The “mysterious horse” Viva Vitalis OLD and Lukas Fisher showed a strong performance today. Mysterious because they were obvious pick for WCYH for Germany but never showed up for 2nd selection. Today he showed his qualities together with Lukas Fischer. Lovely supple well balanced trot tour, good quality walk tour, nice uphill well balanced canter, first flying change bit small and second bit over reacted.

World Championship combinations Wienkamp and Secret of Bavaria proved their qualities again today. A kind of overall to big tempo but Ann-Christin is still able to keep the performance with overall good balance, even though some kind of nodding for the trot tour.

At H2R stallion list to keep an eye on was Viva Vitalis, together with St. Emillion, Juwel and Erste Sahne.

St. Emillion (Suarez - Dante Weltino) with Jacob Schenk were placed 4th. Nice power balanced trot tour, good walk tour, super canter, nice 1st change, 2nd becomes kind of long in the frame and loosing the change with some trot steps after. (8,24)

Juwel (Janeiro Platinum - Sir Donnerhall I) with Linda Schmidt (unfortunately not available at CMH archive. (8,10).

Erste Sahne (Escamillo - Sir Donnerhall I) & Johanna Wadenspanner with a good swing for the trot tour, maybe a bit slow of the ground steps, missing more clear suppleness and bending for both half passes, good walk tour, super canter tour with nice self carriage and super flying changes. Unfortunately not really reflected in the score for the canter with just 8,5 for canter. Total score 8,20

For most of the class Heike Kemmer is doing nice comments as co-commentator together with Kim Kreling at Clipmyhorse.