Sunday March 30, 2003

Ulla Salzgeber Claims Third Consecutive World Cup Title

World Class Act by McDonald and Brentina

In their Gershwin flavored freestyle, McDonald and Brentina put in that extra effort that was lacking in their Grand Prix. The transitions were more fluent, the piaffe-passage tour was brilliant and only a flaw in the tempi changes kept her from an 80% score. Finishing second overall with a 78.89% kur score, McDonald's World Cup Finals jinx vaporised. McDonald admitted that she doesn't hold great memories from her 1998 World Cup Finals' experience, when she rode Beaurivage to a 12th place. McDonald was afraid that predictions prior to the event would put a jinx on her World Cup performance on Brentina and her silence paid off.