Dante Weltino and Therese Nilshagen showing great form in Rotterdam (video from CDIO GPS)
2nd place with 71,84%.
75,440% CDI3 Grand Prix test from 9 yr old Danish Warmblood stallion Glock´s Zonik and Edward Gal (video)
Watch video below.
Glock´s Zonik and Edward Gal - photo credit: www.koengomes.nl
Stallions in top of today´s CDI3 Grand Prix from Rotterdam
Apache, Zonik and Salvino
Emmelie Scholtens and Apache - photo credit: www.koengomes.nl
12 yr old KWPN stallion Apache and Emmelie Scholtens has not been competing since January at Amsterdam. Fully concentrated and top harmony between horse and rider all the way. No technical issues, but very balanced and well timed all the way. The first piaffe becomes a bit cautious, while the next two are with more activity. Super nice series and well performed pirouettes with high quality. And it really looked like as if Apache also was totally in the zone, while he afterwards as usual shows around and making some noise. Lovely to see them back and right now a serious couple for the Europeans in Gothenburg mid August.
Edward Gal and Glock's Zonik - photo credit: www.koengomes.nl
9 yr old Danish Warmblod stallion Glock´s Zonik by Zack / Romanov with Edward Gal in the saddle were ready today. They recently made their international debut at CDI4 at Roosendaal with an impressive score for Grand Prix 75,78% and Grand Prix Special with 76,333%, so therefore the expectations also were high. And they did not dissapoint. Powerful stallion expression with extraordinary gaits, suppleness and harmony eventhough there are of course many more points to come than the impressive score of 75,440%. Lovely frame and suppleness for the trot tour, lovely balance with huge crossing for the half passes. Bit of tensions for passage, and for the first piaffe it becomes slightly with a couple of steps with backwards tendency, 2nd piaffe is better. Still lacking some more natural active rhythm for the piaffe itself. Nice walk tour, good rhythm and nice over the back with good over track. Well balanced zig-zag canter, good series - could be a bit more free uphill but nice big changes. Nice sit for pirouettes, lack a bit more clear canter. Final centerline with good passage / piaffe / passage.
Adrienne Lyle and Salvino - photo credit: www.koengomes.nl
American Adrienne Lyle was showing her just 10 yr old Salvino by Sandro Hit / Donnerhall. Super light and easy overall picture. Lovely off the ground with super suspension for passage and nice active picture for piaffe and sharp transitions with nice flow. Small tensions for passage but very obedient and playing along all the way with super nice qualities. Good walk. 2nd piaffe / passage tour really nice with power and flow. Transition to canter becomes a bit late. Zig-zag canter becomes a bit unbalanced. Nice series and good pirouettes. Small tensions for the final passage at the centerline.
Catch up with all the tweets from today´s Grand Prix here.
See the entire results here.
More videos of German Young Horses for final WCYH selection July 12
6 yr old
7 yr old
H2R highlights from yesterdays CDIO Grand Prix (photos by Koen Gomes)
VERDADES AND LAURA GRAVES
DANTE WELTINO AND THERESE NILSHAGEN
LONOIR AND OLIVIA LAGOY-WELTZ
PHOTO CREDIT ALL PHOTOS: GOMES MEDIA
Total list of OLD mares selected for Elite Mare Show July 20 in Rastede
World Cup in Brno - Patrik Kittel winner of both World Cup Grand Prix and World Cup freestyle (video of freestyle)
Patrik Kittel and his "new" young 9 yr old mare Well Done de la Roche CMF won both World Cup Grand Prix and World Cup freestyle last weekend in Brno.
World Grand Prix victory with 73,440% and World Cup Grand Prix freestyle with 78,5%.
Watch the World Cup freestyle victory here below.
Verdades, Dante Weltino and Lonoir stands out from today´s CDIO Grand Prix at Rotterdam
USA, The Netherlands and Sweden was the final team top 3 after today´s Grand Prix in Rotterdam.
The weather became a bit of a challange during the test today, as a thunder storm was heading towards Rotterdam, and for German Anabel Balkenhol with Dablino the heavy wind affected their test in the way that the fence around the arena just tipped over short after they started their test. Therefore judge at C, Danish H.C. Matthiesen jumped out and stoppede Anabel, so that the fence could be replaced and she could start over her test again.
Later on after the press conference the entire press center were evacuated due to the weather situation and electricity also went out.
Outstanding performance from Verdades and Graves
Outstanding with a super nice and expressive performance from Verdades and Laura Graves today. Light and easy all the way eventhough you might want to have a slightly different picture of the piaffe in the way that the picture could be a bit more closed and bit more relaxed, but easy transitions and clear rhythm all the way. Nice frame and light contact and for Verdades the weather did not seem to affect him at all. Judging panel totally agreed with Verdades and Graves in top of today´s Grand Prix.
Verdades and Laura Graves - photo credit: www.koengomes.nl
Dante Weltino and Nilshagen showing their qualities again today
Dante Weltino and Swedish Therese Nilshagen did ones again show their strength. Lovely easy picture for the trot tour, good walk and lots of potential and good qualities for the canter work, which still lacking a bit more clear uphill tendency all the way, but what an ability this stallion has for doing the most difficult exercises with top strength and balance. The suppleness and easy light picture is the way we love dressage ano 2017.
Dante Weltino and Therese Nilshagen - photo credit: www.koengomes.nl
Danish Warmblood showing super qualities
Lonoir and American Olivia Lagoy-Weltz are not just interesting with Danish Warmblood eyes but also from their lovely performance today. Lonoir is a 13 yr old gelding by De Noir / Loran (Rassing´s Lonoir - bred by Jan and Dorte Rassing).
Easy light and strong performance in very nice harmony between horse and rider. A new and very exciting international combination without any exercise weaknesses and lots of highlights.
Common for all 3 combinations - light easy and effortless performances.
Lonoir and Olivia Lagoy-Weltz - photo credit: www.koengomes.nl
Legolas not fit
Today Legolas was at start with Dawn White-O´Connor (long time assistent trainer for Steffen Peters). Dawn took over Legolas the ride back in January 2017 from Peters. It was their first apperance at the European scene. And from the first extended trot the rhythm was not clearly balanced (as often seen before under Steffen Peters), and when Dawn is going at the diagonal towards the first passage, judge (and veterinarian) at C, Danish H.C. Matthiesen rings the bell = elimination from the competition.
In many ways very sad for Dawn, but (finally) the correct decision both seen from judge at C and seen from the "side line".
More videos of some of the 5 yr old German young horses ready for final selection July 12
Enjoy D'avie and Severo Jurado Lopez from 1st German selection for WCHY (video)
Total lists of German Young Horses selected for final selection for WCHY July 12 in Warendorf
5 yr old
6 yr old
7 yr old
Hannoveraner riding horses and foals for the auction July 14 and 15
3 riding horses and 3 foals caught most attention from H2R when checking out the entire video collection for the upcoming HANN auction i Verden, and then also a foal by jumping stallion Van Gogh which might be the next Cosmo?
The gelding with catalog no 8 by Rienzi shows nice suppleness in all 3 gaits with a nice uphill natural frame.
Catalog no 163 by Totilas / Desperados (without video) is full sister to KWPN approved stallion Glock´s Toto Jr.
See the entire collection here.
Riding horses
Foals
The next Cosmo?
EM bruttotrupper for juniorer og ungryttere klar
Celine Silfen med Romio Højris til Equitour Aalborg 2017 - photo credit: www.horse2rider.com
Nyhed på DRF i dag
Landstræner Ulrik G. Sørensen har nu udtaget bruttotrupperne for junior- og ungryttere til EM i dressur.
Juniorer
- Karoline Rohmann
- Camilla Andersen
- Victoria K. Pedersen
- Sara Van Deurs
- Anna Maarbjerg Pichnick
- Annemette Lyager
- Natalie Hering
Ungryttere
- Celine Silfen
- Josefine Hoffman
- Louise Karstofte
- Pernille Pilborg
- Rose Marie Henriksen
EM afholdes i hollandske Roosendaal fra 9. - 13. august.
Germany ready for first selection of young horses for WCYH in Ermelo
Tuesday and Wednesday with first selection for WCYH
Lists of participants are ready for tomorrow´s first trainingsday towards selection for World Championship for Young Horses in Ermelo.
Helgstrand Dressage with 4 horses
Severo Jurado Lopez will be at start with 5 yr old stallion D´avie and 6 yr old gelding Quel Filou. Andreas Helgstrand with 5 yr old gelding Farrari and Marianne Helgstrand will be at start with 5 yr old gelding Vamos Amigos.
1 day for training and 1 day for doing preliminary test
Wednesday the combinations are going to ride the preliminary test, and afterwards the combinations will be appointed for the final selection at July 12. The combination will be selected based on both their training Tuesday and their test Wednesday.
5 yr old start list (43 combinations)
6 yr old start list (19 combinations)
7 yr old start list (16 combinations)
Destiny OLD winner of Nürnberger Burg-Pokal qualifier but no 2 Soiree d´Amour gets the ticket for the final
A very unusual way to get the ticket for the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final
With the new combination Destiny OLD and Kristina Bröring-Sprehe at start for yesterday´s "preliminary" Prix Sct. Georg Special it looked like a kind of "easy ticket" for the final. But when a horse previously has been at start for the finals, the horse is not allowed to compete again. So therefore today ticket for the final went to Kira Wulferding with the beautiful mare Soiree d´Amour, eventhough they came 2nd scoring 76,610%.
Today Kristina and Destiny showed even more sharpness than yesterday. Impressive education and work from the former rider and owner Sandra Nuxoll. The new combination has just been together for about 3 month now. Kristina can in many ways show the Desperado son in the same way as the father. "Attacking" successfully from start to final. Destiny is showing great basic qualities in all three gaits, and Kristina is able to get optium benefit from every single exercise today.
See Destiny OLD and Kristina Bröring-Sprehes 78,024% test here below.
Det nye koncept for kvalifikation til championatsfinalerne savner gennemgående dommerteams
Den 2. kvalifikation til championatsfinalerne er netop færdig i Ringsted i dag, og de ekvipager som skal repræsentere Danmark til Skandinavian Open i Falsterbo er nu udpeget.
For 5 års er følgende ekvipager udtaget:
- D´avie med Severo Jurado Lopez
- Vamos Amigos med Marianne Helgstrand
- UNO Don Olympic med Anna Zibrandtsen
- Atterupgaards Botticelli med Selina Hundstuen Vittinghus
For 6 år er følgende ekvipager udtaget:
- Heiline´s Danciera med Carina Cassøe Krüth
- Feodoro med Simone Pearce
- Jukebox med Michael Søgaard
- Atterupgaards Kingston med Anita Duus
For 7 års er følgende ekvipager udtaget:
- Springbank VH med Andreas Helgstrand
- Thranegaardens Rostov med Lone Bang Larsen
- Bonnaquiqui med Rune Willum Hansen
- Kipling med Anne Troensegaard
Savner gennemgående dommerteams
Med blot 6 kvalifikationer fordelt over 3 måneder havde det været optimalt hvis de enkelte dommerteams kunne være gennemgående over hele landet, idet mellemrunderne jo nu er afskaffet.
Hos de 4 års heste var blot en enkelt hest fra Billund over 8,0, mens hele 9 ekvipager var over 8,0 i Ringsted i dag.
Se alle dagens resultater fra championatskvalifikationerne her.
Feliciano 7 yr old gelding with something extra - today for Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final qualifier
12 combinations ready for Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final qualifier tomorrow at Gestüt Bonhomme
It was a huge starter field for todays preliminary Prix Sct. Georg Special test for Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final qualifier.
More new combinations and also more well known combinations are competiting for a spot at the prestigious Nürnberger final.
One of today´s new combinations were Kristina Bröring-Sprehe with her newly purchased Desperados son Destiny OLD. From the scoreboard it looks like that 4 of the judges were a bit too impressed, while the last last judge had the combination as no 10 which was much the right placement also seen from the "side line".
Soiree d´Amour and Kira Wulferding showing lovely qualities, but struggling a bit with the last strength for canter pirouettes and series.
Isabel Freese and Fürst Levantino did not agree 100% from the beginning. Isabel starts with wrong route, and Fürst Levantino just into canter for the first trot at the diagonal. During the test today there are some smaller issues. But knowing Freese she will for sure be sharp for tomorrow´s final qualifier.
Today´s absolute best horse was the just 7 yr old Feliciano by Floriscount / Lauries Crusador xx with Holga Finken. Lovely expression with power and balance all the way. Some smaller "baby" issues during the test - but watch out this horse just bring something extra for the future from H2R point of view.
Qualifier for the final is tomorrow at 11.00.
KWPN stallion Bordeaux and Isabel Freese winner of national Grand Prix (video)
Yesterday the combination won the national Grand Prix at Gestüt Bonhomme with 72,900%.
Paul Schockemöhle Online foal collection with two special Vitalis foals
14 dressage foals are presented by the 1st edition of Paul Schockemöhle. A really nice collection with very good quality, but from H2R point of view with two outstanding Vitalis foals.
Judge for yourself here below.
See the entire collection here. The online auction opened yesterday at 12.00 and is running until June 25.