FEI Dressage World Cup™ – Isabell Werth Retains Her Crown In the Grand Prix Freestyle Presented by FFE Generali.

Photo ©PSV - Jean Morel
Photo ©PSV - Jean Morel

If the Longines Equita Lyon, Concours Hippique International were a kingdom, there is no doubt that Germany's Isabell Werth would be its Queen! Since the launch of the FEI Dressage World Cup stage in Lyon in 2009, the German rider had already won this major event in the Rhône-Alpes region six times. And today, she made it seven! Riding DSP Quantaz, the star of dressage in Lyon won this World Cup stage for the seventh time (in fifteen years) in front of an adoring crowd.

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Longines Equita Lyon Concours Hippique International: FEI Dressage World Cup™ Grand Prix Presented by Cre-Ara

Photo ©PSV - Jean Morel
Photo ©PSV - Jean Morel

This morning, the FEI Dressage World CupTM got underway at the Longines Equita Lyon, Concours Hippique International, the first of four FEI World CupsTM stages to be held at the event this year! The world's top riders battled it out in the Grand Prix presented by CRE-ARA in the arena at Lyon-Eurexpo. It ended with another victory for the queen of the discipline, Germany's Isabell Werth, riding DSP Quantaz, and an extremely fine third place for France's Pauline Basquin, on Sertorius de Rima Z IFCE, the Olympic pairing, who this summer had the spectators in Versailles dancing to sound of Alors on Danse (So, let's dance) by Stromae during their freestyle routine!

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The FEI Driving World Cup™ Presented by Laiterie de Montaigu at Longines Equita Lyon

Lyon will play host to seven of the world's most talented drivers who will be battling it out in the first leg of the 2024-2025 FEI Driving World Cup™ season. As Australia's Boyd Exell, his long-time rival will be absent, Dutch driver Ijsbrand Chardon, is hoping to have a win in Lyon. But that's without counting on young Belgian driver Dries Degrieck, who has already beaten the discipline's two leading drivers in Leipzig this year.
The drivers are keen to have a victory in Lyon. And the absence of Boyd Exell, the four-time winner of the FEI Driving World Cup™ presented by Laiterie de Montaigu, will spur them on even more.

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Equita Lyon 2024: Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Clash of Champions


Winners from all the medal categories from the recent Paris 2024 Olympic Games, whether they took home gold, silver, bronze, individual or team will be represented in the ring at Longines Equita Lyon, Concours Hippique International from 30 October to 3 November. No fewer than seven riders who won medals in Versailles this summer will be performing in Eurexpo's ring for the Western European League Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™’s third leg.  Among them will be German rider and individual gold medallist Christian Kukuk and all the members of the French team who won the bronze medal: Simon Delestre, Julien Epaillard and Olivier Perreau. An exceptional line-up, with seven of the world's top ten riders taking part in what has become an unmissable event in Lyon. Star riders who won medals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, experienced champions who rank among the best in the Longines World Rankings, and a young up-and-coming generation keen to establish themselves among the elite. It's a dream field for a show that will boast some superb sport and competitions.

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Morocco Royal Tour: Khaled Almobty and Davenport, the Winning Round Specialists

Photo ©MRT/Thomas Reiner
Photo ©MRT/Thomas Reiner

A week after their clean sweep in Rabat, Saudi Arabia returned to their winning ways in El Jadida, with Khaled Almobty and Davenport taking exactly the same event as last week, a winning-round.

The rather tricky first round saw a quartet of the fastest four-faulters join the list of 12 finalists for the second round, including four female riders. The advantage in this class is that those who made errors in the first round have a chance at redemption, for the scorecard is wiped clean ahead of the second decisive round. So, it was a new course of seven obstacles, including a double, which naturally takes on the competitive character of a jump-off—a galloping jump-off, as we like them, with a long final run between the last two oxers. With an already enthusiastic public, it was all the more incentive to lay down the gauntlet. Like that, sport becomes a show!

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Morocco Royal Tour: Who other than Gaudiano?

Photo ©MRT/Thomas Reiner
Photo ©MRT/Thomas Reiner

For European riders, the third leg of the Morocco Royal Tour in El Jadida marks a smooth transition from the summer season to indoor competition under the best possible circumstances. For example, on a track worthy of the finest arenas on the World Cup circuit. The first day of this return to indoors featured two “appetizing” events, while the serious business begins tomorrow with the qualifying round for the 4* Grand Prix.

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Morocco Royal Tour: Grand Finale in Rabat for Saudi Arabia!

Photo © R&B Presse / Morgan Froment
Photo © R&B Presse / Morgan Froment

After the Saudis' flawless sweep of all the weekend's “top” 4* events, we had our bets on this result…and the green jackets didn’t disappoint the prognosticators. Gathering the lead after the first round, they clinched the coveted Nations' Cup in Morocco for the first time, with two double clear rounds from Abdullhah Alsharbatly and Ramzy Al Duhami and three foot-perfect efforts in the second round, leaving Italy 5 points behind and overtaking Belgium, who finished third this year.

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Khaled Almobty and Davenport VDL soared through the Moroccan night.

Photo © R&B Presse / Morgan Froment
Photo © R&B Presse / Morgan Froment

After the victory of Spain's Carolina Aresu Garcia Obregon in the Accumulator with Telhueche (“a horse with a huge heart,” said Carolina), the 4* riders met again at night for the main event of the day, the Prix Maroc Telecom, a 1.50 m “winning-tour” in which 31 riders took part... And in the end, it was a Saudi who reigned victorious.

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