{"id":14936,"date":"2019-10-28T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpingamsterdam.nl\/?p=14936"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:05:31","slug":"whitaker-clinches-first-ever-world-cup-win-in-nail-biter-at-helsinki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/whitaker-clinches-first-ever-world-cup-win-in-nail-biter-at-helsinki\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITAKER CLINCHES FIRST-EVER WORLD CUP WIN IN NAIL-BITER AT HELSINKI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Britain\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Robert Whitaker posted a sensational victory in the second leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ 2019\/2020 Western European League at Helsinki in Finland today with his long-time ride, Catwalk IV. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a competition that had spectators on the edges of their seats from start to finish, the pair pinned Spain\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Sergio Alvarez Moya and his super-talented young horse Jet Run into second place while Belgium\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Celine Schoonbroodt de Azevedo (Cheppetta) and Germany\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Christian Kukuk (Quintino) lined up in third and fourth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not often that a single fence plays such a major role in the outcome of any competition, but today the big blue wall presented by Brazilian course designer, Guilherme Jorge, proved pivotal. The tenth obstacle on the 13-fence track, it was built on a curving line and approached off a tight left-hand turn, and in both rounds it put paid to the chances of some of the best horse-and-rider combinations in the business. Not the 36-year-old Briton and his feisty 16-year-old gelding however. They took it on with gusto both times out to give Whitaker a career-defining first-ever World Cup win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The close confines of the Ice Hall in Helsinki wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be to every horse\u00e2\u0080\u0099s liking, but Catwalk, it seems, is in his element there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u0080\u009cHe just likes arenas like this \u00e2\u0080\u0093 he has a lot of power and he can easily jump big fences off a turn, although today to be honest he was unbelievable!\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/em>
Robert Whitaker (GBR)<\/em>
Said the son of the legendary John Whitaker who was a back-to-back winner of the coveted FEI World Cup™ trophy with the great Milton back in 1990 and 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Catwalk IV (Robert Whitaker) GBR 0\/0 38.13
2. Jet Run (Sergio Alvarez Moya) ESP 0\/0 39.81
3. Chepetta (Celine Schoonbroodt de Azevedo) BEL 0\/0 40.09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FULL RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: FEI
Photo: FEI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Robert Whitaker posted a sensational victory in the second leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ 2019\/2020 Western European League at Helsinki in Finland today with his long-time ride, Catwalk IV. \u00a0 In a competition that had spectators on the edges of their seats from start to finish, the pair pinned Spain\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Sergio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14937,"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14936\/revisions\/14937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jumpingamsterdam.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}