Luxembourgish show jumper collected top positions
Although we won’t see him at the World Championships in Aachen, which are set to begin this week, Victor Bettendorf has recently been making waves elsewhere. At the end of July, he won two different 1.45m jumping classes at a CSI 3* tournament in Royan, France, riding Tajmahal Du Houlbec and Extasia Bella By Classic. He won the jump-off of the first class at this height in 39.03 seconds, ahead of the French riders Felix Jarry (Komet Des, 40.73) and Loïc Michelon (Secret Love, 41.16). He secured his second victory a day later in 63.53 seconds. Second place went to Nicolas Layec (France, Collcream Berence, 64.64), and third place to Pierre Imbert (France, Bilbao des Tus, 65.62).
At the following event in Dinard (France), he achieved a second place with the aforementioned “Extasia” – also over 1.45 meters, but this was a CSI 5* two-phase jumping competition, which was won by Hendrik von Eckermann from Swedeb and Glamour Girl (32.63 seconds) and in which Gudrun Patteet (Belgium) finished third on Sea Coast Chica (34.28 seconds). He also finished fourth in a 1.35-meter class for young horses with Jumbo de la Roque.
Photos © Ljuba Buzzola/LGCT London
The Global Champions Tour continued in London over the weekend of August 7th to 9th, the next stop on the tour. With his team “Madrid in Motion,” he and Maikel van der Vleuten from the Netherlands finished 5th out of a total of seventeen participating teams in the Global Champions League.
The most outstanding performance in the English capital was the second place achieved by the world number 39 on Encore toi du Linon over 1.50 meters. This class at the CSI 5* tournament was won by Briton Scott Brash on Hello Jefferson, who clocked a time of 40.11 seconds in the jump-off. The Bettendorf-Encore toi du Linon pair followed extremely closely behind (40.30), while third place went to France’s Lara Tryba and Chageorge (43.39). A total of thirteen riders qualified for the jump-off in that class.
Translated from German by AI and adjusted by Paul Krier. Original article will also be published in the “Lëtzebuerger Bauer” weekly newspaper.
