Yesterday and today with test riding of the preliminary tests for 6 year old and 7 year old horses in Warendorf.
As usual some surprices came up, and among the 6 year old the Danish owned super mare St. Tropez by Santo Domingo / Rock Forever I, ridden by Anne-Marie Hosbond did not pass the German selection.
After their test Mr. Plewa said: “This is a very elegant and long legged dressage horse, showing a good hindleg, mayby with a bit more suppleness, nice transitions to collection, walk totally clear beat, bit limited over track, but the clarity of the beat was impressive, canter with good air time, could show more ground cover for the extensions and maybe also a bit more supple, but clear potential to sit and collect, clear three beat, technical good quality, the horse was always shown in a good frame, highlights for the lateral work with outstanding cadence with half passes with lots of shoulder freedom with huge crossing, the flying changes with good jump and quality, but for the canter the pure suppleness was somewhat failing today.”
At H2R top list:
In My Mind
St. Tropez - NOT long listed
Life Time
St. Felice - St Schufro / Fürstenball with Marcus Hermes NOT long listed. Lovely lightfooted mare with good expression and quality.
long listed 6 year old
long listed 7 year old
With a super presentation Danciero and Danish Anna Kasprzak were clearly on to the final selection. Comments about their test from Mr. Plewa: “Convincing trot tour with a lot of swing and very good developed from the hind legs, for the extensions you could wish for even more push from the hind legs under body, but nice ability to collect, the walk from the beginning very clear beat, very obedient, the canter a highlight, very very nice uphill, absolutely clear beat, super straight extensions very rhythmical with good ground cover, the rider could show the horse with a bit more open frame for the extensions, for even higher marks direction maximum marks, the submission with good marks the steady well balanced frame with good steady closed mouth, tiny deduction for tiny moments behind the vertical for the extensions, very good pirouettes with surplus for the 2nd fully balanced and nice sit, small advice remember to keep the horse straight when making the circles. All in all a convincing performance.”
Today´s “winner” performance from H2R point of view was from Diaton and Nicole Wego-Engelmeyer - impressive well moving, super expressive stallion.
Mr. Plewa´s comments: “The trot very dynamic, elastic, very nice cadance, and able to bring this candance for the lateral work with super regularity, the walk is spacious with good use of the back, another highlight is the canter, everything easy and supple, super extensions with lot of ability to collect and take weight for the transitions, very controlled pirouettes, for submission not really anything to note, maybe for the half passes the horse is a bit to bended, impressive with the ease and obedience of performing the test.”
Also at the H2R top list:
Zonik Plus by Zonik / Hohenstein - also one of last years eye catcher in Ermelo
Belinda FRH
Global Player OLD - this year with new rider Leonie Richter
Impressive that Isabell Werth with Valdiviani also were long listed, as the walk is very limited. Maybe usable for Werth Grand Prix, but not really usable for WCYH. And when comments about the trot for Zonik Plus was very passage like, Valdiviani was certainly the same but just mentioned as very collected.
