Thanks for posting these!
I haven’t seen all the rides yet, but I was pretty disappointed in the scores. I’m not a judge or anything, but I thought that Stephan’s ride was definitely better than Anky’s or Isabel’s- his horse seemed more flowing and fluid throughout, his canter pirouettes were better (not perfect, but not clearly 4-beat like both AvGs & IWs), I didn’t think that Anky’s test was any more difficult (she did WAY less p/p, hardly any it seemed like). Oh, AND she didn’t even halt on the way out, or salute!:eek:
Someone said that at least one judge gave Anky a 9 for the rider coefficient?:eek: She was leaning way back throughout the test, and was clearly leaning on her horse at times.
And Isabel got almost 2 percentage points higher than SP, despite horrible piaffe throughout her test, and one major outburst of resistance? Where was she so much better than him to make up for that?
Ok, so even assuming that the judges are seeing things I’m not, and her test was better overall. 6 percentage points better than SPs?:eek:
I’m sorry, but when it came to Anky and Isabell, the judging seemed like a joke:mad: