With both a win and a fifth place already under her belt since Saturday, the Antrim-born rider brought out her top horse, the 12 year- old bay mare for today’s keynote event at the German show, and with a flawless clear round in the 12 horse jump- off left no doubt about her determination to stay at the front end of
the world rankings, leaving German contender Marcus Ehning almost a full second adrift on time.
Kurten collected not just valuable World Cup points for her showing today, but also a prize purse of just over 21,000 euro.
Ireland’s Denis Lynch, who like Kurten is now German-based, finished 10th in the Grand Prix on , a single fence down in the jump- off denying him a greater share of the prize money.
SHOW JUMPING RESULTS: CSI-W LEIPZIG GERMANY 17-20 JANUARY 2008
Rolex FEI World Cup™, presented by Sparkasse
Sparkassen-Cup – GRAND PRIX OF LEIPZIG
FEI World Cup International Jumping
Table A Competition with One Jump-Off
FEI Art. 238.2.2 1m55
Sunday January 20, 2007
1) Castle Forbes Libertina; Jessica Kurten (IRL) Faults 0.00/0.00 Time 33.60
2) Sandro Boy; Marcus Ehning (GER) Faults 0.00/0.00 Time 34.42
3) Ninja La Silla; Rolf-Goran Bengtsson (SWE) Faults 0.00/0.00 Time 34.43
10) Lantinus; Denis Lynch (IRL) Faults 0.00/4.00 Time 35.26
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