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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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Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro win World Cup final grand prix
Britain's dressage superstars got their World Cup final campaign off to an excellent start with more than 85% in the grand prix
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40 of the world's top sport horses fly to Las Vegas [VIDEO]
What does it take to get 40 of the world's top sport horses, including dressage superstar Valegro, onto a plane for the FEI World Cup finals in Las Vegas?
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Can anyone beat Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro in Las Vegas?
Find out who the current World, Olympic and European champions will be up against when they defend their Reem Acra FEI World Cup title in Las Vegas next month
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Charlotte Dujardin fights jet-lag to net another impressive victory [VIDEO]
The world's leading dressage partnership came close to beating their own freestyle world record when they performed in Amsterdam
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Shock winner of bid to host eventing Euros
A venue that has been criticised in the past for its lack of preparedness is awarded the European eventing championships
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World number one gets World Cup wildcard
British dressage superstars Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro have been offered a wildcard entry for the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Final
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Helen Langehanenberg wins Reem Acra FEI World Cup dressage final
The German rider produced a personal best with Damon Hill to claim the title from former World Cup champion Adelinde Cornelissen
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Controversy at FEI World Cup dressage final
Germany's Helen Langehanenberg has won the first grand prix at the FEI Reem Acra World Cup final in Gothenburg, but riders have made a formal protest about the arena dressing
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Valegro joins the 80% elite with Olympia win
It was a night to remember for the Brits in the grand prix dressage qualifier at Olympia
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Martin Collins provides footing for FEI World Cup Finals at Leipzig
The competition is the first time four equestrian World Cup finals — showjumping, dressage, driving and vaulting — will be staged at the same event
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Isabell Werth wins World Cup dressage qualifier at Odense
Isabell Werth has won the opening leg of the 2010/11 World Cup dressage series at Odense, Denmark, while British rider Anna Ross Davies took 12th place with Pegasus MK
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Anky van Grunsven to miss World Cup dressage final
Nine-times World Cup dressage champion Anky van Grunsven has not qualified for this year’s final and neither have any British riders
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Rolex FEI 2009 World Cup finals video clips
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Steffen Peters is Rolex FEI world cup dressage champion
America's Steffen Peters triumphed in Las Vegas beating Isabell Werth and Anky van Grunsven into second and third place respectively
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America heads affairs at Rolex FEI dressage world cup finals
Steffen Peters beat Anky van Grusven into second place in the grand prix at the Rolex FEO World Cup final in Las Vegas
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Dutch dressage star to miss World Cup Finals
Adelinde Cornelissen has withdrawn her dressage superstar Parzival from the World Cup final in Las Vegas due to tendon injury
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Top riders reveal their Las Vegas World Cup hopes
World Cup favourites Isabel Werth and Meredith Michaels Beerbaum reflect on their chances as they prepare for competition in Las Vegas
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Isabell Werth wins first leg of FEI World Cup dressage
The 2008/2009 World Cup dressage series kicked off in Denmark at the weekend with a win for Isabell Werth, ahead of Anky van Grusven
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DVD review: FEI World Cup Dressage Final 2008
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