No less than 75 riders had lined up to compete in this class counting for the World Ranking, where thirteen succeeded with a clear round to move on to race against the clock in the jump-off. Coming in towards the end, the 17-year-old Belgian talent put the 11-year-old gelding Bubsylon (Upsilon van de Heffinck x Joost) into top gear to shave the time down to an incredible 36.90 seconds after a lightning fast round. With his impressive performance, Morssinkhof pushed yesterday’s man-on-fire Koen Vereecke (BEL) down to second, with 1.29 seconds separating the two. Verecke rode his winner from yesterday’s Grand Prix Qualifier; the 9-year-old mare Ina van de Nieuwburghoeve (Nabab de Reve x Coriano). Micky Morssinkhof (NED) rounded off the top three aboard Care For Love (Cardento x Quite Easy 958), almost two seconds behind the winning time.
In the CSI2* 1.35m with immediate jump-off presented by Heusdens-Schäffer, it was another home win as Mathias Hazebroek (BEL) snatched the top honours from Katharina Offel (GER) who took an early lead as fifth to go. Riding the 10-year-old gelding Hanibal (Darco x Heartbreaker), Hazebroek came in towards the end of the class and shaved off 0.46 seconds on Offel and the 7-year-old Casper J&J Z’s (Cicero Z x Wiensender) time to bring home the victory to Belgium. Third place went to another home rider; Stephanie Vermeulen (BEL) on Iron Lady Van T Meulenhof (Parco x Quidam de Revel).
After winning this morning’s 1.35m presented by Gintin, Justine Tebbel (GER) was again unbeatable in the CSI2* 1.30m Table A against the clock presented by Dietz – this time riding Casa Ciara (Coupe de Coeur x Contender). The young talented German rider stopped the clock at 67.32 seconds, 2.5 seconds faster than runner-up Leonie Peeter (BEL) – who was best on behalf of the hosts aboard the 8-year-old Calva Z (Calvados Z x Upstairs). Third place also went to Belgium, courtesy of Aiko Paridean with Alpenfee (Gentleman x Lennard).
Results from all classes can be found via this link.