Anky van Grunsven wins WDM Grand Prix 09-07-2010
FALSTERBO/Sweden July 8 - Anky van Grunsven, the most successful rider at the Exquis World Dressage Masters, on Thursday rode a newly recovered IPS Painted Black to victory in the Grand Prix of the first 100,000 € CDI5* competitions staged by the Falsterbo Horse Show.
Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven, one of Sweden's most popular dressage stars, gave the big crowd that turned out to support the event good cause to aplaud even more enthusiastically than they did for all the riders when she and the 11-year-old Favourit turned in a performance that placed them second.
Anky and the 13 year-old stallion IPS Painted Black was the unanimous choice by the judges for first place in the Nürnberger Versicherungsgruppen Grand Prix presented by Agria with a score of 75,234% with Tinne and Favourit marks of 71,957%. Germany's Anja Plönzke and Le Mont d'Or, competing in their fourth WDM CDI5* event so far this year - Palm Beach in the USA, Munich/Germany and Cannes/France in addition to Falsterbo - was third with 68,723%.
