Show Jumping World Cup Finals Daily Report by Carol Dean-Porter

April 20, 2000

Two in a row World Cup Champion (98 & 99) Rodrigo Pessoa and Gandini Baloubet de Rouet took the lead in the first phase of the World Cup Finals. 

This was a speed class, contested over 12 numbered obstacles of 15 jumping efforts. The scoring system was faults converted to seconds, with each rail down adding 4 seconds to the time and the first two refusals only adding the time actually taken.

Thirty nine started the course, with 5 jumping clear rounds for no penalty seconds added to their final time.

Here are the scores:

Dick Carvin/Sam Malone/USA/98.43
VIrtual Village It's Otto/Geoff Billington/GBR/70.94
Sports Yai Elastique/Antonio Chedraui Eguia/Mex/67.95
Le Madro/Mario Deslaurier/Canada/59.00
Tinka's Boy/Markus Fuchs/Sui/60.87
Marco/Manuel Guillermo Torres/Col/83.27
Warren 004/Lutz Gripshover/Ger/73.94
Hidden Creek's Alvaretto/Margie Goldstein-Engle/USA/64.64
Ireach Iceberg/Carry Huits In 'T Veld/Ned/70.43
Aktiv/Misti Cassar/USA/78.97
Traxdata Amber du Montois/Peter Charles/Ire/62.64
Lancier 4/Jimmy Torano/USA/67.41
Chopin 045/Ralf Schneider/Ger/60.10
Loro Piana Las Vegas 116/Gianni Govoni/ITA/59.31
Hennes & Mauritz Corrmint/Malin Baryard/Swe/63.86
Victor/Geraldo Gomes De Lemos/Bra/79.7
Arnica de la Barre/Alison Firestone/USA/Elim
Catch 22/Ainsley Vince/Canada/76.85
Maloubet/Hap Hansen/USA/71.63
Deichgrefin/Carsten-Otto Nagel/Ger/61.67
Pozitano/Beat Mandli/Sui/61.26
Inter Access de Sjiem/Jeroen Dubbeldam/Ned/62.82
Ilian/Schuyler Riley/USA/60.84
Lux Z/Jerry Smit/ITA/61.3
Ivar/Ian Millar/Canada/65.72
RBG Otterongo/Ludo Philippaerts/Bel/60.03
Marco/Megan Johnstone/USA/61.31
Southshore/Richard Spooner/USA/62.44
Dobel's Padarco/Otto Becker/Ger/62.05
Equest Carnute/Thomas Velin/Den/73.79
Virtual Village Steps Helsinki/John Whitaker/GBR/73.79
Clover Leaf/Leslie Burr-Howard/USA/73.59
Goldfever/Ludgar Beerbaum/Ger/62.31
Oh Star/Todd Minikus/USA/58.81
Another Flood/Gavin Chester/AUS/73.08
Silwa Little Gun/Helena Weinberg/Ger/70.67
Gandini Baloubet du Rouet/Rodrigo Pessoa/Brazil/56.47
Mania Jolly/Taizo Sugitani/JPN/67.89
Royal Discovery/Samantha McIntosh/Bul/79.62

The top three finishers were:

Rodrigo Pessoa
Todd Minikus
Mario Deslauriers

The scoring system is unique. The winner of today's class gets one more point than the total number of starters. So Rodrigo Pessoa starts tomorrow with 40 points. The rest get points in relation to where they finish, so Todd Minikus receives 38 and so on down the line.

Tomorrow's class is a jump-off class and the points from the speed phase will be added together with points from the second phase to determine the top combinations eligible for the final to be held on Sunday.

For the final, points are converted to faults and divided in half....so the leader enters the final round with a clean score, and the others with varying amounts of penalties.