Felicitas Hendricks Tops World Cup Grand Prix With Personal Best to Kick Off Chilly AGDF 3 Action
By Alice Collins for Wellington International
Horses who traveled to Florida for the winter season did not have to acclimate to the weather on Thursday, January 23, as the opening day of week three at the 2025 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington brought unusually low temperatures in the mid 50s and a chilly wind. None of that fazed 23-year-old German rider Felicitas Hendricks as she and Drombusch OLD (Destano x Dimaggio) produced a 72.457% test—with a high score of 73.696% from Dutch judge Monique Peutz-Vegter—to top the FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix, sponsored by Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
It was the identical score that the pair put on the scoreboard exactly a year ago, a personal best, to top the same World Cup™ Grand Prix in 2024. This year’s AGDF, hosted by Wellington International, includes seven weeks of CDI competition and weekly national shows running through March 30.
Second and third places in the 15-strong class were filled by US riders: Ocala-based Anna Marek notched up 71.239% riding her 2023 Pan American Games team gold medal mount, Janet Simile’s 15-year-old gelding Fire Fly (by Briar Junior), while local rider Kevin Kohmann guided Diamante Farms’ Dancier 16-year-old, Dünensee, to 70.37% and third place.
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