Future young horse championships with top riders as part of the judging teams
The absolute top sport was of course the main thing, but said that the comments during each test at live stream by Zibrasport was just outstanding.
Daniel Bachmann Andersen was the anchorman, first with international judge Susanne Baarup for the 4 year old final and then with Daniels rider colleague Mette Svare Ehlers for 5 year old, 6 year old and 7 year old finals.
It just brought the entire championships into a higher level following the professional, very knowledgeable and super sharp comments. Daniel bringing his experience direct to the viewers together with the judging angle from first Susanne Baarup at 4 year old final, and then Mette Svare Ehlers bringing the theory, education scale, balance, tact, self carriage etc.
More times Daniel and Mette did not agree about the judging, and Daniel pointed out more specific issues that the judges didn't take into account when giving the points, or at least they did not point it out for the subsequent comments about each combination.
It was also very interesting to hear Daniel when he a few times got a bit annoyed about riders bringing their young horses for the finals when they rather should have kept them home in order to prepare or build them up for the job, than just bringing them along knowing they were not ready.
Also great with the extra eye for Grand Prix potential, and sometimes telling about which horses he would love to try, and for those not show the greatest potential today, but nevertheless showed clear basic paces and rideability, where Daniel pointed out the natural develop over time and through that, hopefully being able to make the horse more supple and showing more expression.
It is obvious that the top riders can bring something extra for the judging of the young horses, and they really have the words in their power when speaking / explaining from their own experiences.
For Danish Warmblood Young Horse Championship finals taking place during the stallion licensing in March 2020 where Daniel is going to do the test riding of the best 24 young horses, he will do his comments while riding each horse in Danish, and for the foreign audience it will be possible to listen to English speak (running translation of Daniels comments while testing each horse).