
Briar more in front of my legs and in the kur I made
some small mistakes. Maybe I should have made him
go more in the warm up."
 Hans Ynge Goransson's Bjorsells Briar (by Magini x
Kroket) did not show same brilliance in Amsterdam that
made him win CDIO Aachen in 2005, but the
horse is so confirmed
in
his
work and looks so happy under Jan Brink. "You can't
be at the top every time," Brink said, "Hagen and Aachen
were my highlights last year and
now I'm working toward the World Equestrian Games."
Brink will give Briar a break and aims at keeping
his horse happy and motivated in his
work and ride three shows before the WEG (Aachen, Lingen,
Falsterbo).
"Since Aachen, he has been more steady in the Grand
Prix. I don't want to push him, but I'll slowly get
him ready for that level [of top competition at the
World Equestrian Games]."
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