At
the end of the First day of Competition Tuesday, August 22,
in the FEI World Team
Dressage Championship and Individual Qualifying Competition, the
standings were
as follows: 1.
Heike Kemmer (GER),
Bonaparte - 75.792
HANN
G /Chestnut/1993 /Bon Bonaparte/Consul 2.
Imke Schellekens-Bartles (NED), Sunrise - 71.542
HANN
dark Bay 1994 Singular Joter
3. Tinne Vilhelmson (SWE), Solos Carex
- 70.333
DWBG /Bay/1993 /Castro/Lagano
4. Bernadette Pujals (MEX),
Vincent - 69.792
HANN S /Chestnut/1992 /Weltmeyer/Absatz
5. Guenter
Seidel (USA) Aragon - 69.583
BAYG /Grey/1992
/Abydos/Lorenz
owned by Richard Brown and Jane Brown (Gunther
and Argon
are pictured at the right at the Piaffe.)
6.
Hubertus Schmidt (GER) Wansuela
Suerte - 69.28
HANN M /Chestnut/1993 /Warkant/Wachmann I
7. Laurens van Lieren (NED), Hexagon´s Ollright -
KWPN G
/Chestnut/1996 /Rubiquil/El Corona
Gunther
Seidel said, "I just hope the score was good enough for the team. We have
very strong people going tomorrow, so I am optimistic for the team." (Quote
thanks to Sara C. Schwartz of The Horse of Delaware Valley.) 
(Gunther
and Aragon are pictured at the left leaving the final Warm Up Ring before entering
the competition arena.)
Team
Standings After the First Day:
1.
Germany - 145.0
2. The Netherlands - 140.042
3. Great Britain - 134.917
4.
USA - 134.042
5. Switzerland - 133.0
6. Denmark
- 132.541 * * * * * As
we were walking back from lunch
we
saw Phillip Dutton, a member of the Australian Eventing Team,
working in an
Eventing warm up ring with the Australian Coach.
Phillip and Connaught are
pictured below. 
*
* * * * At the lunch
break on Tuesday, August 22, the first day the Dressage FEI World Team Dressage
Championship and Individual Qualifying Competition, the standings looked like
this: 1.
Hubertus Schmidt (GER), Wansuela Suerte - 69.208
2. Laurens Van Lieren (NED)
Hexagon's Ollright - 68.500 (Laurens and Hexagon's Ollright are pictured
at the right at the piaffe.)
3. Laura Bechtolsheimer (GBR), Cinderella
- 66.667 9. Lesley
Morse (USA), Tip
Top 962 - 64.25
There
was a huge to do at the Press Conference regarding the fact that a German
Steward thought that Laurens Van Lieren (NED) was wearing a PRIVATE SPONSOR'S
LOGO. Only a TEAM SPONSOR'S LOGO is allowed. Laurens was sent back
to the stable to change his saddle pad and missed 15 minutes of his warm up time
hence (probably) effecting his score. It transpired that the saddle pad he had
been wearing WAS the logo of a TEAM SPONSOR. The bottom line is that the
whole fracas was caused by the Steward's mistake. | 