Again this year you have the possibility to follow the entire CDI competitions via live streaming at Zibrasport.
The event starts Thursday at 11:30 with CDI3 Prix Sct. Georg, followed at 13.50 with CDI3 Grand Prix.
See the entire program here, and remember it is just from Ridebane.dk there will be live streaming.
Live stream schedule at Clipmyhorse:
Wednesday
15:15 - 4 year old stallions
16:30 - 5 year old stallions
Thursday
08:00 - 4 year old stallions test rider
09:45 - 5 year old stallions test rider
The auction began on Friday, April 20th, and will end on Saturday May 5th, from 2:00 PM CET.
Two of the horses at the online auction stands out, as both catalog no 1 and no 2 seems to bring extra qualities for the future.
Very exciting which one will be the most expensive.
See the entire collection here.
Once again, Equitour Aalborg sponsored by ECCO will be hosting FEI Nations Cup in both dressage and show jumping in combination with exciting auctions, stallion show and much more
You will certainly have the possibility to be entertained in North Jutland when the international show Equitour Aalborg sponsored by ECCO will be held in Uggerhalne on 23-27 May. Youth meets experience in international competitions in both dressage and show jumping at the impressive competition venue at Helgstrand Academy. The organisers are Olympic rider Andreas Helgstrand and the experienced event organiser Jens Trabjerg who has organised international shows on Danish soil since the late 90's at different locations.
FEI Nations Cup in show jumping as well as dressage will be the highlight of the international competitions.
Last year, the Danes were triumphant in the Nations Cup with victories in both show jumping and dressage which was obviously very popular with the home crowd.
Auctions of foals and cars
Do you have a big passion for fast and special cars? Then you should visit Campen Auktion’s exclusive special auction, held during Equitour Aalborg on Friday 25 May.
The Nordic International Sales is a foal auction which was a great success last year, and the prices reflected the exclusive collection of dressage foals which was created in a collaboration between Equitour and Danish Warmblood. The winning bid placed on the filly foal Faretti by Franklin/Don Frederico (bred by HH Horses) reached nothing less than 150,000 euros.
Helgstrand Dressage stallion show
On Sunday 27 May, Helgstrand Dressage stallion station will present some of their outstanding breeding stallions under rider. In a matter of only 10 years, Andreas Helgstrand has cemented his name as owner of one of Europe's most significant and influential stallion stations, standing stallions that are used by breeders all over the world. Besides distributing their semen internationally, the stallions are also trained to compete in dressage and several of them have achieved impressive results in young horse championships and some are close to a breakthrough on the international dressage scene.
Almased Dressage Amateurs
Almased Dressage Amateurs is a new international dressage tournament for amateurs organised by Helgstrand & Trabjerg and presented by Almased Wellness.
4 stallions from Helgstrand Dressage were shining at stallion show today in Helsingborg
For the Swedish stallion show Simone Pearce has taken over the ride of Grand Galaxy Win and Springbank II VH, as their daily rider Severo Jurado Lopez was busy showing D´avie and Botticelli at Helgstand stallion show in Germany.
Quaterhit with Kenneth Damgaard showing lovely balance, expression and balance, and the new combination Kenneth and Franklin seems really to fit each other.
The stallion show from Sweden is available at the archive at Clipmyhorse.
"Open House" at Hagen
In Hagen Helgstrand Dressage stallions invited for "Open House" where about 500 people attended in the sunny spring weather.
The German stationed stallions For Sure, Valverde (video below together with Eva Möller), Jovian, So Unique and Don Deluxe were of course shown, and from Denmark the stallions Ferrari OLD, For Emotion, D’avie and Botticelli were also shown.
Blue Hors stallions at Hengsthaltung Martin Determann
Also Blue Hors stallions has been abroad this weekend, as Daniel Bachmann Andersen showed Blue Hors Zackerey, Blue Hors Emilio and Allan Grøn showed Blue Hors St. Schufro, Blue Hors Fifty Cent, Blue Hors Farrell and Blue Hors Londoner, while Blue Hors Rockefeller was shown by hand at the stallion show at Martin Determann in Germany.
Escamillo - private photo Kimberly Davies
Clear dressage winner with 9,08 and this years top score 3 year old Escamillo by Escolar/Rohdiamant at 14 days performance test in Neustadt-Dosse.
Emile Faurie and Dono Di Maggio - photo credit: Koen Gomes
It was a kind of "ghost arena" in beautiful weather at the Deutsche Bank arena in Aachen, as you could hardly not see any spectators. But still the competition was good eventhough it was not CHIO mood.
The 11 year old gelding by Dimaggio / Santander H made his debut last year in July together with Emile Faurie and since then we haven´t seen them.
It was a very smooth and nice "come back" showing two effortless tests with just an error for the one times in the Grand Prix, and Dono Di Maggio suits Faurie very well. Nice natural suppleness, good piaffe/passage and nice series.
Today Adelinde Cornelissen and Aqiedo came 2nd with 71,745%. They show a very controlled test with nice expression and good balance. Today´s test with just a small error for the 15 one time tempies.
See the entire results here.
Final day at 14 days stallion performance test
When having the chance to follow the young stallions at the performance testing, here just the final day, but still having the possibility to see the qualities from daily training, instead of ex. at shows, the picture of the young horse becomes much more clear.
For this 14 days test more of the very interesting stallions from last years licensings were represented.
Is this the way the breeders, owners and riders wants to see a 3 year old top horse presented after 2 weeks testing?
It is far from a positive impression that this testing leaves. Nearly all the stallions are lacking clear balance, very few of them are actually able to carry themselves, and most of them looks stiff and unmotivated.
The final day is available via the archive at Clipmyhorse.
Judge for yourself when watching the performance test winner which is also last autumn´s OLD champion stallion Benefit by Belantis / Sir Tender (video below).
Last weekend Charlotte Dujardin took all the titles posible with her talented and extremly well prepared young horses at NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships.
Again this year the now 7 yr old mare River Rise Nisa by Negro / Amsterdam / Abgar xx won her class, and eventhough the changes at the long side could have showed more clearness it is still H2R favorite next top horse for Dujardin.
The mare is bred by Sarah Tyler-Evans, and owned in partnership between Sarah Tyler-Evans and Charlotte Dujardin.
Grand Prix for Grand Prix freestyle
Today´s winner Finnish Henri Rouste with the 13 year old Roccabar by Riedinger / Compliment. Supple expressive big mover, for a few moments a bit unbalanced for the trot tour, but without any technical errors. The piaffe tours becomes a bit wide hind, but at the same time lovely expression from the side showing his long supple frontlegs. Score 71,413%.
Diavolessa VA with Tatyana Kosterina were placed 3rd with 69,696% and showed a solid test without any major issues. A bit more power and expression would for sure also be reflected positively at the scoreboard.
Sascha Schultz and his portuguese stallion Dragao were placed as no 5 with 69,109%. Unfortunately the overall picture becomes a bit about dropping the pole. At the entering halt Dragao becomes behind the verticle, but still a clear 7 from all the judges. Sascha manage quite well for the trot tour to keep him up (but not out with the nose, but still ok up), but for the entire canter tour except the pirouettes, Dragao becomes very short in the neck and drops the pole for most of the time.
No 15 today was Adelinde Cornelissen with Zephyr. It became a test with more spooky moments and unfortunately also with today´s biggest differences between the judges, as the Danish judge Lone Dichmann saw the test at 69% and German Katrina Wüst saw the test at 61%.
Finished as no 16 were Fabienne Lütkemeier and Fiero. They were struggling with the piaffe tours today as they were just missing implusion, beat and activity.
See the entire results here.
D´avie and Severo Jurado Lopez at Danish Warmblood stallion show 2018 - photo credit: H2R
Hos Helgstrand Dressage sker der hele tiden nyt – selv på den digitale front, hvor Helgstrand nu er klar til at lancere en webshop med salg af sæd fra de mange tophingste, som stalden huser.
Helgstrand Dressage så dagens lys tilbage i 2008 og har sidenhen udviklet sig til at være en af verdens mest anerkendte salgsstalde. Parallelt med salgsstalden har stedet etableret en hingstestation, som tæller 23 avlshingste af højeste kvalitet. Deriblandt et utal af fløjhingste og præmiehingste.
- Vi har længe gået med tankerne om at lave en webshop, for at optimere vores service og gøre sædbestillingen endnu nemmere og mere fleksibel for vores kunder, fortæller Lene Birkemose, der er ansvarlig for hingstestationen i Danmark.
- Selvom vi efterhånden har opbygget os et godt forhandlernetværk, er der stadig rigtig mange, der bestiller direkte hos os. Det er et stort arbejde at administrere de mange daglige sædbestillinger og derfor er webshoppen også et tiltag, der skal gøre arbejdet lidt nemmere for os, tilføjer Lene.
Helgstrand Dressage pointerer, at selvom webshoppen gerne skulle hjælpe mange hoppeejere nemmere gennem sædbestillingen, så kan sædbestillingen stadig ske direkte til Lene Birkemose, ligesom hun og Helgstrands to hingsteansvarlige, Christian Springborg og Jesper Bisgaard Nielsen, stadig står til rådighed i forhold til rådgivning omkring rette valg af hingst.
Helgstrand Dressage fejrer lanceringen af webshoppen ved at tilbyde 10% rabat på 1. rate ved bestilling af sæd fra en af stedets mange nye lovende 3-års hingste ved at benytte rabatkoden "stallions2018". Webshoppen finder du på www.helgstrandstallions.dk. Shoppen vil i første omgang være tiltænkt de danske kunder, men vil udvides med både en engelsk og tysk side.
Lene Birkemose
Sædbestilling og rådgivning
Mail: stallion@helgstranddressage.dk
Tlf.: +45 22 57 44 11
Christian Springborg
Rådgivning
Mail: chbreeding@helgstranddressage.dk
Tlf.: +45 41 47 50 00
Jesper Bisgaard Nielsen
Rådgivning
Mail: jebreeding@helgstranddressage.dk
Tlf.: +45 26 29 43 05
Highlight of the day was 7 year old Fürsten-Look and Isabel Freese. Photo credit: Horsenews.dk
Nice quiet but still a bit grey Danish spring weather for more than 500 people attending yesterday´s Open House at HP Horses in Hillerød.
Lovely facilities, beautiful setup for the day with among other champagne and small special made HP Horses cakes for the audience.
A warm welcome from Lone Bøegh Henriksen herself telling a bit about the program for the day, and not least that she was actually wearing spring colors, as green is the color of the hope associated to her newly acquisition the stallion Total Hope.
As usual Per Springborg, owner of Stutteri Springborg was in charge of the running comments and informations about every single horse, and for the day Dennis Fisker, pro rider, young horse judge and Danish national coach for junior and young riders was doing the comments about the horses shown under saddle.
Fürsten-Look, Delizia, Dollar Girl, De Bryune, Best of Mount St. John and Be my Beauty Queen H2R highlights of the day
High qualities combined with the best bloodlines including huge success for both sport and breeding is the stamp of the collection from HP Horses.
Great to be able to se the handsome and very well moving Fürsten-Look which now has become much stronger, and recently very successful at German national S-level.
Fürsten-Look checking out his new neighbor Total Hope - photo credit: H2R
The super mare Delizia by Fürstenball/De Noir from Lotte Liv Kulle and Anne Tronsegaard, was shown by HP Horses rider Maria Falkner Hansen, as Anne was unable to take part herself as she was at a wedding. 20 minutes in the saddle before showing her for the audience. This is just a very special mare. (video below)
The full sisters De Bruyne (2 year old stallion) and Dollar Girl (3 year old mare) by De Niro/San Amour also brings something very special, like the 3 year old Best of Mount st. John by Fürst Romancier/Bordeaux/Sir Donnerhall I. She is now going to Germany to be prepared for the mare performance test where Wibke Hartmann-Strommel is going to show her.
De Bruyne by De Niro / San Amour - photo credit: Horsenews.dk
Last year Be My Beauty Queen by Bonds/San Amour became filly of the year in Germany and she is still something very special (video from last year below)
Remember you can catch up at the archive from the entire Open House, and for more uploads of Total Hope, De Angelo and Sansibar AK you can check out HP Horses Youtube channel.
Well organised and shining horses and riders for yesterday´s Open House at HP Horses.
A lot of people found their way to HP Horses for 2 hours of intensive and well organised presentation of mares, foals, youngsters and stallions.
In a dramatic conclusion to an extraordinary battle between two mighty forces, Germany’s Isabell Werth (48) posted a back-to-back victory at the FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final 2018 in Paris, France today.
America’s Laura Graves (30) and Verdades put all the pressure on the defending champion when pinning her into runner-up spot in yesterday’s Grand Prix, so in this afternoon’s deciding Freestyle Werth had it all to do to put that behind her and come back out fighting. But with her trademark steely determination, the phenomenal athlete produced a pristine performance to see off the challenge and lift the coveted trophy for the fourth time in her incredible career.
It was right down to the wire however, and she knew that the slightest error was out of the question when second-last to go. Graves had already posted a massive score of 89.082 which, the US rider admitted, surprised even her. “I knew anything was possible. I knew it would take a score like that to possibly get a win and it was a huge personal best for me!” Graves said.
However Werth mustered all the skill and experience of a lifetime to squeeze her rival out of pole position with the winning mark of 90.657. She described yesterday’s Grand Prix defeat as “motivating“, and simply used it to spur herself on to better things with the help of team coach and manager, Monica Theodorescu. “Like I said yesterday I was not really disappointed or sad, I was just thinking about how I had to prepare for today and how I had to make it better and analyse what went wrong. So Monica and me, we decided to go in the big warm-up arena today, to bring her (Weihegold) forward and to make her free again, and that worked, and today she was the horse I wanted to show yesterday.”
"This is life, a lot of people think it’s easy, you win and you win again, but it’s not like that. You have to think about it all the time and keep listening to your horse. Yesterday was not our day, but today we could solve it. And this is what I really like to do, and that’s the reason why I love to compete!"
Isabell Werth (GER)
And today’s result was another reminder of the continuing resurgence of the German Dressage powerhouse, with Werth’s compatriots Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (Unee BB) and Dorothee Schneider (Sammy Davis Jr) slotting into third and fifth places. Von Bredow-Werndl’s success was at the expense of Sweden’s Patrik Kittel who, as always, had the crowd right behind him when producing another one of his toe-tapping performances with Deja but who just missed a place on the podium when having to settle for fourth.
Graves threw down something of a challenge at this evening’s press conference. “I never practice my Freestyle as much as my other tests, so I think now I have a bit of homework to do and I think there are many more points to be earned in the future”, she said, so she is clearly marking Werth’s card for the next time they meet.
Today however the lady taking centre stage was one of the great role models in the sport whose accomplishments are so many they may never be matched. Werth is taking great satisfaction from her fourth FEI World Cup™ Dressage title, not just because it’s another success but because of the way she achieved it.
“To have experience is an advantage if you use it in the right way, and I think we did that from yesterday to today,” she said. “After a lot of years in the sport you know how many things can happen, how things can change very quickly. It gives you the confidence to go in the ring and to try your best - you know what your horse can do and you know what you can do. This was just a great day today!”, said the happy German star.
Result:
1. Weihegold OLD (Isabell Werth) GER 90.657
2. Verdades (Laura Graves) USA 89.082
3. Unee BB (Jessica von Bredow-Werndl) GER 83.275
Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Blue Hors Zack, Danish Championships 2017 - photo credit: H2R
One big miss out for H2R prediction for today´s top 5 was Swedish Patrik Kittel with Deja. And also underestimated Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Unee BB. Verdades and Weihegold as predicted in the top battle, while Glock´s Zonik was lacking the last routine, and Blue Hors Zack with Daniel Bachmann Andersen showed great form and finished as no 6.
H2R top 5 before today´s class:
(1)Verdades
(2)Weihegold
(9)Glock´s Zonik
(4)Sammy Davis Jr
(6)Blue Hors Zack
H2R comments during the Grand Prix
Verdades USA - open halt, power extended trot, super supple half passes, super nice halt rein back, extended trot smooth, bit tension for 1st passage/piaffe/passage tour, good walk, nice transition to passage, ditto 2nd piaffe/passage, super nice 2 times but bit rolling canter rhythm, supple zig-zag, big changes 1 times but could show more airtime, good sit for pirouettes, power extended trot, hot final piaffe, want to make final halt bit early but kept on.
Weihegold OLD GER - small tension halt, bit hold back extended trot, good half passes lack bit expression, bit tense rein back, 1st part of 1st passage bit tense hind, superb piaffe including sharp transitions, 2nd part passage super, good walk, nice 2nd piaffe/passage tour, small tension transition to canter, nice 2 times, change going into extended canter, lost balance a bit for zig-zag, error 1 times, super nice pirouettes, more like medium trot for final extended trot, sharp final, open halt.
Unee BB GER - good start, zig-zag bit unbalanced in the contact, lack bit more clear forward search for 1st piaffe, good walk tour, not clear transition into passage, ditto 2nd piaffe, dropping pole a bit for 2 times, lack bit uphill for zig-zag, becomes bit hind for both pirouettes, a bit take self turns, good final centerline.
Sammy Davis Jr GER - super halt, ups bit small steps forward, lovely easy diagonal, nice flow for half passes, bit tense halt for rein back, travelling a bit for piaffe, nice bouncy passage, bit short walk, good 2nd piaffe, good 2 times, good zig-zag, nice 1 times, stays a bit down in the hand for the pirouettes, expressive diagonal, lost trot a bit for turn into the centerline, bit forward final piaffe.
Deja SWE - power expressive start, nice balance for zig-zag, lovely reach/crossing, super extended trot, nice transition to passage, piaffe on the spot small unbalance at the end, super relaxation for extended walk, good collected walk, super transition to passage, bit tense 2nd piaffe, nice 2 times, full risk extended canter, small unbalanced zig-zag, good 1 times, good pirouettes, super extended trot, bit tense piaffe super nice passage final.
Blue Hors Zack DEN - good halt, super extended trot, nice smooth zig-zag trot, bit unbalanced halt with rein back, nice extended trot, nice passage and good transition in and out of piaffe, very nice walk tour, good into passage, nice transitions and good 2nd piaffe, good transition to canter, super 2 times, bit concervative extended canter, good zig-zag, super big 1 times, nice pirouettes, good extended trot, travelling forward final piaffe, super halt. 74,130%
America’s Laura Graves pinned defending champion Isabell Werth from Germany into runner-up spot in today’s Grand Prix with a personal-best score from her gelding Verdades at the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2018 Final in Paris (FRA). (FEI/Liz Gregg)
Laura Graves (30) has been threatening the supremacy of German superstar, Isabell Werth (48), for some time now and today, when it really mattered, the American pinned the most medalled athlete in the history of equestrian sport into runner-up spot in the Grand Prix at the FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final 2018 in Paris (FRA).
Riding her beloved gelding Verdades, Graves was runner-up to Werth and her brilliant mare Weihegold at the 2017 Final in Omaha (USA) a year ago, and a few months later they actually pipped the German duo on Werth’s home turf in Aachen so there was always a question about whether they could do it again. This afternoon they proved that indeed they could, as the big horse she calls “Diddy”, and who she has owned since he was a foal, carried the Florida-based rider to a personal-best winning score of 81.413 with a performance that just oozed everything that’s great about a long-established partnership.
But when Graves was asked at this evening’s press conference how it felt to have Werth sitting beside her in second place, she replied -
"it feels very scary, especially with such a fierce competitor because I know she’s going to ride even harder tomorrow!"
Laura Graves USA (1st)
and she’s probably right about that. Werth didn’t flinch when asked what it was like to be runner-up for once - “well since we are in France I just say, c’est la vie!” she replied. But all joking apart you could tell that today’s defeat may well be turned to her advantage, because this is a lady with ice in her veins.
She had to follow the US rider into the ring so the pressure was on, and although Weihegold’s piaffe and passage work was as spectacular as ever there was a lack of concentration and the mare didn’t respond to her rider’s leg aids as she normally would in canter. “It’s nothing serious, it happens and it makes it quite exciting! I didn’t plan it like this, but we will try to make it as hard as possible for Laura tomorrow!” Werth said after posting a mark of 78.261.
When asked if she had made the right decision about which horse to bring to Paris, since she could also have chosen to defend her title with her gelding Emilio, she giggled and said “when I call him (Emilio) tonight he will laugh and say it’s your fault that this has happened!”. But Werth pointed out that Emilio is scheduled for the forthcoming outdoor season, “and that’s why I took Weihe here, and I hope tomorrow we will show that it was the right decision”.
German riders Jessica von Bredow-Werndal with Unee BB and Dorothee Schneider with Sammy Davis Jr claimed third and fourth places, while Sweden’s Patrik Kittel finished fifth ahead of young Dane, Daniel Bachmann-Andersen with Blue Hors Zack, in sixth.
However tomorrow’s Freestyle competition, which will decide the fate of the 2018 title, looks set to be a fascinating clash between just two mighty forces - the rising American star who took team gold and individual fourth place at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and who was only five years old when Werth won the first of her three FEI World Cup™ Dressage titles in 1992, and the German legend whose six Olympic, five World Championship and nine European gold medals are only the tip of the most extraordinary iceberg.
It’s game on - and it’s going to be a fascinating finale. Don’t miss a hoofbeat!
Result, Grand Prix:
1. Verdades (Laura Graves) USA 81.413
2. Weihegold OLD (Isabell Werth) GER 78.261
3. Unee BB (Jessica von Bredow-Werndl) GER 75.667
Trot 9,0 - walk 9,0 - canter 8,5 - submission 8,0 - overall impression 9,0 = 8,7
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