The stage is set for the next round of the 2015 Longines Global Champions Tour in Cannes, which will see many of the world’s most talented show jumpers bring a host of the most successful and well known horses in the sport to this classic leg of the championship series.
For the first of the French Grand Prix this 2015 season, Edwina Tops-Alexander brings the talented and quick Lintea Tequila to the stunning Riviera show ground, and their strong partnership will certainly put them in the spot-light as the competition battle hots up.
The combinations will compete in the 75x55m sand arena and the courses for all the 5* competitions during the weekend will be designed by Uliano Vezzabi who will be setting his characteristically challenging and technical tests for the world’s best horses and riders.
Scott Brash will ride two of his mares, Hello Annie and Hello M’Lady and will undoubtably be looking to reclaim the Longines Global Champions Tour rankings top spot. Current leader Luciana Diniz will be bringing Grand Prix winning Winningmood, along with Lennox – a clear sign of her intentions to hold onto the lead with this high calibre partnership – and Sweden’s Rolf-Göran Bengtsson will team up once again with his 16 year old stallion, Casall Ask as part of his campaign to take the championship crown after coming so close in previous seasons.
The always expressive Quickly de Kreisker will be in attendance with Morocco’s Abdelkebir Ouaddar, and looking to gain more points in the championship. Britain’s Ben Maher will ride Cella, another potential challenger for the top Grand Prix podium spots. One to watch will be Marta Ortega Perez as she tests her partnership with the recently acquired Zigali P S, formally ridden by Eric Lamaze. With other challengers such as Oh d’Eole, AD Rahmannshof’s Bogeno, Status, Nice Stephanie, Taloubet Z and Cornet’s Cristallo all in attendance, and top international riders from Egypt, Czech Republic, El Salvador and throughout the world, it’s set to be a hot battle for the crown of Cannes.
RIDERS LIST CSI5* LGCT CANNES
Australia
Julia Hargreaves
Edwina Tops-Alexander
Austria
Miklos Tassilo Csillaghy
Azerbaijan
Jamal Rahimov
Belgium
Constant Van Paesschen
Gregory Wathelet
Brazil
Doda de Miranda
Egypt
Karim El Zoghby
El Salvador
José Alfredo Hernández Ortega
France
Roger-Yves Bost
Simon Delestre
Pénélope Leprevost
Kevin Staut
Germany
Christian Ahlmann
Daniel Deusser
Marco Kutscher
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum
Greece
Athina Onassis de Miranda
Ireland
Bertram Allen
Darragh Kenny
Denis Lynch
Italy
Emanuele Gaudiano
Morocco
Abdelkebir Ouaddar
Netherlands
Gerco Schröder
Maikel van der Vleuten
Portugal
Luciana Diniz
Qatar
Hamad Ali Mohamed A Al Attiyah
Ali Yousef Al Rumaihi
Sheikh Ali Bin Khalid Al Thani
Bassem Hassan Mohammed
Saudi Arabia
Abdulrahman Al Rajhi
Kamal Bahamdam
Spain
Sergio Alvarez Moya
Pilar Lucrecia Cordon
Marta Ortega Perez
Sweden
Rolf-Göran Bengtsson
Henrik von Eckermann
Switzerland
Christina Liebherr
Jane Richard Philips
Pius Schwizer
United Kingdom
Scott Brash
Ben Maher
John Whitaker
United States
Lauren Hough
Paris Sellon
Jessica Springsteen
From 17 to 20 September the Longines Global Champions Tour is coming to Vienna again! Tickets for the VIENNA MASTERS are already available on the Eventwebsite.
Source: Press release LGCT
