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2007 Spanish Dressage
Championships
Juan Matute, 2007 Spanish Dressage Champion
November 7, 2007
 Juan
Matute became the Spanish Grand Prix Dressage Champion
at the 2007 Spanish Dressage Championships held
in Oviedo, Spain, November 2 - 4, 2007. Aboard
the chestnut Hanoverian gelding Wie Atlantico (by
Wie Weltmeyer), Matute won the Grand Prix and Kur
to Music and placed second in the Grand Prix Special.
For his Kur to Music he earned a 70.25% and totalled
202,110 points overall. This is Matute's sixth
national champion's title in his career. |
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silver medal went to Beatriz Ferrer Salat on
her new Grand Prix horse Faberge, who is doing
his first season at Grand Prix level. Aboard
this 11-year old Hanoverian gelding by Falkland
out of Akelei, Ferrer Salat totalled 201.863
points, placing second in the Grand Prix, winning
the Special and ranking third in the Kur to Music.
Ferrer Salat debuted her new freestyle "Baile
de Máscaras" (Bal Masque), composed by Slings
Music Cast, at the Spanish Championships. "Exceptional
and exclusive in this freestyle," Cees Slings
commented, "is an extra halt almost at the
end of the freestyle, following and supporting
the final crescendo of the music to the highest
degree, with a final center line in passage."
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 The
bronze medal went to Victor Alvarez on the Andalusian
bred Cava Iles (by Talisman IV). Alvarez scored
consistent marks of 65% in the Grand Prix and Special,
placing him third and improved considerably in
the kur to music, in which he finished second on
70.1%. Alvarez also performed to a Slings Music
Cast composition, “Guerreros de la Paz” which
was composed this year. Alvarez' mount Iles was
gelded and few months ago and just recently made
his come back to the show ring. |
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Spanish national title in the small tour went to
young rider Carmen Naesgaard, who won all three
rounds with crescendo scores. In the Prix St Georges
she got 66,900%,k in the Intermediaire I 67.200%
and in the Kur to Music 72,950%. She totalled 207.050
overall and stayed far ahead of silver medallist
Beatriz Ferrer Salat on the Dutch warmblood gelding
Peter Pan (by Gribaldi). This pair got 197.850
in total. The bronze medal went to Jose Manuel
Estrada on Nobel. They achieved 194.450 in total. |
Photos by Mirjam Madiol and www.secretariasecuestres.com
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