WEG: Official Horse Deals Coverage Week 2

Make that two Bronze Medals for Sharon Jarvis and her 'Applewood Odorado' as they claimed number two in the Para Dressage Championship Grade III Freestyle this morning.

Australian Driving guru, Boyd Exell, originally from Bega on the South Coast of NSW came in to this competition as one of the red hot favourites. He did no disappoint and produced a world's best dressage score, 30.8 driving horses owned by Tamas Vince and Sarah Garnett. Just like Eventing the dressage percentage is converted in to penalty points, so Boyd;s score corresponds to a dressage percentage of 81.2. "The team were just doing it by themselves" said a delighted Exell. "it sometimes happens like that, but not very often".

There was a great deal of excitement following Boyd Exell's test. After the FEI Stewards checked the horses, Boyd was thrown to the mercy of the attendant press.

Driving for Sweden, Daniel Wurgler took seventh place after the dressage phase of the World Driving Championship with a score of 45.06.

Polish Driver, Piotr Mazurek pictured during the dressage phase of the World FEI Driving Championship is in 16th place after the dressage phase. The exciting Marathon (cross country) will be conducted tomorrow.

Some children were game enough to get a real feeling for riding a Cutting horse. The mechanical horse and cow moved as quickly as the real thing. Thankfully the children were all strapped in.

Robert Smith was the only rider from Great Britain to make the Individual Final. Riding 'Talan' by Concorde Robert incurred 12 penalties in the first round and did not compete in the second. Robert finished in 28th place.

McLain Ward jumped a superb double clear in the Individual Final riding the wonderful Darco mare, 'Sapphire'. However the damage had been done early and the best the Championship hopeful could do was seventh place.

French Silver Team Medalist, Olivier Guillon jumped four and clear in the Individual Final riding the Selle Francais gelding, 'Lord de Theize' by Donald Rouge II. They finished the 2010 Alltech WEG World Championships in 14th place.

Australia's Edwina Alexander and 'Cevo Itit du Chateau' sail beautifully over the huge Steamboat Oxer in the middle of the difficult 11acb in the first round of the Individual final. They lowered 11a in the first round and jumped clear in the second to finish the Championships in 13th place on a four round total of 15.38. It is a testimony to the success Edwina has had this year that she would be disappointed with that.

Chris Chugg and 'Vivant' make a big effort over the Steamboat Oxer at 11a. They jumped a very good four penalty first round, just putting a foot in the water, but Vivant looked to be tiring a little by the second round for two down. Chris and Vivant have had such an amazing season, but it has to be remembered that the horse is still quite green at this ultimate level of jumping. As they become more seasoned at the top they are able to reserve their energy. It has been a long show with a lot of jumping at the absolute highest level. Still 21st in the world is not bad for starters.

German Gold Member Team member, Meredith Michaels Beerbaum and 'Checkmate' are lining up the difficult oxer/oxer/vertical combination 11abc. Seconds after this photo was taken, they retired from the competition. The photo does not suggest the best outcome. Second in the world four years ago they had to settle for 30th in Kentucky.

Always beautiful to watch, the reigning World Champion, Jos Lansink, until tomorrow, jumped four and four in the Individual Final riding the talented, 'Cavalor Valentina Van't Heike' to finish the Championships in 17th place.

Japan's Taizo Sugitani had a super show, jumping four and clear in the Individual Final aboard 'Avenzio 3' by Animo to finish tenth in the World with a cumulative total of 13.40 penalties.

German team Gold Medalist, Janne Friederike Meyer's 'Cellagon Lambrasco' makes a lovely jump over the difficult and very tall Alltech vertical during the first round of the Individual final. They did not start in the second round and finished the Championships in 25th place.

Pius Schwizer from Switzerland is pictured over the Alltech vertical, jumped eight and four in the Individual Final aboard the nine year old Carvallo mare, 'Carlina' to finish the 2010 WEG Jumping Championships in 19th place with a four round total of 20.88.

Christian Santis from Chile jumped one of 13 clear rounds in the second round of the Individual Final riding 'Fanatico de Huincul'. They are pictured over the big (sic) Kentucky State Flag oxer at number 2 in the first round of the Individual Final. 13 of the 24 to start in the second round jumped clear.

World number one, Kevin Saut from France came to the Championships understandably at rather short odds to add the World title to his European crown earned last year at Windsor. He jumped a double clear riding the Corland mare, 'Silvana de Hus' to help France take the Silver Team medal, but a fence down in each round of the Individual Final saw them finish the Championships in 15th place with 15.81 penalties over the four rounds.

Riding for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abdulla Al Sharbartly is just relegated to fourth position solely on time. His horse, the mare, 'Seldana di Camplato' by Emillion has not lowered a fence in four tough rounds of jumping. It is the first time a Saudi rider has made the World Championship four way jump off.

The hopes of the Irish were resting on Billy Twomey's shoulders. He jumped a very costly eight in the first round of the Individual Final and then clear riding the lovely Tinka's Boy mare, 'Tinka's Serenade' to finish the Championships in 11th place.

Khaled Al Eid riding for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia jumped eight and one in the Individual Final aboard the sensational 13 year old Concorde stallion, 'Presley Boy' that seemed to do all the jumping in a thick snaffle bit on a loose rein. They finished in 12th place.

Beijing Individual Bronze Medalist, Rolf Goran Bengtsson from Sweden was another fancied to take the 2010 WEG Individual title. He went in to the second round of the Individual Final in third place having not lowered a fence to that point riding his Olympic partner, 'Ninja La Silla' by Guidam. However, a rail off the Steamboat Liverpool oxer in the second round saw the talented combination slip to sixth place.

Canada's John Pearce was keen to make it a pair of Canadians in the final four, but eight and one in the Individual Final aboard the Carano gelding, 'Chianto' saw him finish in 8th place. They are pictured over the Rolex Oxer. Rolex is the title sponsor of the 2010 Jumping Championships.

Riders et al walk the course for the second round of the Individual Final. AS expected Course Designer, Conrad Homfeld, Team Gold Medalist at the Los Angeles Games in 1984, set tracks that were super careful, big and technical. In true North American fashion Homfeld was looking for a horse that could be careful on a forward stride and rideable enough to come back after that to a short distance. It was a masterful effort to create a track that would not damage the slightly less experienced combinations, but tough enough to let the cream rise to the top. Having said that there was a hugely calorific abundance of "cream' in these jumping Championships.

French Silver Medal Team member, Penelope Leprevost is pictured over the beautiful, Blue Moon of Kentucky Oxer in the second round of the Individual Final riding the Carthago Z stallion, 'Mylord Carthago'. They jumped four and eight to finish the Championships in 22nd place.

Alvaro Miranda from Brazil with his "made in Australia" 'Ashleigh Drossel Dan'. Dan had a great Championships to finish in ninth place, jumping four and clear in the Individual Final and making it look easy.

German Team Gold Medalist, Casten Otto-Nagel was unlucky not to make the final four with Stal Moorhof's beautiful Corrado 1 mare, 'Corradina'. Just one fence down in the first round of the Individual Final, (11b) saw them finish in fifth place.

One of the crowd favourites, Brazilian, Rodrigo Pessoa has qualified in third place for the four way jump off tomorrow night riding, 'HH Rebozo'. The 1998 World Champion has his sights set on another title as tomorrow all four riders start from scratch.

Beijing Individual and Team Silver Medalist for Canada, Eric Lamaze has qualified in first place separated on time with just one penalty to add over the four rounds riding his wonderful Olympic partner, 'Hickstead' a stallion by Hamlet.

Belgium's Phillipe Le Jeune added just one time penalty over four Championship rounds riding the Nabab de Reve stallion, 'Vigo D' Arsouilles' to qualify in second place for the four way Championship ride off tomorrow night.