By Jo de Roo
Photography: © Sportfot
The new champions of the WBCYH were duly crowned in Lanaken with celebrations for the various medal winners of the age-group classes for five-, six-, and seven-year-old horses representing a variety of studbooks and bloodlines.
In terms of studbooks, Irish Sport Horse and Belgian Warmblood each won two two of the nine medals, with the Irish and German riders also being the most successful overall. For the Irish camp, Michael Pender and Niamh McEvoy won gold, Michael Duffy bronze. The six-yeaold podium was an all-German affair dominated by girl power: Katrin Eckermann winning gold and bronze, and Kendra Claricia Brinkop silver.
There was a total of 134 finalists: 54 five-year-olds, 40 six-year-olds, and 40 seven-year-olds, and an analysis of the sires yields the following results: Comme il faut NRW was the main supplier with eight offspring, followed by Emerald van’t Ruytershof (seven), Diamant de Semilly (five), Dominator 2000 Z (four). Five stallions each had three finalists: Aganix du Seigneur, Carrera VDL, Cornet Obolensky/ex Windows van het Costersveld, Nixon van ‘t Meulenhof, and Ogano Sitte.
Gold for 5yo Orange de Baugy
Of the 54 five-year-old showjumpers qualified for the final, 20 left the arena with zero faults and within the time allowed. Six of the 20 riders were from the host nation, Belgium, with five from the Emerald Isle, Ireland. In the jump-off, nine combinations maintained their clean slate, with rising Irish star Niamh McEvoy (20) becoming world champion riding Orange de Baugy.
Orange de Baugy was bred by Leneke Geertzema who successfully combined Dominator 2000 Z with the Selle Français mare Adine (Barbarian - Nadine des Liteaux x Lux Z). Through Adine, Orange de Baugy belongs to the famous Selle Français bloodline number 7, supported by foundation dam Nadine (1935) by Issu d’Amblie. A series of approved and highly influential stallions belong to this dam line, such as ‘chef de race’ Uriel, Arlequin, Sheyenne de Baugy, Furiel de Baugy, Veneur de Baugy, Aiglon Rouge, Oscar de Revel, and Sioux de Baugy. The most famous representative of this lineage is, however, Quidam de Revel, multi Grand Prix winner, team bronze, and fourth individually at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games.
“Orange de Baugy is very good. Unbelievable. She is the best five-year-old horse I have ever ridden. She is so brave and careful. I knew before I went in that I could go very quick because of how careful she is,” Niamh said. Referring to her team, she continued by saying, “I can’t thank them enough. Greg Broderick gave me so many opportunities. The whole team worked so hard. It’s so amazing when you get a result like this.”
What are the qualities of Orange de Baugy in three words? “Special, careful, and scopey.” What are the future plans for your horse? “We have only had her for three weeks, so we will give her a nice break. I hope we can compete with her again next year in Lanaken,” Niamh concluded. It was success for the second year runnind for Niamh, who won silver in the five-year-old division of Lanaken last year riding Boleybawn Alvaro... To read the complete article you need to be a subscriber
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