9 year old Hermés and Dinja van Liere captures CDIO5 Grand Prix in Aachen today with impressive 78,022%

Hermés and Dina van Liere - photo @clipmyhorse

Hermés and Dina van Liere - photo @clipmyhorse

🇳🇱9 year old Hermés by Easy Game / Flemmingh with Dinja van Liere showed why they were selected for the Olympics for the Dutch team.

Hermés is not a spectacular mover. Dinja presents the young stallion in a super frame, always in front of the aides, well balanced and supple, when she is asking a bit more in the piaffe he is just answering with a clear yes. Easy supple obedient test and for the subsequent prize giving ceremony he was just standing fully relaxed all the time, while both Dark Legend and Fiontini were somewhat tense and moving around.

🇬🇧Lottie Fry joins the top again - today with Dark Legend

Good halt, power balanced diagonal, supple tact rhythm half passes, super halt with rein back, power diagonal super expressive, direct to passage, super regular, piaffe at the spot, easy transitions, good walk tour, good into passage, missing bit impulse into 2nd piaffe, nice transitions, good into canter, nice 9 times, super extended canter, well balanced zigzag, nice 1 times, nice control pirouettes, could show a bit more sit, direct to trot, power diagonal, super final centerline, in / out passage/piaffe.

🇸🇪 Fiontini and Kittel with CDIO5 debut top placement

Even though there is of course still room for improvement it really look like Kittel and Fiontini are building up a serious partnership in the arena.

Good halt, expressive well balanced diagonal, nice balance crossing half passes missing bit more bending. superb halt bit dragging rein back, super diagonal, sharp into passage, super passage, good 1st piaffe, nice transitions, walking over the back huge over track, bit unbalanced collected walk, nice into passage, super passage, missing tiny impulse 2nd piaffe, good into canter, error begin 2 times, nice extended canter swing change, good zigzag, super 1 times, need bit more weight for hind quarters for both pirouettes, good into trot, power diagonal, nice passage, super piaffe, super passage, bit open halt.

🇩🇪Today Werth lost her top placement when Quantas was trying to set off for the stables when making an error for the one times.

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