Dressage South Africa Challenge brings the province’s best horses and riders
TIMSRAND – Top dressage judges tour South Africa and come to Fourways Riding Centre for the Gauteng leg of the DSA Challenge.
The feast of dressage continued at Fourways Riding Centre when the the Gauteng leg of the Dressage South Africa (DSA) Challenge arrived in Timsrand.
It was a busy three days of competition from early morning until late afternoon, 6 to 8 November, as the province’s best in the sport competed for bragging rights and glory.
This just a few weeks after the FEI World Dressage Challenge was held at the same venue, which also saw top dressage horses and riders compete for scores they could compare to their counterparts in six other countries.
The DSA Challenge, for its part, kept the bar raised just as high.
“The standard of horse and rider was excellent. It was the same judges touring the country and scoring riders these four weeks,” said yard owner, Marion Clough.
“I believe the results were right: The best horses and riders won their categories. But it was a long and hard competition with the riders having to deal with the heat in their dressage coats.”
Nevertheless, smiles abounded at the show and the lapa and sheltered areas were popular as riders, friends and family discussed proceedings.
The winners:
Adult Small Tour – FEI Prix St George Test
• First: Ingeborge Sanne riding Callaho For Sure with 69.19 per cent
• Second: Candice Hobday riding Arco360 Esclavo FM with 68.67 per cent
• Third: Trudy Cumberland riding Ipharma Uber Alles with 64.92 per cent
Adult Medium Tour – FEI Intermediate Test
• First: Siobhan Records riding Rathmor Caprice with 63.97 per cent
Adult Big Tour – FEI Intermediate II Test
• First: Adriaan Van Wyk riding Hartenberg Attack with 67.94 per cent
• Second: Andrea Harrison riding Bodenhausen Zarak with 64.41 per cent
• Third: Suzanne Horne riding Cellehof Tadoo with 61.47 per cent
Adult Para-Rider – FEI Graded II Para Team Test
• First: Charmain Watts riding Sultan with 70.378 per cent
Adult Advanced Test
• First: Marisa Cetinich riding Burberry with 72.97 per cent
• Second Hildegard Setzkorn riding Alpha Bonfire with 67.29 per cent
• Third: Carl Boonzaaier riding TI’s Brenda Lee with 67.09 per cent
Next up for the centre is the FEI World Show Jumping Challenge on 14 November, where riders can again compare their scores against counterparts overseas.
This before a graded showjumping show on 22 November, the Stepping Stones Series on 28 and 29 November and a graded showjumping show on 5 December.
Thereafter, riders can dress themselves and their horses up for the a combined pro-am and fancy dress dressage show on 12 and 13 December.
Showjumpers will then have their turn to dress up fir the Christmas fancy dress training show on 16 December.
