Bravo! Impressive Italian Grand Prix Win as Emanuele Camilli & Odense Odeveld Reign in Vejer de La Frontera

By Jumper News on 2024-02-25

Vejer de La Frontera, Spain – February 25, 2024 – Bravo, impresive Italian!The clear winner of the €105,675 Junta de Andalucía Grand Prix CSI 4* on Sunday at the 30th edition of the Andalucía Sunshine Tour was Italian, Emanuele Camilli (ITA), riding Odense Odeveld (Diamant de Semilly xQuerlybet Hero), owned by Paul Schockemöhle Pferdehaltung GmbH, R&R Horses Germany.

Emanuele was first to go in the ten-horse jump off of this 1.55m Longines Ranking GP, with the course being designed by Louis Konickx. Louis had told us before the class that he had designed a course including triple combinations, double combinations. “This is a very interesting arena, it goes a little bit up and down, and I use that in my distances and my lines. I hope we get a real exciting competition, twelve clears would be really nice.” So his predictions were almost spot on.

**Emanuele Camilli** (ITA) & **Odense Odeveld**

After his win Emanuele told us: “I’m really, really happy, for many reasons, first of all because I won and then the second this is an Olympic year, so to start preparations in this way, actually, I’m proper happy about it. My horse jumped fantastic , it was his second Grand Prix after a little break, because last year,… we just restarted and yeah, it couldn’t be better! Today the course was actually really selective, OK everybody knows the course builder…. he has a lot of experience” Emanuele went on to explain the sign of good course design is that the faults are spread across all the fences and… “ it was really good actually and the jump off was fast. And we had a lot of fun! I hope you did too!”

Emanuele’s time in the jump off was 38.26 seconds, so this was the time to beat, and no-one came close, indeed, he was the only rider to finish clear in under 40 seconds.

Coming in second was, Dutch, Michael Greeve (NED) on the 9-year-old, Denver (Diarado x Quantum), in a time of 40.03 seconds after a lovely round.

]Hot on Michael’s heels was Spanish, Imma Roquet Autonell with Icenta del Maset (Indret del Masset x Cento), in 40.05 seconds.

In fourth place, Anthony Bourquard (SUI) rode White Gate (Casalito’ x ‘Illbruck Contago’). Despite her first 1.55 GP, Odile Gierech (LUS) guided No-comment de Septon towards a very respectable fifth-place finish (Jenson Van’t Meulenhof x Couleur Rubin).

The director of Tourism for the Junta de Andalucía, Francisco Montes; the director for Sports Systems and Values in Andalucía, María de Nova and the territorial delegation for agriculture, fishing, water and Rural development in Cadiz, Francisco Moreno García, gave out the prizes for this 30th edition of the Andalucía Sunshine Tour, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Government of Andalucía, through Tourism and Sports of Andalucía.