European Championships in Aachen underway

The first showjumping took place at 9.30 am at Aachen and ended with a victory for the Italian Emanuele Gaudiano on Oldenburg, the 9 year old Caspar 232 (Casper).
Gaudiano was first (called “hunting“ the Prize Stadte Region of Aachen, not valid for the ranking and qualifications), with a double clear round completed in 62.49 seconds.Behind the Italian was the British rider, Michael Whitaker with Valentin R (63.28) followed in third place by the Danish Andreas Schou riding the KWPN Allstar (64.99).
4° Soren Pedersen DEN Tailormade Cavetta
5° DANIELE AUGUSTO DA RIOS ITA BAEDEKER
6° Sandor Szasz HUN Luftikus Boy
7° Derin Demirsoy TUR Colino
8° Zuzana Zelinkova Filicita
9° Maria Madenova RUS Balsandra
10°JUAN CARLOS GARCIA ITA GITANO V.BERKENBROEKComplete list: http://results.aachen2015.de/show/7/event/32/competition/4/result/The individual European Championships for the team trials in the discipline of show jumping is scheduled for this afternoon at 14.00, Turkish Airline – Prize will have eight teams in the field: Germany, Slovenia, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Great Britain, France and Poland.Leading the way will be Germany, the first to take the field with Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Fibonacci 17, Christian Ahlmann and Taloubet Z, Ludger Beerbaum and Chiara 222 and Daniel Deusser with Cornet d’Amour.The British team are Michael Whitaker and Cassionato, Ben Maher with Diva II, the young Jessica Mendoza Apirit T and Joe Clee with Utamaro On Ecaussines.A little curiosity about this team, which comes to this meeting with two jumpers belonging to AES (Anglo European Studbook) that is trying out some high quality (in this studbook there is also John Whitaker, Molly Malone V Bertram Allen, Tripple X III Tiffany Foster and Blue Angel Kent Farrington, all of which have performed at the highest international levels).France are represented by Penelope Lèprevost e la BWP Flora de Mariposa, Simon Delestre con il Selle Française Ryan Des Hayettes, Kevin Staut sull’SBS Reveur de Hurtebise e Jerome Hurel on another French star, the 11-year-old stallion Quartz Rouge (Ultimo van Ter Moude).Complete list for the afternoon: http://media.resultsapi.net/competition/files/15/08/19/startlist-s1_nati…
Following this competition will be the Sparkassen Youngster Cup for the best seven year olds.There will be two Italians taking part: Lorenzo De Luca con Halifax van het Kluizebos (Heartbreaker) and Piergiorgio Bucci on Heartbreaker v. Achterhoe (Bentley van de Heffinck).Starting list: http://results.aachen2015.de/show/7/event/33/competition/5/startlist/www.aachen2015.dephoto credits: Aachen 2015/ Photographer