Tonight excitement will reign at Miami Beach as the 1.60m Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix is set to take place. This morning the CSI5* combinations battled it out in the 1.50m Longines Ranking class. In it, Brazil's Yuri Mansur speeded to victory aboard his 10-year-old Chacco-Blue-mare, Miss Blue Mystic Rose.
In this 1.50m class Mansur and his 10-year-old mare jumped to victory with over one second difference. Spain's Eduardo Alvarez Aznar, who won the Global Champions League yesterday with Madrid in Motion, followed as runner-up. Aznar and D'Orient Batilly (Numero Uno) advanced on Germany's Christian Ahlmann.
Ahlmann completed the stage aboard the 11-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding, Mandato van de Neerheide.
Compatriot, Daniel Deusser followed in a fourth place with his Bingo Ste Hermelle (Number One d'Iso). In front of her home crowd, USA's Laura Kraut completed the top five with the 11-year-old SF-gelding, Calgary Tame (Old Chap Tame).