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Pieter Devos (BEL) and the 11-year-old mare Jarina J (Cicero Z x Harley) won Saturday night’s CSI5*-W 1.60m Anemone Horse Trucks Grand Prix of Amsterdam powered by Stoeterij Sterrehof – a competition counting for the Longines Rankings Group B – at the sold-out 2025-edition of Jumping Amsterdam in the Dutch capital.
“I am super happy, especially with this horse,” Devos told World of Showjumping afterwards. “She has been a bit of a rising star, and I am so happy that she is back in shape. She is really with me now, she is so fast and super competitive. Yesterday already I had a good feeling, but this was the first time after a few months that she jumped 1.60m. I am so happy with my horse; I knew she can do this and now we stepped up again.”
“I risked it from one to two, but didn’t take too much risk to the double,” Devos explained about his jump-off strategy. “And actually then I thought I was too late – but in the last line, I could make it up again.”
As the penultimate pair out in the jump-off between ten horse-and-rider combinations, Devos and Jarina J posted the winning time of 31.44, shaving a second off on Denis Lynch (IRL) and Vistogrand’s (Fantaland x Mr Visto) leading time of 32.44 and pushing the Irish rider to the runner-up spot.
Philipp Schulze Topphoff (GER) and Vivantas (Vivant x Balou du Rouet) completed the podium in third in 32.72 seconds, while the hosts’ Tani Joosten (NED) and Galdal Me (Zambesi TN x Chin Chin) finished fourth in 33.01 ahead of Marcus Ehning (GER) and Priam du Roset (Plot Blue x Tanael de Serein) in fifth in 33.04.