2015 Highlights: Longines Global Champions Tour of Vienna

With a €1 million bonus at stake at the final in Qatar, three of the world’s top riders had the chance to take the Longines Global Champions Tour crown. Luciana’s blistering victory in Vienna on her aptly named grey stallion Winningmood, closed the gap on ranking leader and World No1 Scott Brash (GBR). Luciana was now only a wafer thin two points behind Scott and as she celebrated her lastest win she threw down the gauntlet and said: “I am going to be pushing you.” Swedish champion Rolf-Göran Bengtsson was only another eight points behind Luciana and the three-way fight was set to produce a dramatic dream sporting finish to the season. It was a night of intense number crunching in the Austrian capital with the possibility that Scott could have taken the championship if he had jumped clear and Luciana and Rolf had scored zero points. But it was not to be and Scott’s four faults in the Grand Prix means the fate of the championship will only be decided on the final day of the final event of 2015. Watch how all the nail biting action unfolded here, plus we took the mighty Marcus Ehning to the Spanish Riding School of Vienna to get to know a little more about the legendary rider.