61 970 spectators. This is how many that visited this years edition of  Falsterbo Horse Show.

– This shows that the equestrian sports stands tall and that the interest for it is very broad, says Jana Wannius

Swedish equestrian sport in general has had some formidable decades in terms of popularity, and this is really clear when it comes to Falsterbo Horse Show. The event is the only equestrian event that has increased for a full decade in a row. The positive audience trend puts the horse show as the number one of all the Swedish summer events ; a title that former belonged to Båstad Tennis.
– It feels amazing with the growing interest. It also means that we can continue to offer equestrian sport and show in absolute world-class standard, year after year. Evidently, more and more people are appreciating this, says Jana.

Next year Falsterbo Horse Show will be held July 6th to 14th.

I dagens 150-hoppning på tid, Kopparbergs Trophy, visade sig till slut franska ryttarinnan Pénélope Leveprost, med Nice Stephanie, vara det snabbaste felfria ekipaget.
Pénélope Leveprost var mer än tre sekunder snabbare än andraplacerade Henrik von Eckermann, med Grace 319. Imponerande – inte minst med tanke på att det var hela 63 startande i klassen.

Övriga ryttare som fick rida ärevarv var Christina Liebherr, Schweiz, med LB Con Grazia; Martin Fuchs, Schweiz, med Conte Della Caccia; Jerome Hurel, Frankrike, med Premier De Falaise och Jeroen Dubbeldam, Nederländerna, med Bmc Utascha Sfn.

Kopparbergs Trophy var även en kvalklass för morgondagens Longines Falsterbo Grand Prix.

Finally! This year it was premiere of para dressage at Falsterbo Horse Show.

Para dressage or dressage for riders with disabilities is a form of competition that is competed on various levels. In Level 1, the rider can choose either walk or walk and trot. In level 2, the major part of the program is done in walk but the parts of the program that is in trot are a little bit longer and more challenging. In Level 3 the program contains both walk, trot and canter and the program represents a standard of LC (L-Dressage). In Level 4 all gaits are ridden and it also includes movements such as shoulder in, travere and counter canter.

Liselotte Sharff Rose Hart, Denmark, with Priors Lady Rawage was a clear winner in this premiere; she rode a Level 1 program and received 70.500 percent.
Number two was Simon Åhlstad, Solna FK, with Piquet rode Level 3 and got 69,000%.

The FEI Nations Cup in Falsterbo became without doubt the most exciting competition of the times.  After two rounds were done and the 8 teams had had their 4 riders fighting for their nation; Great Britain, France and Sweden shared the exact same points.

This ment a jump-off between these three teams. Due to the rules of FEI Nations Cup only one rider will ride.
For this jump-off the riders that had done two clear rounds were chosen; William Funnell – Billy Angelo (GBR), Jens Fredricson – Lunatic (SWE) and  Jerome Hurel –  Ohm De Ponthual (FRA).
It was a thrill til the last rider, and then it stood clear thath the victory went to Sweden – thanks to Jens, who were fast and furious.

– It takes a ”lunatic” to ride Lunatic, Jens said with a foxy smile afterwords; -And I think I proved that, he laughed.

Falsterbo Horse Show has, during the last years, been opening up it´s doors to the social media doors and with the possibilities that comes with it. Connecting to our network and audience via YouTube, Facebook  Twitter has really been paying of.  Now we are nominated in category 23. FEI Group II – North-West Europe in the global competition Equestrian Social Media Awards. Vote for us!

http://www.equestriansocialmediaawards.com/voting

You can vote for us until 10th of February 2012.