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Nu Chexomatic Wins World Cup Reining Bronze Trophy Open Final

Bernard Fonck, aboard Steve and Gina Vannietvelt’s What A Wave, risked everything and had a beautiful run, but ended with a 225.5 for the Reserve Championship. Sapergia and Gotta Gold Chain placed third.

“I am very happy with our two horses,” Sapergia said. “They were great at home and even better here in the show arena. Nu Chexomatic and Gotta Gold Chain are very special horses both. Nu Chexomatic was not even impressed by the crowd. It is such a lucky moment for us, I am so grateful for the chance to ride these two horses at this great event. The Americana is fantastic and the crowd is unbelievable.”

Tina Kunstner-Mantl and her husband, Klaus Mantl, bought Nu Chexomatic as a 4-year-old. Kunstner-Mantl was the NRHA European Futurity Non-Pro Reserve Champion with the gelding and won the Italian Reining Horse Association Derby Non-Pro with him twice. With Sapergia, the gelding won the 23 Classic, SVAG CS Classic Open and NRHA Bronze Trophy Open at the NRHA European Championship, was the Italian Futurity Champion and Reserve Bronze Trophy Champion at the Belgian and NRHA Breeders Futurity. They finished 2013 as the NRHA Open World Champion.

After the Bronze Trophy, Manuel Bonzano’s great stallion Great Sun Burst retired from the arena in front of 4,800 visitors. The four-time

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