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Simon Delestre and Olga Van De Kruishoeve Take the French Baton in Tetouan

This morning it was a top-9 Moroccan wave in the CSI1* PRIX DE ZOUADA 1.25m that delighted the home audience. Zakaria Zoundi led the contingent with a proud salute aboard 15-year-old gelding Vincenzo du Ter, the singular rider in the strong 35 combination class to break the 60-second barrier, clocking in at 59.82 seconds. Hot on his heels was the young Rayane El Ouarzazi with his ‘heart horse,’ 17-year-old mare Carousa 2. The pair have been partnered for just shy of a decade, and he’s determined this will be their final year showing together. So naturally, he cherishes each top result.

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Tetouan Under a Gold Sky de Pegase

Off to a flying start, the 2024 edition of the Morocco Royal Tour (MRT) has officially begun at the emblematic Garde Royale de Tetouan, an equestrian jewel in the heart of this spectacular coastal city. The vet inspection confirmed a talented start list of 95 riders in the CSI1* and an impressive 128 riders in the CSI4*-W. With more than a dozen flags represented, we are assured a thrilling week of top-level competition is ahead.

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2024 Le Printemps Des Sports Équestres: CSI5*Guerdat Takes It All

The huge crowd that came to the Grand Parquet de Fontainebleau this afternoon to watch the final rounds of the third Printemps des Sports Équestres were treated to some high-octane sport. Sport at its best. For the teams from GL events Equestrian Sport, the organiser of the event, this week of competitions served as operational preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, for which it will be responsible in a few weeks' time. And, as a fitting conclusion to the week, the GL events Grand Prix CSI 5* kept the thousands of spectators on the edge of their seats.

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2024 Le Printemps Des Sports Équestres: CDI5* Fry Claims the Win

One may lose a battle but win the war. Having finished second in the Grand Prix Cheval TV of the CDI 5* competition at the Printemps des Sports Équestres, Britain's Charlotte Fry, currently the world number three in her discipline, won the Grand Prix Freestyle to music, sponsored by the Île de France region, and presented by Cheval TV. Riding her stallion Everdale, the twenty-eight-year-old reigning world champion, regained the top step of the podium ahead of her main challenger, Dutch rider Emmelie Scholtens, who closed in second place with Indian Rock and whose horse was undoubtedly a little less precise than that of her British rival. In third place, France's Pauline Basquin put in an impressive performance and confirmed the consistent results obtained with IFCE Sertorius de Rima Z in recent weeks.

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2024 Le Printemps des Sports Équestres: Touzaint Tops the CCI 3*-S

Having already taken the lead in the rankings after the dressage and cross-country tests, France's Nicolas Touzaint won the first the CCI 3*-S competition of the Printemps des Sports Equestres at the Grand Parquet de Fontainebleau. Riding his nine-year-old Fibonacci de Lessac*HDC, the 2004 Olympic team champion and Tokyo Olympic team bronze medallist produced a perfect performance in the show jumping test, leaving his rivals with no chance. And particularly Thomas Carlile, who managed to complete a clear round in the show jumping with Darmagnac de Béliard, thereby retaining his second place in the rankings. Third place also went to Nicolas Touzaint, this time riding Gauguin du Busson, with another a clear round.

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2024 Le Printemps Des Sports Équestres: Para Dressage Athletes Take Center Stage

One of the new additions to the rich programme of events at the 2024 Printemps des Sports Équestres is para-dressage, with the CPEDI 3* competition getting things underway at the Grand Parquet de Fontainebleau for a great week of sport lasting until Sunday 28 April. And the least we can say is that the world's top stars in the discipline were ready for the event!

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It’s Longines League of Nations™ Time at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, USA

Today the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, FL, will play host to an amazing group of athletes — which include eight of the top ten and fifteen of the top twenty riders in the world rankings — competing in the second leg of the inaugural Longines League of Nations™.

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Fuchs Tops the $330,000 Lugano Diamonds Grand Prix CSIO5* At World Equestrian Center, Ocala

Martin Fuchs (SUI) emerged victorious from a star-studded field to win the $330,000 Lugano Diamonds Grand Prix CSIO5* on Thursday, March 21, at World Equestrian Center – Ocala (WEC) in Ocala, FL.The best Jumping athletes in the world have converged at WEC – Ocala to contest the four-day Longines League of Nations™ event. Thursday’s featured competition saw 49 entries come forward to try their luck over the track set by Irish course designer Alan Wade. The clock proved to be just as challenging as the course itself, with five riders clearing all the obstacles only to pick up time faults for exceeding the 80-second time allowed.’

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Julien Anquetin Triumphs In the Grand Prix Hermès

Epic sport and a showstopping spectacle raise the roof of the Grand Palais Éphémère. At the end of a very intense class with the world’s elite riders, Frenchman Julien Anquetin secures victory in the Grand Prix Hermès with the gelding Blood Diamond Du Pont, the finest victory of his career. 32 years of age, he finishes ahead of compatriot Julien Épaillard, world No.4, considered by one and all as the fastest rider in the world, riding Donatello d’Auge. He succeeds the rider from Luxembourg, Victor Bettendorf, winner of the Grand Prix Hermès 2023. Colombian Rene Lopez Lizarazo, based in north-east France for nearly four decades, completes the podium.

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Saut Hermès Saturday Action: Angelica Augustsson Zanotelli and Simon Delestre are Grand Champions

The spectators gathered at the Grand Palais Éphémère witnessed a marvellous spectacle this Saturday with sport taking centre stage. Swedish rider Angelica Augustsson Zanotelli brought the crowd to their feet by securing victory in the Saut Hermès, scooping the second biggest prize of the competition riding her mare Kalinka van de Nachtegaele. On Sunday at 15:30 hours, she will rediscover the world’s top riders in the Grand Prix Hermès, the grand finale of the competition.

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The Fourteenth Edition Of the Saut Hermès: Lativia and France Secure Victory On Day One

By winning the Prix Hermès Sellier, the main class on this first day of the fourteenth edition of the Saut Hermès, Latvian Kristaps Neretnieks was the surprise champion ahead of the best riders in the world, who are competing at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris through until Sunday. Kicking off the day, Edward Lévy treated spectators to the first rendition of the Marseillaise in the Prix du Grand Palais with his mare Confidence d’Ass. In the Talents Hermès class, reserved for the U25 riders, William Ligier de la Prade also took the win for France with Galilée.