Sports Highlights - LGCT Rabat 2024

This is the final Grand Prix of the Launching Global Champions Tour. Welcome ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Morocco, welcome to Africa, welcome to Rabat for the final Grand Prix of the season. 15 stages, an entire season comes to a conclusion here on the African continent and if that is not enough we are also going to find out finally who is going to wear next year in 2025 for one year Is it going to be Max Kooner or is it going to be Christian Kukuk? That is the question that we need to find an answer on throughout this Grand Prix. Kukuk and Kooner, yes Maier Timmanen could jump into second place and drop Kooner to third but it's all between Kukuk and Kooner. There is an eight point difference between the two of them. Vettani has put together a championship deciding worthy track if you would ask me. It is huge, it is delicate and there's a lot of typical, as I mentioned already, holding distances. Sophie Hines with that very very exciting 9-year-old, Iron Dames Sinclair. She can't let him overrun this line on five strides. Well ridden, beautifully ridden, good swing into the line but the back rail is gone. Morocco squeezed his hind legs underneath. It's a little bit his style of jumping. He can bring his hind end up but that doesn't really swing with his hind legs. Lynch is also not part of the Super Grand Prix just yet. Lynch has three fences to jump and he is good for the clock. Round the bend comes Dennis Lynch for the first clear round in the final Grand Prix of the season. We will not see many clears. Lynch, one more fence to jump. There's Dennis Lynch with Brooklyn Heights. There go the elbows and he's through. He's through. Dennis Lynch is in the jump off. He's the first man to clear this Grand Prix. He is tenth to go. We're one third into this Grand Prix and finally a clear. Oh la la, that was lucky. Well spotted from the camera crew. Thibaut Spits is on course. He's walking through this course, not even jumping through it. He's walking through the course of Uyana Vezani. The course that saw ten go in and only one come out on clear. Spits with impress on the outside. He has to go to the outside. He shortens for the six, leaves the golden rail standing and Thibaut Spits quietly up to the last and also clear. And that is the third clear this season from Thibaut Spits with Impress K. What a performance this nine-year-old. What a horse this Impress. What a horse. Here comes the man who leads the standings by eight points over Max Kuehner. He is on the ten-year-old. Just be gentle. Flow into the double. Remember, oh huge knock on the vertical that is still standing. Huge knock. We'll see it in the replay. Koukouk still clear. Putting more and more pressure on Max Kuehner who surely will be watching. Vertical is down. The vertical. Oh and look at the wall. Can he get over? He can get over. It was not the easiest, not the cleanest round we've seen of Just Be Gentle and of Christian Koukouk. He does post a very fast four penalties. He took the inside turn but with all the rhythm. 71.59 is now his time. He ranks third. Clear obviously would have been better but this is not a bad position to be in for Christian Koukouk. However, one thing is clear. If Max Kuehner jumps a clear round, he wins the title. He wins the championship. In my opinion, horse of the season. Roquefeller de Pleville, Bois Margaux, Eduardo Alvarez, Aznar. Five consecutive clears over the first five stages.