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Rolf-Göran Bengtsson Wins Last Qualifying Leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping series at Hertogenbosch

Sweden's Rolf-Goran Bengtsson won the last qualifying leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping series at 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands by a small margin against Ireland's Jessica Kuerten. The 13-fence course designed by Louis Konickx allowed 16 through to the second-round jump-off which turned into a race against the clock. [caption id="attachment_1543" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Rolf-Goran Bengtsson and Casall La Silla Win the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping at Hertogenbosch. Photo: Kit Houghton"] [1][/caption] The result has not earned the Bengtsson a starting spot in the final in Switzerland as he is lying 24th on the series table - only the top-20 make it through. Jessica Kuerten is consequently favourite to take the title in Switzerland with a massive 90 points, heading the Western European League table with a nine-point advantage over next-best rider, Germany's Marco Kutscher. Bengtsson said of the competition: I watched Jessica's ride on the screen and thought it was impossible to beat a horse so sensationally fast... I knew it would be difficult to make the same seven strides from fence one to fence two but I thought I'd try - it was very long, but we made it - my horse has a long, slow canter so he is difficult to adjust and my job was to stay focused and to keep him jumping off that long stride, and then I got a great shot to the last and that was it! Full Results Casall La Silla (Rolf-Goran Bengtsson) Swe 0/0 32.50 Castle Forbes Libertina (Jessica Kuerten) Irl 0/0 32.60 Cevo Itot du Chateau (Edwina Alexander) Aus 0/0 33.32 Gotha (Ludger Beerbaum) Ger 0/0 33.47 Van Schijndel's Rascin (Piet Raijmakers Jr) Ned 0/0 35.06 Opium VS (Marc Houtzager) Ned 0/0 38.42 Caramell KS (Svante Johansson) Swe 0/0 40.47 Exquis Powerfree (Harrie Smolders) Ned 0/4 32.35 Noltes Kuchengirl (Marcus Ehning) Ger 0/4 33.72 Mylord Carthago (Penelope Leprevost) Fra 0/4 34.30; Robin Hood (Ben Maher) GBR 0/4 34.30 Audi's Alpapillon-Armanie (Vincent Voorn) Ned 0/4 37.08 Valentina Van't Heike (Jos Lansink) Bel 0/4 38.33 Primeval Wings (Gert-Jan Bruggink) Ned 0/8 31.71 Ukinda (Hugo Simon) Aut 0/8 34.45 Peu a Peu (Daniel Etter) Sui 0/8 35.02 ROLEX FEI WORLD CUP™ JUMPING 2009/2010 - Western European League Standings after Round 13 at 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands: 1.    Jessica Kuerten         -    90 2.    Marco Kutscher        -    81 3.    Pius Schwizer            -    77 4.    Edwina Alexander        -    75 5.    Marcus Ehning            -    74 6.    Rodrigo Pessoa        -    71 7.    Ludger Beerbaum        -    67 8.    Kevin Staut            -    59 9.    Beat Mandli            -    57 10.    Eric van der Vleuten    -    57 11.    Philipp Weishaupt        -    57 12.    Patrice Deleveau        -    55 13.    Penelope Leprevost        -    54 14.    Michael Whitaker        -    51 15.    Daniel Etter            -    50 16.    Svante Johansson        -    49 17.    Luciana Diniz            -    48 18.    Dermott Lennon        -    43 19.    Natale Chiaudani        -    43 20.    Steve Guerdat            -    39. [1] http://www.alliedequine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/rolf-goran-bengtsson-casall-la-silla.jpg