American Owned PRE Wins Spanish Dressage Nationals

[caption id="attachment_3615" align="aligncenter" width="236" caption="Naesgaard, Daniel Martin, Garcia Mena"][/caption] Jose Daniel Martin Dockx and Kimberly van Kampen' Boyer’s Spanish Stallion Grandioso won the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix Dressage Championships held at Villafranca near Madrid, Spain, on October 7-9th 2011 Martin-Dockx, who is trained by renowned Spanish team coach Jan Bemelmans, captured his first Spanish National Grand Prix title of his career  Martin-Dockx has only been riding Hampton Green Farm's 12-year old PRE stallion Grandioso by Adelante x Sevillano IX x Nevado IX since February 2011, taking over the ride from a recuperating US Olympian Courtney King-Dye The new Spanish partnership has been growing steadily and at the national championships they finished second in the Grand Prix 68,255% and won the Special 68,792% and freestyle 74,300% taking the overall lead with 211,347% points [caption id="attachment_3616" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Daniel Martin & GRANDIOSO"][/caption] "I am thrilled and, honestly, also very surprised at this honor," Grandioso's owner Kim van Kampen Boyer told Eurodressage "Grandioso is only in his first year at Grand Prix and his rider and I did not have any expectations for him this year beyond becoming more experienced at the level I am very grateful to Jan Bemelmans for his "plan" for the horse, which is working better than we could have imagined Also, I want to thank Courtney King-Dye for her years of investment in GR, Lendon Gray for two essential clinics with Daniel this summer to help him with test riding, and of course my deepest gratitude to Daniel for taking on the horse--and the pressure--and doing an excellent work" Kimberly's fellow USPRE Executive Directors & Honorary Board Members extend their heartfelt congratulations !   Courtesy: TopIberian, Eurodressage