Mexiko-City: Ludger Beerbaum 再次获胜

Mexico City (fn-press). Six weeks after their victory in the Global Champions Tour stage in Doha (Qatar), Ludger Beerbaum (Riesenbeck) and the mare Mila also won in Mexico City. The jump-off turned into a fight for fractions of a second, in which Beerbaum was able to put Ireland's Denis Lynch in second place with a wafer-thin lead.

Ludger Beerbaum could hardly believe it. As the last starter in the jump-off of the Grand Prix, evaluation test of the Global Champions Tour, he steered ten-year-old Mila, daughter of Monte Bellini from the Oldenburg International Breeding Association, through the course. The Irishman Denis Lynch, who lives in the Netherlands, had presented a lightning-fast round with the Belgian gelding Brooklyn Heights. "I really didn't think I could beat this time, but in the end we were five hundredths of a second faster, I'm really excited," said Beerbaum. He was rewarded with prize money of 100,000 euros for his victory in 44.51 seconds.

Only six of the 35 couples had reached the jump-off after a clear round. Behind Lynch, who needed 44.56 seconds with the Nabab de Reve son, was his compatriot Michael Duffy in the saddle of the Zangersheide gelding Zilton Z. These two also shot clean in 44.59 seconds, leaving a total of just eight-hundredths of a second between the winner and third-place finisher. Since Beerbaum had already qualified for the annual final of the play-offs in Prague in November with his victory in Doha, Denis Lynch moved up and thus also bought the ticket for the highly remunerated "Super Grand Prix".

The other German starters missed the jump-off, but showed good performances with only four penalties each in the round. Jens Baackmann (Münster) with Caprice (4/78.27) claimed tenth place, eleventh was Beerbaum's employee Christian Kukuk (4/78.47), and Katrin Eckermann (Sassenberg) came in twelfth with the Westphalian mare Cala Mandia a. She won the Global Tour stage in Miami Beach with the Capistrano daughter. Now the series is leaving the distant countries and will be continued in Europe. The next stage takes the riders to Madrid in mid-May. hen