World Cup finals 2015 (show jumping and dressage)

World Cup Final 2015
Tournament series:	FEI World Cup Dressage 2014/2015, FEI World Cup Show Jumping 2014/2015
Venue:	Thomas & Mack Center , Las Vegas , United States
Participating riders:	18 dressage riders; 40 show jumpers (without framework tests)
Internet:	www.worldcuplasvegas.com

The 2015 World Cup final in show jumping and dressage was the final of the World Cup series in two equestrian disciplines . It was conducted April 15 through April 19, 2015 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas , Nevada .

World Cup Finals in Las Vegas

Las Vegas is a traditional venue for world cup finals in show jumping and dressage. The premiere was the show jumping World Cup final at the end of the 1999/2000 season. From 2003 to 2009 the world cup finals in show jumping took place here every two years, and from 2005 to 2009 the world cup finals for dressage riders also took place every two years. After a long break, Las Vegas was again awarded the contract for the final in April 2015.

In contrast to the World Cup finals in Europe in previous years, only one other international competition, the Show Jumping Grand Prix of Las Vegas on Saturday evening, was held in the framework of the tournament.

Dressage riding

Qualified participants

World Cup	Number of riders who qualify for the World Cup finals from this league	qualified participants
Central European League	2	Jelena Sidnewa Tatjana Dorofeewa
North American League	2	Steffen Peters Laura Graves
Pacific League	1	Mary Hanna (rejection, so another wildcard)
Western European League	9	Edward Gal Jessica von Bredow-Werndl Fabienne Lütkemeier Isabell Werth Danielle Heijkoop (rejection, thus another wildcard) Hans Peter Minderhoud Agnete Kirk Thinggaard Morgan Barbançon Mestre Paulinda Friberg
Participants from Asia / South America	1	not forgiven
FEI wildcards	2	Lars Petersen (additional rider from the North American League) Mikala Münter Gundersen (additional rider from the North American League) Malin Hamilton Terhi Stegars Inessa Merkulowa
World Cup winner 2013/2014	1	Charlotte Dujardin

Procedure and results

Grand Prix

The Grand Prix was held on Thursday afternoon (April 16) . This was the entry test of the World Cup final, but this was mandatory for all participating dressage riders.

With a clear gap of more than six percent on the runner-up, Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro won the Grand Prix .

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Charlotte Dujardin	Valegro	85.414%
2	Edward Gal	Undercover	79.057%
3	Steffen Peters	Legolas	76.843%
4th	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	Unee BB	74.843%
5	Laura Graves	Verdades	74.314%

(best 5 of 18 participants)

Grand Prix Freestyle (Final)

After a test-free day, the dressage riders started their final test on Saturday afternoon (April 18th). Only the result of this Grand Prix Freestyle counted for the World Cup final .

The riders and horses presented the special atmosphere in Las Vegas with a challenge. So there was applause during the rides, which is unusual for dressage tests. The trophy on the edge of the square, illuminated by the headlights, also irritated some horses. Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro dominated the test again with a lead of almost ten percent . Despite a ride clearly under tension, Edward Gal and Undercover came second in the World Cup final.

Although they got off to a bad start early on during their freestyle with unsuccessful changes of two ( rated 4 by all judges ), Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Unee BB were able to convince the judges with a very difficult freestyle. With 80.464 percent, they came in third place. First behind Jessica von Bredow-Werndl in fourth place, Steffen Peters was disqualified because his horse Legolas had a bloody spot on the side, and Peter's spurs were also bloody. Peters apologized after the exam: “ I am embarrassed, I am fully guilty, at the end of the day it is me who is responsible for the horse's welfare, I have failed. "

Result:

	equestrian	horse	rating
1	Charlotte Dujardin	Valegro	94.196%
2	Edward Gal	Undercover	84.696%
3	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl	Unee BB	80.464%
4th	Laura Graves	Verdades	79.125%
5	Hans Peter Minderhoud	flirt	79.036%
6th	Isabell Werth	El Santo NRW	77.875%
7th	Inessa Merkulova	Mister X	76.911%
8th	Morgan Barbançon Mestre	Painted black	76.161%
9	Mikala Münter Gundersen	My lady	75.018%
10	Fabienne Lütkemeier	Qui Vincit Dynamis	74.804%
11	Agnete Kirk Thinggaard	Jojo Az	74.036%
12	Lars Petersen	Mariett	73.839%
13	Terhi Stegars	Axis TSF	71.214%
14th	Paulinda Friberg	Di Lapponia T	71,000%
15th	Malin Hamilton	Fleetwood	70.625%
16	Tatiana Dorofeewa	Upperville	69.357%
17th	Jelena Sidnewa	Romeo star	68.571%
-	Steffen Peters	Legolas	OUT

Show jumping

The focus of the show jumping program is made up of the three valuation tests of the World Cup finals. There is also a Grand Prix as a framework test outside of the World Cup.

Qualified participants (World Cup)

World Cup	Number of riders who qualify for the World Cup finals from this league	qualified participants
Arab League	3	Abdullah asch-Scharbatly (refusal) Bassem Hassan Mohammed Ali bin Chalid Al Thani
Caucasus League	1	Kanan Nowruzow (cancellation)
Central Asian League	1	Rinat Galimow (rejection)
Chinese league	1	Zhao Zhiwen (cancellation)
Central European League	3	Kristaps Neretnieks Wladimir Beletski Andis Varna
Japan League	1	Tae Satō (cancellation)
North American League	2 Canadians	Chris Sorensen Jonathon Millar (cancellation)
	2 Mexicans	Manuel Alvarez Ruizgalindo Everardo Hegewisch Diaz Infante
	10 Americans	Todd Minikus Laura Kraut Beezie Madden Jack Towell Kirsten Coe McLain Ward Leslie Burr-Howard (rejection) Katherine Dinan (replacement) Rich Fellers Susan Artes (rejection) Karl Cook Vinton Karrasch (replacement)
		no additional tabs
Pacific League	2 Australians	Tim Clarke (cancellation) Jessica Brown (cancellation)
	1 New Zealander	Katie Laurie
South African League	1	Nicole Horwood (cancellation)
Central American and Caribbean League	1	Manuel Espinosa Pla (cancellation)
Northern South American League	1	Camilo Rueda (cancellation)
Southern South American League	2	Sérgio Henriques Neves Marins (rejection) Artemus de Almeida (rejection) João Eduardo Ferreira de Carvalho (successor)
Southeast Asian League	1	Siengsaw Lertratanachai (cancellation)
Western European League	18th	Steve Guerdat Bertram Allen Kevin Staut Lucy Davis ° Marco Kutscher Edwina Tops-Alexander ° Harrie Smolders (rejection) Marcus Ehning Maikel van der Vleuten Douglas Lindelöw Jur Vrieling Hans-Dieter Dreher Rolf-Göran Bengtsson (rejection) Simon Delestre (rejection) Martin Fuchs Geir Gulliksen Pénélope Leprevost Sergio Álvarez Moya ( replacement ) Luca Maria Moneta ( replacement ) Pius Schwizer (replacement) Gerco Schröder (replacement) Jos Verlooy (replacement) Patrice Delaveau (replacement)
Special starting place for participants from the host country	1	Not applicable as US riders are qualified for the World Cup finals
World Cup winner 2013/2014	1	Daniel Deußer

° Additional rider: If a rider has his place of residence in a country other than his home country, he can participate in the league of this country and is initially also rated for this league. If he qualifies for the World Cup finals based on the regulations of this league, he does not count as an additional participant for the (limited) number of starting places in this league.

Procedure and results

World cup

1st partial examination

After a warm-up competition for the show jumpers on Wednesday (April 15th) without evaluation, the World Cup final started one day later with the first partial test. On Wednesday evening, the participants competed in a time jumping test . As explained in the article FEI World Cup Show Jumping , the result was converted into penalty points.

The victory in this first test went to Bertram Allen with Molly Malone V , as in the first test of the World Equestrian Games a good six months earlier . He had the fastest time of all faultless rides. The winning couple of the World Cup final last year, Daniel Deußer and Cornet d'Amour, were even faster than Allen . Due to a throw, Deußer had to accept four penalty seconds and only came in tenth. Two other German riders had little luck: Marcus Ehning ended the ride prematurely after his stallion Singular was more and more tense during the ride . Marco Kutscher could not start, his horse Cornet's Cristallo came to a veterinary clinic with suspected colic before the start of the test .

Result:

	equestrian	horse	time	Points (overall rating)
1	Bertram Allen	Molly Malone V.	65.45 s + 0 penalty seconds = 65.45	41
2	Rich Fellers	Flexible	66.11 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.11	39
3	Patrice Delaveau	Orient express	66.44 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.44	38
	Jur Vrieling	Zirocco Blue	66.44 s + 0 penalty seconds = 66.44	38
5	Steve Guerdat	Paille	67.09 s + 0 penalty seconds = 67.09	36
6th	Pénélope Leprevost	Vagabond de la Pomme	67.57 s + 0 penalty seconds = 67.57	35
7th	Martin Fuchs	Future	68.17 s + 0 penalty seconds = 68.17	34
8th	Jos Verlooy	domino	68.27 s + 0 penalty seconds = 68.27	33
9	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	68.28 s + 0 penalty seconds = 68.28	32
10	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	65.09 s + 4 penalty seconds = 69.09	31

(best 10 of 40 participants)

2nd partial examination

On the evening of April 17th, the second test of the World Cup final took place. This was a jumping competition with one jump-off .

In addition to the four starter pairs who were eliminated in the first sub-test or who had given up, Kristaps Neretnieks, who had previously been in 35th place, no longer took part in the second sub-test. With that 35 horse-rider pairs started.

The main source of error in the normal course of this second special stage was the very difficult triple combination. Bertram Allen and Molly Malone V were again very fast, but due to an obstacle drop they dropped to third place in the overall standings. Six pairs with faultless rides made it into the jump-off of the second special stage, including Steve Guerdat and Rich Fellers. These two took first and second place in the interim ranking of the World Cup final.

After the first two partial exams, the points achieved by the participants are added together. These evaluation points are then converted into fault points.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting		Points (overall rating)
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Steve Guerdat	Paille	0	-	0	32.87	41
2	Beezie Madden	Simon	0	-	0	33.31	39
3	Lucy Davis	Barron	0	-	4th	32.53	38
4th	Rich Fellers	Flexible	0	-	4th	32.80	37
5	Geir Gulliksen	Edesa S Banjan	0	-	4th	40.06	36
6th	McLain Ward	Roth child	0	-	18th	48.44	35
7th	Bertram Allen	Molly Malone V.	4th	69.39			34
8th	Douglas Lindelow	Casello	4th	69.66			33
9	Pénélope Leprevost	Vagabond de la Pomme	4th	70.01			32
10	Jos Verlooy	domino	4th	70.43			31

(best 10 of 35 participants)

3rd partial examination

The third partial test, a jumping competition with two different rounds , marked the end of the show jumping World Cup final . The exam took place on Sunday afternoon (April 19th). She was not ridden against time, but an allowable time was provided.

Like the second part of the test, the two rounds of the third part of the World Cup final were extremely demanding. Several riders criticized the course structure of the World Cup final, McLain Ward wrote, among other things: “ ... looking back on this year's World Cup final I have to say that this was the worst sport I have ever seen in my career ... me I have never seen so many top horses stop, land in jumps and seem to be completely helpless. Or so many front runners who had to pull and stab just to get a good distance. The problem wasn't the height or the distance, but the approach to many of the obstacles. “ Marcus Ehning also criticized the course of the second partial test, among other things:“ ... it was difficult even for a top rider to catch the steep jump properly and after that it was impossible to ride the triple combination straight and I think that was unfair. You saw a few riders really stumble and that doesn't have to be. The fact that the triple was at the end of the course didn't matter. It was the way it was built. "

In the third part of the test none of the participants managed to remain without mistakes, four riders achieved a result of four penalty points. Rich Fellers lost his chance of winning the World Cup final during both rounds, who entered the test without penalty points and dropped to seventh place with eight penalty points per round. The test went similarly bad for Martin Fuchs, who received 17 penalty points and dropped from fifth to eleventh place.

As the last rider in the second lap, Steve Guerdat had a gap of nine penalty points on the runner-up Pénélope Leprevost. The last jump, which had to be ridden from a 180 degree turn, Guerdat rode at risk in order to stay within the allowed time. After he had already received a throw-off in the course of the ride, he got no distance at this obstacle and received another four penalty points. However, he stayed in time and thus won the World Cup final by one penalty point.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	Penalty points
			1st round	2nd round	total
1	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	0	4th	4th
	Beezie Madden	Simon	0	4th	4th
	Jos Verlooy	domino	0	4th	4th
	Pénélope Leprevost	Vagabond de la Pomme	0	4th	4th
5	Ali bin Chalid Al Thani	First devision	4th	4th	8th
	Douglas Lindelow	Casello	0	8th	8th
	Bertram Allen	Molly Malone V.	4th	4th	8th
	Steve Guerdat	Paille	0	8th	8th

(best 8 of 29 participants)

Final score

	equestrian	Horse / horses	1st exam	2nd exam	Points from exam 1 and 2	Points converted into penalty points	3rd exam		Penalty points
			Points	Points			Penalty points	Penalty points
1	Steve Guerdat	Paille	36	41	77	0	0	8th	8th
2	Pénélope Leprevost	Vagabond de la Pomme	35	32	67	5	0	4 (65.30 s)	9 (65.30 s)
3	Bertram Allen	Molly Malone V.	41	34	75	1	4th	4 (65.87 s)	9 (65.87 s)
4th	Beezie Madden	Simon	26th	39	65	6th	0	4 (65.78 s)	10 (65.78 s)
5	Jos Verlooy	domino	33	31	64	6th	0	4 (67.34 s)	10 (67.34 s)
6th	Maikel van der Vleuten	Verdi	32	29	61	8th	0	4th	12
7th	Rich Fellers	Flexible	39	37	76	0	8th	8th	16
8th	Douglas Lindelow	Casello	24	33	57	10	0	8th	18th
9	Lucy Davis	Barron	25th	38	63	7th	8th	4th	19th
10	Jur Vrieling	Zirocco Blue	38	25th	63	7th	8th	5	20th
11	Martin Fuchs	Future	34	30th	64	6th	4th	13	23
12	Gerco Schröder	Cognac Champblanc	23	26th	49	14th	9	1	24
13	Sergio Álvarez Moya	Carlo	29	22nd	51	13	4th	8th	25th
14th	Daniel Deußer	Cornet d'Amour	31	20th	51	13	8th	5	26th
15th	Ali bin Chalid Al Thani	First devision	8th	28	36	20th	4th	4 (67.48 s)	28 (67.48 s)
16	Bassem Hassan Mohammed	Déjà-vu	30th	17th	47	15th	8th	5 (69.09 s)	28 (69.09 s)
17th	Kevin Staut	Silvana and Qurack de Falaise	27	16	43	17th	8th	4 (67.10 s)	29 (67.10 s)
18th	Hans-Dieter Dreher	Cool and Easy	18th	27	45	16	8th	5 (69.26 s)	29 (69.26 s)
19th	Kirsten Coe	Czardas and Baronez	22nd	13	35	21st	4th	17th	42
20th	McLain Ward	Roth child	28	35	63	7th	8th	UP	-
21st	Luca Maria Moneta	Connery	12	19th	31	23	4th		(27)
22nd	Vinton Karrasch	Follow me II	19th	15th	34	21st	8th		(29)
23	Pius Schwizer	Toulago	17th	24	41	18th	12		(30)
24	Laura herb	Nouvelle	16	18th	34	21st	12		(33)
25th	Geir Gulliksen	Edesa S Banjan	7th	36	43	17th	20th		(37)
26th	Chris Sorensen	Bobby	11	14th	25th	26th	12		(38)
27	Karl Cook	Jonkheer Z	13	23	36	20th	20th		(40)
28	Manuel Alvarez Ruizgalindo	Spirit Magic	21st	21st	42	17th	OUT
29	Andis Varna	Coradina	10	11	21st	28	UP
30th	Patrice Delaveau	Orient express	38	0 (OUT)	38
31	Jack Towell	Lucifer V	20th	0 (UP)	20th
32	João Eduardo Ferreira de Carvalho	Ragtime rouge	5	12	17th
33	Katie Laurie	Kiwi Iron Mark	15th	0 (UP)	15th
34	Todd Minikus	Babalou	14th	0 (UP)	14th
35	Vladimir Beletsky	Rocketman	9	0 (UP)	38
36	Kristaps Neretnieks	Romanee Cece	6th
37	Katherine Dinan	Stakorado	0 (OUT)
	Edwina Tops-Alexander	Fair Light van't Heike	0 (UP)
	Everardo Hegewisch Diaz Infante	Electric	0 (UP)
	Marcus Ehning	Singular	0 (UP)

AUSG = eliminated
N.GES. = not started
AUFG = given up / waived

Further exams

Outside the World Cup, the Canadian Pacific Grand Prix of Las Vegas, a jumping competition with one jump-off, was held on the evening of April 18, 2015. The Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP) sponsored the test, which is endowed with 75,000 US dollars .

Katie Laurie and Kiwi Iron Mark , who had been eliminated from the World Cup final the day before, won this Grand Prix . Marcus Ehning narrowly missed the jump-off of the three faultless riders with Singular , and with a time penalty he came in fourth.

Result:

	equestrian	horse	1st round		Sting
			Penalty points	Time ( s )	Penalty points	Time ( s )
1	Katie Laurie	Kiwi Iron Mark	0	-	0	37.79
2	Alec Lawler	Agamemnon	0	-	0	39.36
3	Todd Minikus	Babalou	0	-	4th	38.87
4th	Marcus Ehning	Singular	1	69.20
5	Vladimir Beletsky	Rocketman	4th	63.10

(best 5 of 22 participants)

media

The FEI broadcast the World Cup finals in both disciplines for a fee via its Internet portal FEI TV. Pan-European TV broadcaster Eurosport showed a 70-minute recording of the show jumping World Cup final on the night following the last day of the tournament. A one-hour summary of the final of the dressage riders was broadcast by Eurosport on May 6, 2015.

Web links

• Website of the World Cup Finals in Las Vegas (English)
• Timing and results (English)
• Website of the FEI World Cup Series (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viva Las Vegas! , Reiter Revue International , March 25, 2015
2. ↑ Result Final Pacific League  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: Grand Prix de Dressage
4. ↑ World Cup finals: Grand Prix victory for Charlotte Dujardin, Gal second, von Bredow-Werndl best German , St. Georg , April 17th, 2015
5. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: The breakdown final of Las Vegas
6. ↑ World Cup Final Dressage: Grand Prix Freestyle
7. ↑ Longines FEI World Cup ™ Jumping Final 2014/2015 athletes confirm , fei.org, March 31, 2015
8. ↑ FEI World Cup Rankings Jumping 2014/2015
9. ↑ World Cup final jumping: Two 19-year-old Irishmen in front, Deusser after dropping tenth, Kutscher's horse in the clinic , St. Georg, April 17th, 2015
10. ^ Result show jumping, 1st partial test World Cup finals
11. ↑ Overall ranking of the World Cup final show jumping, intermediate result after the 1st partial test
12. ↑ World Cup final jumping: Disappointment for Daniel Deußer, Steve Guerdat in the lead , St. Georg, April 18, 2015
13. ↑ Result show jumping, 2nd partial test World Cup finals
14. ↑ Criticism from the riders: was the final too difficult? , eqwo.net, April 20, 2015
15. ↑ World Cup Las Vegas: Guerdat's first title, Anger about bad ... , St. George, April 20, 2015
16. ↑ Result show jumping, 3rd partial test of the World Cup finals
17. ↑ ^{a b} World Cup Show Jumping Final: Final result
18. ↑ World Cup final show jumping: intermediate result after two partial tests
19. ↑ Show jumping: Result Canadian Pacific Grand Prix of Las Vegas