... Russian team comer Tatyana Kosterina and her 9-year old Hanoverian mare Diavolessa VA (by Don Frederico x Londonderry) impressed

and became her country's strongest scoring rider with a 70.686% and 24th place. The black mare is a very elegant femine looking horse with a lovely piaffe and passage. The young Grand Prix horse still needs to get straighter in the body in the tempi changes and often became behind the vertical, but there is much potential there. Kosterina had been the best scoring Russian this 2017 show season but was sorted as third rider going for her team in Gothenburg.

Russia's Inessa Merkulova was able to execute a more focused test on her brilliant Mister X and she kept her hands more quiet, but overall the horse dropped too much on the forehand and the tempi changes remain a problem. The piaffe-passage was stellar though. The combination finished the ride on 70.714% but they got eliminated at the tack inspection as the horse had blood in the mouth...

From Eurodressage: http://www.eurodressage.com/equestrian/2017/08/25/photo-report-past-peak-performance-grand-prix-rides-2017-european-dressage-championships

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