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 Briar wins Globen!          December 2007

 

              For the fifth time, Jan Brink and Briar 899 attained double victory

            at the World Cup competitions in Globen, which resulted in the

            second winner car in a week. First they won the preliminary Grand

            Prix, and then the Kür Finals, though it was very close at the top.

            “Briar knows exactly how to behave when it comes to it, from

             the first halt on the arena, to the prize award giving, where he wants

             to stand furthest upfront,” a pleased Jan Brink explains.

 

            “Briar has probably done more the 100 Grand Prix competitions, he

            continues. Now I am going to take it a little easier with him, Briar

            has just done two World Cup competitions in a row, firstly in Odense

            last weekend and then in Globen. It is important that Briar stays in

            shape and keeps up his high spirits to the Olympic Games, so I will

            not be doing that many competitions for the next while.”

 

 

 

 

         

 

     Briar second in Odense     December 2007

 

 

              Jan Brink and Briar 899 came in second at the premier of the World

            Cup season in Odense, Denmark. It started with a second placement in

            the Grand Prix, just a few hundredths after the world champion

            Isabell Werth. Then it continued in the final, where Jan once again

            gave her a real match and then it was only a matter of seven pathetic

            hundredths. “I am close on her heels. Now it is just a matter of staying there

            and then at the right time just snap and pass her. We had a small

            tact mistake that was all. Briar has really behaved exemplary,” said

            a very proud and pleased Jan Brink.

            “We have competed internationally in Grand Prix for nine years now,

            been at the top during the last couple of years and attended seven

            World Cup Finals. He is an amazing horse, a real lifetime friend,”

            Jan continues. “This season the big goal is the Olympic Games and my plan is to

            ride approximately one competition a month until then. The World Cup

            competitions are though well planned in the calendar and the finals

            in s-Hertogenbosch is close, so if everything goes well and Briar

            feels fit, then I will try ride to the World Cup,” Jan concludes.

 

          FEI World Cup Dressage Grand Prix Kür: 1) Isabell Werth, Germany,

            Warum Nicht 79,550 2) Jan Brink, Sweden, Briar 78,800 3) Andreas

            Helgstrand, Denmark, Gredstedgaards Casmir 77,150