Harrie Smolders wins the Shanghai leg of the LGCT.

The Shanghai leg of the Longines Global Champions Tour has been won by the Dutch rider Harrie Smolders with his bay mare Zangersheide Regina Z (Rex). After what was a very close contest, the Dutchman also has the satisfaction of taking home a very cool 160.000 euros in prize money.
Climbing onto the second step of the podium, we find Switzerland’s Pius Schwizer. The rider’s form doesn’t seem to have suffered too much despite losing his top horse Toulago and has already started to string together some impressive performances with his new mount, the 10 year-old bay mare Caretina de Joter (Caretino). Britain’s Michael Whitaker came in third place and is another one in good form with his 13 year-old sorrel Viking (Jacomar). The rest of the top-ten was as indicated below:
4th Kamal Abdullah Bahamdan KSA Nobless des Tess
5th Scott Brash GBR Hello M’Lady
6th Jessica Mendoza GBR Spirit T
7th Taizo Sugitani JPN Avenzio
8th Pieter Devos BEL Candy
9th LUCA MARIA MONETA ITA CONNERY
10th Shk. Ali Bin Khalid Al Thani QAT Vienna Olympic
Please see the following link for a full breakdown of the results: http://eventcontent.hippoonline.de/1025/sta_erg/04_ergENG.htm?style=longines
As for the overall standings after the latest stage of the tour, Scott Brash maintains his place at the summit with 105 points, but following close behind in second we find Portugal’s Luciana Diniz (95) while Pius Schwizer has climbed up to third place on 88 points. The top-ten rankings continue as follows:
4th Bassem Hassan Mohammed QAT 66
5th Henrik von Eckermann SWE 66
6th Pieter Devos BEL 64
7th Hans-Dieter Dreher GER 59
8th Shk. Ali Bin Khalid Al Thani QAT 58
9th Laura Kraut USA 58
10th Christian Ahlmann GER 56
Click here for more: http://eventcontent.hippoonline.de/1025/docs/LGCT_Shanghai_2015.pdf
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photo: Stefano Grasso/LGCT