The Ukraine galloped to the top of the FEI Nations Cup™ European Promotional League 2012 leaderboard following victory at the fifth leg in Drammen, Norway on Saturday June 23rd.  Denmark had been out in front following the previous round on home turf in Copenhagen last month, but an impressive performance at the Norwegian fixture from Bjorn Nagel, Katharina Offel, Cassio Rivetti and Aleksander Onishchenko, has relegated the Danes to second spot ahead of the last leg at Gijon, Spain in early September.

This was the second Ukrainian success of the 2012 series, following their top placing at Linz-Ebelsberg, Austria in May where the same four riders completed with just six faults to take the honours.  Double-clears from both Rivetti, riding Verdi, and Nagel with Niack de L’Abbaye put them in a position of strength at the Austrian fixture, and they only had to add five faults from Onishchenko and Comte D’Arsouilles in round one, and a single time fault from the anchor partnership of Offel and Vivant in the second round.

Runner-up spot here went to Brazil with 12 faults, while Canada slotted into third with 16 ahead of Mexico in fourth with 18 and Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Germany in joint-fifth with 24 faults.  A total of 15 nations competed.

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