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.
