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Fri 03 Mar 2007Kürten slips to seventhEQUESTRIAN:Jessica Kürten has dropped to seventh in the world rankings. The Co Antrim rider, who spent most of last year as world number two, has gone through a recent slump that has seen her demoted from fourth last month to seventh in the latest list issued by the International Equestrian Federation.The 37-year-old is on 2,983 points, leaving her 490 adrift of world number one, Germany's Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum.