After corona lock down more very talented and high quality young Grand Prix horses has entered the international big scene.
Today Patrik Kittel and the 9 year old Swedish bred Touchdown by Quaterback / Sack took their first ever international Grand Prix start victory together. Last year at Vilhelmsborg DEN they made their international small tour debut.
It was as usual a very well prepared young Grand Prix horses shining the entire test and presented by Kittel. Super supple without tensions only minor thing was the transitions out of the piaffe tours with kind of one big step out and then catching the passage. Three super supple expressive paces, lovely contact and frame, nice angles for piaffe and passage, although the final centerline is missing a bit more power for the passage. Super nice series and well balanced pirouettes.
Another 9 year old in today’s field was Denoix PCH with Hubertus Schmidt. Back in Mannheim in April they made their international debut. The big chestnut mover shows super obedience and qualities with nice angles but still lacking the last strength for the canter tour.
Lyndal Oatley shows her 12 year old Eros in a nice harmonious picture. Strong performance with only weak point for the extended trot tour which becomes a bit running. Today’s extra change after a very nice zigzag canter dropped them down to 7th place but a very strong final part of the canter tour with nice series and super quality controlled pirouettes brings them back into 3rd spot.
One more debut today for First Romance with Dorothee Schneider showing a lovely trot tour, nice passage and good piaffe tours with bit forward trend, very nice walk tour, the canter ifself is with very nice basic quality, but seems to lack bit more strength for the flying changes especially for the change to left which becomes pretty small both for series and for the zigzag.
