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WEG - Edwina Tops-Alexander through to Top 30

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Australia’s Edwina Tops-Alexander remains alive in the individual jumping competition at the FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 after jumping clear during today’s third round.

The captain of the Australian Jumping team and her horse Ego Van Orti added two time penalties to their score and they progress to the round of 30 after finishing the third day in 23rd position with a combined score of 8.43. US rider Beezie Madden (Cortes ‘C’) is the leader on 0.16 penalty.

Tops-Alexander has been consistent throughout the three phases of competition only picking up time penalties along the way.

“I’m very happy with the way my horse jumped, he’s in unbelievable shape. He’s flying over the jumps. Yesterday’s time fault cost me a lot already, yesterday I was on the time but I just made one too many down one line. I probably should have been more focused, I was more thinking about trying to jump a clear, which is always good to do but you have to also think about the time. I could accept one but two is not great,”

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Edwina Tops-Alexander and Ego Van Orti		  

Australia’s Jamie Kermond was also in action in the round of 50 and he and his horse Quite Cassini picked up five faults which sees them end their WEG campaign in 41st position.   Kermond had hoped to make it progress to Saturday’s round of 30 however the xx year old was still pleased with his and his horse’s performance at these Games.

“I thought Quite Cassini and I put on a good show, we definitely weren’t out of our depth. With a little bit of luck we could have been a bit higher up but unfortunately we had a cheap rail on the first and second day. But I’m extremely happy with the result. I was really happy with today. I was happy with the first two days, I was a bit too nervous on the first day which is a little disappointing. But you can’t help nerves.
I thought I rode the plan really well. I know the horse’s stride quite well now, I just made one little mistake into the last where I was a fraction deep. But I was really happy with how I rode today. He’s a big horse and he has a big stride."

Riders progressing to the top 30 now have a rest day before taking to the arena again on Saturday. At the end of this round only the top four riders will progress.

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