Matthias Alexander Rath on Destacado Captures Mexico’s First World Cup Grand Prix, Fellow German Ingrid Klimke on First Class Runner-Up

Matthias Alexander Rath on Destacado Captures Mexico’s First World Cup Grand Prix, Fellow German Ingrid Klimke on First Class Runner-Up

Matthias Alexander Rath on Destacado FRH captured Mexico’s first ever World Cup Grand Prix Saturday with fellow German Ingrid Klimke on First Class runner-up.

Matthias and the 12-year-old stallion scored 73.326% in the rider’s second competition in North America, the other occasion 15 years ago on Sterntaler on Germany’s bronze medal team at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky.

At the show grounds near Mexico City, he will pick up the biggest slice of the €100,000 Grand Prix purse and will be in Sunday’s €200,000 Freestyle and a chance to return home to the Western European League with full points for the World Cup Final in Fort Worth, Texas next April.

Matthias and Destacado competed in the 2024 World Cup Final in Saudi Arabia and the horse was reserve world champion as a six-year-old. This year, the duo rode on Germany’s Nations Cup team in France as well as the CDI4* at the prestigious World Equestrian Festival in Aachen.

Ingrid, on gold medal teams at two Olympics, and the 13-year-old mare First Class scored 72.500% for runner-up.

Ingrid competed First Class in April that was the pair’s second CDI this year before the Mexico event.

Julio Mendoza Loor on Jewel’s Goldstrike, the 14-year-old gelding that he rode for his native Ecuador at the Paris Olympics in 2024, placed third on 72.348%. Julio is based in North Carolina.

Evelyn Eger the third German and youngest rider in the class at age 27 placed fourth on 70.630% on the 12-year-old mare Tabledance OLD. Evelyn, based in Hagen, Germany, was the second largest prize money winner at last winter’s Global Dressage Festival in.Wellington.

USA’s Kevin Kohmann, based in Wellington and who competed here last year on Dünensee placed fifth on 70.543%. Kevin and the 16-year-old Dünensee competed in the past two World Cup Finals, and currently stands second in the North American qualifying standings for one of three places reserved for this geographic region.

Devon Kane, his wife and only other rider for the U.S., retired her Vamos.

Results:

World Cup Grand Prix

1. Matthias Alexander Rath (GER)

Destacado FRH 73.326%

2. Ingrid Klimke (GER) First Class 92 72.500%

3. Julio Mendoza Loor (ECU) Jewel’s Goldstrike 71.348% 4. Evelyn Eger (GER) Tabledance OLD 70.630%

5. Kevin Kohmann (USA) Dünensee 70.543%

6. Jose Luis Enrique Padilla Liekens (MEX) Johnny Cash 63.696%

7. Patricia Ferrando (VEN) Honnaisseur SJ 62.848%

8. Antonio Maldonado Marron (ESP) Beryll 28 62.435%

9. Maria Viktorovna Ugryumova Mikhailova (MEX) Tostolany 58.543%

Devon Kane (USA) Vamos retired

Antonio Rivera Galarza (MEX) Gentil eliminated

Matthias Alexander Rath and Destacado FRH, winner of Mexico World Cup Grand Prix.