FEI to discuss Moscow CDI3* results of Inessa Merkulova
The dressage community around the world has been roiled by the total score of 82.240 per cent for the winning combination in the Grand Prix and a personal best 76.780 per cent for the second placed Russian pair of Marina Aframeeva on Vosk, also owned by Inessa Merkulova. Their previous best Grand Prix score was 71.900 per cent in Moscow last September.
Inessa Merkulova on Mister X is stabled at New Century, also in Moscow, which is owned by Inessa and her husband.
Ghislain Fouarge of the Netherlands, a FEI 5* judge and former FEI Judge General, is known to give clinics in Russia and is seen in a photo dated Oct. 22-24, 2015 and located by dressage-news.com on the Internet site of New Century.The photo appears to show the judge directing Inessa on Mister X.
The FEI, the International Equestrian Federation, will discuss the results of the Moscow CDI3*Olympic qualifying event next week and a photograph emerged of Dutch Judge Ghislain Fouarge training Russian combination Inessa Merkulova on Mister X dated four months before he awarded the pair 82.600 per cent in the Grand Prix.
Under FEI rules, a judge is not permitted to train a horse and rider for a total of three days for nine months before judging a competition.
Among the combinations affected by the change in the rankings for the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with one week remaining to the deadline are: Poland’s Beata Stremler on Rubicon D; Ireland’s Judy Reynolds on Vancouver K and Belgium’s Jorinde Verwimp on Tiamo.
Author: dressage-news.com
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