The double clear round French show jumping team of Juliet Faligot and her confidant Arkhana de Riverland (Cornet Obolensky) was not good enough to make it to the Nations Cup venue in Madrid this Saturday. In front of their public, it was the Spanish riders who beat themselves better than the Belgian and Irish teams.
Ten nations came to battle Saturday at the Nations Cup in Madrid. Manuel Fernandes Saro / Acoufina PS (action-breaker), Mariano Martinez Bastida / Belano vidi Viginhov Z (Berlin), Santiago Nunes Riva / Valentino de Husz Z (Vivaldi du Seinour) / Eduardo Alvarez . With three double clear rounds, all four delegates from Spain completed the event clean score. In second place, Belgium, represented by Thibaut Spitz, Thibault Philippets, Gudrun Pateett and Gilles Thomas, finished with four points, eight more than Ireland (Richard Howley – Jessica Burke – Kevin Gallagher – Jenny Rankin). On the clock.
On the French side, only northern Juliette Falligot, who first made the team, twice blocked the difficulties of course designer Isabel Fernandez de Connett and signed two beautiful clear rounds. Philip Leoni, second in the running order with ten-year-old BWP Marr, Miss Mary Vant Vinnenhoff (Edjas van t Mieralnest), won a clear round for his part, followed by four points, Olivier Perro and Gle Events Dora. De Aigwilli (Kannan) scored four and twelve penalty points. The last to leave for France were Mary Pellegrin and her descendants from the breeding ground of Philippe Provost, who completed an eight-point course and a four-point course at Borele de Font‌combre (Tinkas Boy). Race results: At the end of this stage of the Second League Nations Cup, France finished with twelve points and placed fourth.
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