FEI World Cup dressage
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The 2024 FEI World Cup Dressage Finals will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 16-20 April. The grand prix starts at 1.15pm local time on Wednesday 17 April, with the freestyle at 5.15pm on Friday 19 April. Riyadh is two hours ahead of British Summer Time.
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The 2023 title went to Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, riding TSF Dalera BB. The pair scored over 90% for their freestyle test to become World Cup champions for the second year in row, having won the 2022 final in Leipzig, Germany. Denmark’s Nanna Merrald Skodborg was second on Blue Hors Zepter, and Germany’s Isabell Werth third on DSP Quantaz.
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Top riders all over the world compete for one of 18 coveted places at the World Cup Final in regional leagues: the Western European League, the Central European League, the Pacific League, the North American League, with the highest ranking non-league rider offered a place and three additional starting places also allocated. The title defender is given an automatic place in the following year’s final.
At the final, each combination rides the grand prix, which determines the starting order for the grand prix freestyle to music, from which the final result is decided.
The last British winner of the World Cup dressage title was Charlotte Dujardin, who won back-to-back titles with Valegro in 2014 and 2015.
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What’s it like to ride at a World Cup Final on a horse you’ve only competed once?
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What time will Britain’s Lottie Fry and the other top contenders ride in the Dressage World Cup Final tonight?
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‘It’s right to retire her at the top’: Isabell Werth on Weihegold’s retirement plans and her best memories of the brilliant black mare
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Jessica von Bredow-Werndl on flying form in opening round of the Dressage World Cup Final
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Lottie Fry lies second midway through the grand prix at the World Cup Dressage Final
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When will British riders be in action on day one of the World Cup Finals? *UPDATED*
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Battle of the titans: who will win this year’s Dressage World Cup Final?
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5 events to follow this week: Britain goes for glory in the World Cup Finals, the Grand National and more
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One rider carries British dressage hopes on World Cup Final debut
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Charlotte Dujardin shares her plans for Mount St John Freestyle
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World Cup finals cancelled owing to ongoing EHV-1 outbreak
“The loss of the World Cup finals for a second year is particularly devastating, especially for the qualified athletes”
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‘One of the greats’: Olympic dressage ‘icon’ dies aged 83
“We were extremely fortunate to have known her and worked with her. She was always positive, encouraging and honest and it was inspiring to learn from someone with her wealth of knowledge”
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‘He tries his heart out – I just hang on for the ride’: Canadian pair dominate in Wellington
“He tries his heart out for me every time we go down the centre line, and I just have to hang on for the ride”
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Meet Yvonne Losos de Muñiz — the Dominican Republic’s only Olympic rider
The Dominican Republic is not a nation that pops up often in equestrian sport, but Yvonne Losos de Muñiz is flying the flag for this small country in dressage. We find out more about her…
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Carl Hester: ‘It is not only galling and hurtful, but plain wrong’ *H&H Plus*
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Riders’ reflections on short grand prix to be used in World Cup series
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Throwback to Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro being crowned 2015 World Cup champions
On 19 April 2015, Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro scored 94.196% to successfully defend their World Cup title in Las Vegas. Today (15 April), is the day that the dressage World Cup final should have been getting underway before the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic, so we’re taking a trip down memory lane instead...
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Saudi Arabia to hold top equestrian finals for the first time *H&H Plus*
Saudi Arabia is the first Middle Eastern country to host a premier global equestrian championship, with news that Riyadh will stage the FEI World Cup showjumping and dressage finals in 2024
