TSF Dalera BB and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl - photo credit: Lily Forado
Enjoy the beautiful 88,440% freestyle here below.
FEI Press Release - Dalera and von Bredow-Werndl beat Weihegold and Werth in classic clash at Stuttgart
German riders claim top five places and dominate WEL leaderboard
Jessica von Bredow-Werndl was “over the moon” with delight after winning the third leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2019/2020 Western European League on home ground at Stuttgart (GER) today. Riding the 12-year-old Trakehner mare TSF Dalera BB with which she claimed team gold at the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2018 in Tryon (USA) and individual Freestyle bronze at this summer’s European Championships in Rotterdam (NED), she produced a breathtaking performance to pin defending triple-champions Isabell Werth and Weihegold into second place.
The host nation completely dominated the line-up with Helen Langehanenberg, Dorothee Schneider and Benjamin Werndl finishing third, fourth and fifth. For von Bredow-Werndl this was a very special result.
"“It’s like Christmas coming early!"
Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (GER)
she said this evening.
Werth, winner with Emilio at the second leg of the series in Lyon (FRA) two weeks ago, looked set to march to victory once again after topping yesterday’s Grand Prix in which today’s winner had to settle for second place. But a couple of blips saw the legendary lady trailing her team-mate who set a massive target-score of 88.440 when second-last to go.
The Freestyle began with Ireland’s Judy Reynolds and Vancouver K putting 80.755 on the board, and this pair, who got the worst of the draw after finishing an uncharacteristic 11th in the Grand Prix, were still out in front with just five of the 15 starters - all of them German - left to compete.
Helen Langehanenberg demoted the Irish duo with a brilliant performance from her 17-year-old stallion Damsey FRH who danced up the centreline with foot-perfect tempi-changes to post 83.735. And when Dorothee Schneider and DSP Sammy Davis Jr slotted in close behind with 83.395 and Benjamin Werndl and Daily Mirror scored 80.900 then it was 2013 series champion Langehanenberg who was still in command with just two left to run.
But Benjamin’s sister, 33-year-old Jessica, turned the class on it’s head with a technically brilliant performance from Dalera that also sparkled.
"She gave me a feeling I’ve never had before! In Rotterdam she was already amazing but today it felt even lighter and easier. Every piaffe was amazing, every transition every passage and pirouette, every half-pass…..I’m so excited about our future now!"
Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (GER)
As Werth set off with her last-to-go ride however it seemed only a matter of form that she would overtake her compatriot’s score. But Weihegold’s test wasn’t clean, and despite a confident one-handed passage to finish, their mark of 87.240 would only be good enough for runner-up spot. “I had super piaffe/passage but had two little mistakes. I maybe risked too much - Jessica deserves to win tonight”, said the five-time champion who is chasing down four titles in a row.
“Stuttgart is one of the toughest qualifiers for the World Cup so it feels like winning at Aachen or at a Championship! I couldn’t be more happy, I knew this was possible but it’s still like a dream come true!” said von Bredow-Werndl. She’s aiming for the series Final in Las Vegas, USA next April but not with today’s winning ride. “I want to take Zaire to Las Vegas, and I’m trying to prepare Dalera for the Olympics next summer. Tokyo is already for sure somewhere in my head, and I would be delighted to be part of Team Germany there”, she pointed out.
The top nine on the Western European League will qualify for the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2020 Final, and after the first three qualifiers the leading four on the league table are all Germans - von Bredow-Werndl and Frederic Wandres sharing pole position followed by Langehanenberg in third and Benjamin Werndl in fourth place.
The next leg will take place in Madrid (ESP) in two weeks’ time.
Result here
WEL Standings here
Watch highlights here
Four World Championships disciplines in 2022 for Denmark (FEI press release)
FEI announces hosts for World Championships and World Cup Finals
Host cities for the FEI World Championships 2022 and other major events up to 2023/2024 were allocated today by the FEI Board at its in-person meeting in the Russian capital Moscow.
FEI World Championships in four disciplines: Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage and Vaulting will be staged in Herning (DEN) in August 2022. The Danish city, which runs a qualifier for the FEI Dressage World Cup™ annually, previously hosted a multi-discipline equestrian event in 2013 when it staged the FEI European Championships for Jumping, Dressage and Para-Dressage.
Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), venue for the Eventing discipline at the Rome 1960 Olympic Games, will host FEI World Championships for Eventing and Driving in September 2022. The Italian venue, located 35 kilometres south of Rome, is no stranger to hosting high-level equestrian events and FEI Championships. It was the site for the cross country competition at the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 1998 and hosted the FEI World Driving Championships for Singles in 2006 and 2010.
“When we opened the process for the FEI World Championships 2022 to single and multi-discipline bids, our intention was to have events that were more manageable and sustainable at proven venues,” FEI Secretary General Sabrina Ibáñez said. “By allocating these multi-discipline Championships to Herning and Pratoni del Vivaro we’re working with hosts that already have the necessary experience and required infrastructure in place to organise world-class equestrian championships.
“We received some truly excellent bids and unfortunately we don’t have enough FEI World Championships to allocate to everyone, but we very much hope that these excellent organisers will bid again in the future to host championships at their venues.”
The World Championships 2022 in the Olympic and Paralympic disciplines of Jumping, Eventing, Dressage and Para Dressage, will serve as qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The FEI Board agreed unanimously that any decision on the FEI World Championships in Endurance and Reining should be postponed pending the outcome of discussions about both disciplines on 18 November and voting on 19 November.
The FEI Board also allocated FEI World Cup™ Finals for 2022 to 2024, with Leipzig (GER) once again hosting four FEI World Cup™ Finals under one roof from 6-10 April 2022. The German city previously hosted the same four disciplines – Jumping, Dressage, Driving and Vaulting – in 2011.
The FEI World Cup™ Finals for Jumping and Dressage will return to Omaha (USA) in 2023 (12-16 April), and the FEI World Cup™ Finals 2024 for Jumping and Dressage were allocated to Riyadh (KSA). Dates for the FEI World Cup™ Finals 2024 in Riyadh will be confirmed. Bordeaux (FRA) will host the FEI Driving World Cup™ Finals in both 2023 (2-5 February) and 2024 (1-4 February).
The bidding process for the FEI Vaulting World Cup™ Finals 2023 and 2024 will be reopened.
In addition, the Board allocated qualifiers for the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ series, FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Youth 2020 and FEI Eventing Nations Cup™ 2020, FEI Jumping Ponies Trophy™ 2020 qualifiers and Finals and other Championships.
The list of key allocations is below (a complete list will be included in the detailed report of today’s in-person FEI Board meeting):
FEI World Championships 2022
Multi-discipline
FEI World Championships (Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage & Vaulting) - Herning (DEN), 6 - 14 August
FEI Eventing World Championship - Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), 14-18 September
FEI Driving World Championship - Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), 21-25 September
FEI World Cup™ Finals 2022
FEI World Cup™ Finals (Jumping, Driving, Vaulting & Dressage) - Leipzig (GER), 6-10 April
2023
FEI World Cup™ Finals (Jumping & Dressage) - Omaha (USA), 12-16 April
FEI Driving World Cup™ Final - Bordeaux (FRA), 2-5 February
2024
FEI World Cup™ Finals (Jumping & Dressage) – Riyadh (KSA), 4-9 March or 15-20 April
FEI Driving World Cup™ Final - Bordeaux (FRA), 1-4 February
VIDEO - Lisa Müller and Gutwettlkam´s Stand by Me OLD winner of CDI4 Grand Prix in Stuttgart today
Personal best and strong victory for Lisa Müller with her 12 year old Stedinger / De Niro gelding Stand by Me OLD.
Power trot tour with top expression, passage with huge elasticity and super balance which Lisa is able to bring into the piaffe and keeping the same rhythm as the passage just at the spot, with additionally transitions with power and top balance. The walk tour is good and she manage to keep him focused even though the ultimate relaxation is missing. The canter tour with some tensions and a few technical issues, but Lisa still manage to keep it all together. The final centerline is just outstanding - judge for yourself below.
For both stallions Franziskus and Escolar it looks like some kind of compromise from their riders, Ingrid Klimke and Hubertus Schmidt, as they are both presented in a bit too open frame and for some moments lacking the 100% honest push and go from behind for the collected work.
Emilio and Werth had some technical issues today (placed 5th)
Emilio GER - backwards trend halt, well balanced diagonal, good half passes lack bit carriage, bit cautious halt with rein back, power diagonal, nice into passage, tensions/resistance for begin of piaffe but settled, bit unbalanced extended walk tour, small tensions for 2nd piaffe, good passage, good transitions, good into canter, nice 2 times, error end extended canter - take self change, good zigzag, good 1 times, good pirouettes, power diagonal, super smooth final centerline.
Personal best
For both Marcus Hermes and Charlotte Fry it was with personal best scores today placed 4th and 6th with 74,652% and 73,652%.
The 9 year old gelding ZINQ Abegglen FH, and the 10 year old KWPN stallion Everdale are both shown with nicely closed frames for their performances, with a bit hot tendency from Abegglen during the test and a very obedient Everdale playing along all the way today.
Super interesting young horses for the future.
H2R comments during the tests:
ZINQ Abegglen FH GER - nice halt, super expressive diagonal, smooth half passes, bit open halt nice rein back, expressive diagonal, super passage, lack more clear forward search for 1st piaffe but keep the rhythm good, could show more let go for extended walk, good collected walk, power direct to passage, wauw well managed 2nd piaffe super transitions, super passage, good 2 times could show bit more clear flow forward, balance best for zigzag left, super managed 1 times, top quality 1st pirouette, 2nd lack bit more clear flow, power expressive diagonal, power final, superb halt.
Everdale GBR - open halt, power expressive diagonal, good go and flow for half passes, super halt with rein back, good power diagonal, expressive passage small tensions hind, easy 1st piaffe with nice transitions, good extended walk, bit too much forward collected walk, early transition to passage, nice 2nd piaffe with easy transitions, tense transition to canter, big supple 2 times, super extended canter, good managed zigzag, good 1 times small disturb in the contact, good pirouettes, bit late transition to M, power diagonal, very nice and smooth final centerline.
See the full results here.
VIDEO - Germany dominates CDI-W Grand Prix in Stuttgart today
Top 6 with German combinations
It became kind of internal competition for the German combinations today in Stuttgart, and they all went for it. It was clearly a very motivated field of competitors today, where you got a lot of positive tensions where you could see that every single rider was fighting for the points.
Winner Werth showed a very motivated Weihegold OLD, and it was clearly that Werth was keen to make a clear test. For the canter tour Werth really had to show her own strength, as ex the extended canter was with risk but at the same time Werth looked determined not to make Weihe do the change in the middel of the exercise, likewise the series where Weihegold were challenging Werth a bit, being kind of over motivated, but Werth kept the control all the way.
For Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her power mare TST Dalera BB it was just about the margins from taking the victory from Werth and Weihegold OLD, but said that it is about 10 points more from each of the judges. And today she could have scored a bit higher at entering halt, collected walk tour and both series, but no technical issues and she was also really going for it.
Placed 3rd Dorothee Schneider showed also a top motivated Sammy Davis Jr, where she was performing with full risk for the extensions and series, and with only smaller issues with the change at X between the pirouettes where Sammy made a couple of extra changes.
Best outside the German top 6 was British Charlotte Fry with Dark Legend
First ever World Cup for young Charlotte Fry and with super result.
Dark Legend GBR - bit open halt, power balanced diagonal, nice flow and go for half passes, good halt with rein back, expressive diagonal, good passage, small lack of impuls into 1st piaffe, good piaffe, good extended walk, good collected walk, nice transition to passage, nice regular passage, good piaffe few steps on himself hind, good transition to canter, good 2 times, good extended canter, nice flow zigzag, good 1 times, tiny pirouettes, good transition to trot, nice diagonal, nice regular passage, good final piaffe.
Werth and Weihegold OLD - move timeline to 1.50.00 to watch their winning performance today
Next week with SICAB - all disciplines and finals for Spanish PRE horses
From 19 - 24 November the annual SICAB is held in Sevilla
If your passionate about the PRE horse, SICAB is for sure the place to visit. You will experience the pride of the Spanish breeders, the best of the breeding and also a lot of sport for the PRE horses. The recent years focus has been changed not just to make beautiful show horses, but also trying to develop the breeding more into sport horses.
There will be full live stream from the event at SICAB.tv
Link for all informations about SICAB here.
History
SICAB, the International Purebred Spanish Horse Trade Fair is the most important simple of PRE Horses in the world. It has been held in the city of Sevilla (Spain) since 1991, which makes it a reference on the national and international equestrian scene as it brings together PRE breeders and owners from more than sixty (60) countries.
SICAB is held annually during the third week of November. More than a thousand Purebred Spanish Horses from more than 300 national and international stud farms are entered in the many categories. Throughout the week, more than 200,000 people come to venue, which in turn, generate wealth for the city of Sevilla, thus making this experience the third most important events held in the city, behind Easter Week and the April Fair.
SICAB celebrates the World Purebred Spanish Horse Championship. To participate in this final, a horse will have had to qualify previously at any of the preliminary competitions held throughout the previous season. Likewise, this umbrella event is home of the ANCCE Cup for Dressage, Doma Vaquera, Spanish High School, Carriage Driving and Show Jumping, in addition to the Exhibition Competitions and the Equestrian Show. This latter is an eye-catching and impressive event thanks to the lights, sound and acrobatic movements of the many riders with the PRE Horses.
Source: SICAB
Schaufenster Der Besten - stallion licensing and auction started today
From today starts Schaufenster Der Besten with both stallion licensing and auction. You can follow the entire event via live stream at Clipmyhorse.
From the stallion collection there is one obvious champion from the video presentation - no 23 by Vitalis / Sir Donnerhall I.
Vitalis / Sir Donnerhall I
Friday
Saturday
Results from Trakehner licensing and auction
Kjento and Glock´s King Karim
This years first Dutch stallion competition took place at Kronenberg yesterday, and as always it is interesting to follow the young stallions and their development.
Among the 4 year old stallions which was the largest group of stallions for the stallion competition, there were specific two stallions which caught H2R attention, Van Olst Horses stallion Kjento by Negro / Jazz with Charlotte Fry and Glock´s King Karim by Glock´s Toto Jr / Painted Black which came 2nd and 3rd for the stallion competition. Both stallions quick movers off the ground showing super expression and power in all 3 gaits.
See the entire results from the first stallion competition here.
Winners from Kronenberg stallion competitions:
55.000 euro for most expensive HANN at Verdener Auction 9 November
Super strong Danish CDI3 Grand Prix Special at Blue Hors today
Blue Hors Zepter and Daniel Bachmann Andersen - photo credit: Thomas Bisgaard
Top top level for today’s CDI3 Grand Prix Special at Blue Hors in Denmark
A true pleasure to follow the Danish top riders today, showing so much potential for the future with top horses.
And today’s top horse is a horse with all 3 basic gaits, expression, power and suppleness, all put together for the demanding top sport. It was certainly not just top 3 showing top qualities.
H2R comments during the tests today:
Blue Hors Zepter DEN - super halt, good diagonal, well balanced uphill half pass left, good transition passage, good passage/extension, superb half pass right swinging uphill power, passage becomes sharper, good walk tour, small misunderstanding into 1st piaffe but well managed, nice 2 piaffe with good transitions, super canter half passes, super 2 times, small error hind parallel for 1 times, super sit and balance for both pirouettes, nice final small lack of forward search for final meters.
Blue Hors Zatchmo DEN - lack bit more steady halt, good diagonal, good half pass right, nice transition passage, need bit more let go for extension, good half pass left, good walk tour, bit cautious 1st piaffe, good passage, better 2nd piaffe, good transition to canter, error change between half passes, good series, super straight one times, super quality 1st pirouette, 2nd short neck into but nice balanced, good transition to trot, super nice final.
Heiline’s Danciera DEN - bit unbalanced halt hind, expressive diagonal, active supple half pass right, smooth in and out passage with lovely suspension, supple half pass left, trend 79,5%after trot! nice relaxed walk tour, good into 1st piaffe bit unbalanced steps, better balance for 2nd piaffe smooth transitions, good into canter, good half passes, super series, good extension, good pirouettes with nice timing, nice 1 times, easy transition to trot, super nice final bit forward final piaffe.
VIDEO - Anne Troensegaard with Trakehner gelding Kipling TSF winner of CDI3 Intermediaire I at Blue Hors
Kipling TSF and Kipling TSF - photo credit: H2R
Today Anne managed to keep Kipling focused all the way and showing a powerful and expressive test without any technical issues. Lovely balanced trot tour all the way, good walk and solid canter tour, showing a bit of tensions for some moments, but Anne manage to keep Kipling focused.
Impressive 77,324%!
VIDEOS - 🇩🇰CDI3 Grand Prix freestyle podium today at Blue Hors
Bakkely´s Onandt and Lone Bang Larsen
Enjoy the three Danish ladies in top of todays international Grand Prix freestyle.
🥇76,655% Bakkely´s Onandt and Lone Bang Larsen
🥈74,120% Rustique and Mai Tofte Olesen
🥉74,115% Aston Martin and Helene Melsen
See the full results here.
VIDEOS - Impressive Danish dominance for today's CDI3 Grand Prix at Blue Hors
Overall very strong tests from all Danish combinations with very few technical issues and also clearly reflected by the scoreboard with 7 combinations in the absolute top of the class, while just one Danish combination Mai Tofte Olesen and her long time Grand Prix partner finished just outside the placements today.
Enjoy the Danish combinations from 3rd place (No 1 and 2 are public in a separate news earlier today).
Thank you to Jørgen Konge for capturing all the videos. Saturday and Sunday Zibrasport will be live streaming from the entire event - price 99 dkr. (link available via H2R calendar).
VIDEOS - Super comeback for Blue Hors Zepter with Daniel Bachmann Andersen in today's CDI3 Grand Prix
Blue Hors Zepter and Daniel Bachmann Andersen - photo credit: Thomas Bisgaard
Totally 🇩🇰Danish dominance for tonights CDI3 Grand Prix at Blue Hors
As the class is still running the result is still not definite, but no one can touch Blue Hors Zepter and Daniel Bachmann in the leader position with impressive 78,717%. Zepter has been out of competition since last year in Stuttgart due to an injury but is fit for fight again showing a lot of high quality for today’s CDI3 Grand Prix, though a tiny bit rusty for the regularity of the passage tours, and for sure not asked for full power by Daniel.
The 8 year old Danish Warmblood mare Heiline´s Danciera with Carina Cassøe Krüth wants to play with the big ones, even though Danciera is still very inexperienced at this level, the test is shown with so much natural power and expression all the way, no technical issues and with just some tiny unbalanced moments for the piaffe tours. Seen from the sideline they looked even closer to Daniel than the scoreboard tells.
Today we saw two Danish Olympic combinations! Judge for yourself here below.
While the class is still missing the final combination it still looks like a pure international 🇩🇰night at Blue Hors with only Danish combinations in top 7!
VIDEO top 3 - Betina Jæger and Belstaff winner of national Grand Prix at Blue Hors today
Belstaff and Betina Jæger - photo credit: Thomas Bisgaard
VIDEO of top 3 - Young Alexander Helgstrand winner of national Prix Sct. Georg at Blue Hors today
Greven´s Sa´Va and Alexander Helgstrand - photo credit: Lily Forado
Grevens Sa´Va and Alexander Helgstrand 73,903%:
Franklin and Betina Jæger 73,202%:
Slæbækgårds Santino and Michael Søgaard 72,631%:
Placed combinations:
VIDEOS - Great national Intermediaire II debuts for both Blue Hors St. Schufro and Blue Hors Zee Me Blue
Nanna Merrald and Gørklintgårds Quater Boy - photo credit: H2R
The international CDI3 event at Blue Hors this weekend takes parallel place with a huge national event, where today was with Intermediaire II debut for more exciting combinations.
It was pure Blue Hors podium by Nanna Merrald with winner position for Gørklintgårds Quater Boy with 72,939%, 2nd place again for Nanna this time with her debut stallion Blue Hors St. Schufro with 72,894% and 3rd for another Inter II debut for Blue Hors Zee Me Blue with Daniel Bachmann Andersen.
Videos of top 3 from today’s Intermediaire II captured by Jørgen Konge. The entire class is available via Facebook “Heste arrangementer, oplevet af Jørgen Konge”.
Nanna Merrald with Gørklintgårds Quater Boy:
Nanna Merrald with Blue Hors St. Schufro:
Daniel Bachmann Andersen with Blue Hors Zee Me Blue:
See the entire results here.
OLD stallion licensing and auction comes up 21 - 23 November
39 stallions are selected for the licensing
As usual there is only presentation videos of the stallions for both licensing and auction.
Asgard´s Ibiza is at top of the list with 4 sons for the licensing.
Could be very valuable for everyone to have a look at all the possible new breeding stallions, and not just the ones available at the auction.
Nevertheless there has been a few public videos after the pre-selection and particular stallion caught H2R attention - he looks like a Champion.
HP Valentino by Vitalis - Apache - Fürst Romancier, bred by HP Horses and owned by Helgstrand Dressage.
H2R favorites for the auction:
See the collection of stallions for licensing and auction here.
World Cup entries for Stuttgart including young British Charlotte Fry with KWPN stallion Everdale
Charlotte Fry and Everdale - photo credit: Van Olst Horses
15 - 17 November with 3rd FEI World Cup leg at Stuttgart
CDI4 and World Cup entries:
