CSI 5* - An exceptional day for Peder Fredricson, double winner of the Global Champions League and the Longines Global Champions Tour of Ramatuelle/Saint-Tropez Grand Prix

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After his victory in the Global Champions League, as a member of the Valkenswaard United team, the Swedish rider did it again and won the Longines Global Champions Tour of Ramatuelle/Saint-Tropez Grand Prix, with his amazing Catch me Not S. They had already won the big class on Friday. A great weekend overall for the Swede...

The public present at the seventh edition of the Longines Athina Onassis Horse Show of Ramatuelle/Saint-Tropez, host of the third leg of the Global Champions League and the Longines Global Champions Tour, could expect to see some amazing sport this afternoon, with thirty-three competitors among the best combinations in the world, thirteen fences and sixteen jumps, standing at 1.60m, the required height for the Olympics, in a ring a stone’s throw from the mythical, Pampelonne Beach. And the event certainly lived up to their expectations! The clear rounds in the first round were few and far between on the course designed by France’s Grégory Bodo...but they made way for a really splendid jump-off with the crème de la crème competing! Six riders managed to qualify, providing top-notch performances!

The Netherlands’ Harrie Smolders on Monaco and Belgium’s Pieter Devos and Claire Z were first to go in this jump-off and each had one pole down. Hot on their heels, two Swedes, Peder Fredericson and Henrik von Eckerman, fought it out both finishing double clear. The former had the upper hand with Catch me Not S, finishing a second faster than the latter with King Edward. So would the victory be Swedish or French? Last to go, French riders Nicolas Delmotte on Urvoso du Roch and Simon Delestre on Hermès Ryan didn’t manage to unseat the Scandinavians, who finished in first and second place. Even so, Simon Delestre, the rider from Lorraine, finished on the third step of the podium, in all likelihood disappointed that he knocked down the course’s final fence, but extremely proud of his exceptional Hermès Ryan, who is still a great performer at sixteen-years-old.

The next event for the riders will be the Longines Global Champions Tour and the Global Champions League of Valkenswaard, next weekend. They will return to the French Riviera in a year’s time, for the eighth edition of the Longines Athina Onassis Horse Show.