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  With the prize giving ceremony of Sezuan and Dorothee Schneider the first edition of the Longines World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses had a magnificent ending. Aat Both, chairman of the organising Foundation: We look back on a very successful first edition of the Longines World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses in […]

  He was already a two-fold world champion, and the Danish Warmblood-stallion again proved to be invincible in the first Longines World Breeding Dressage Championships for seven-year-old horses. With this result the Blue Hors Zack-offspring, bred by Linette Jaeger, made history in Ermelo. What an expression and what a power. Dorothee Schneider rode the black […]

  She received a 10 for perspective: Fiontini, the daughter of Fassbinder that was already crowned world champion in the previous edition. Also this year, the bay Danish Warmblood mare (dam’s sire Romanov) made a big impression with her incredible elasticity and balance. The by Hanne Lund and Hendrik Hansen bred eye-catcher Fiontini was presented […]

  The first edition of the Excellent Dressage Sales that was organised, with support of KWPN on the magnificently decorated terrains of the National Equestrian Centre, is one for the books. The KWPN-approved stallion Four Legends (s.Wynton) was the absolute top seller of the auction. The in-hand presented stallion was sold for 605.000 euro. The […]

  The Freestyle to Music for stallions of eight years and older was, just like the Prix St. George on Thursday, won by the Vivaldi-stallion Vitalis. Presented by the Norwegian rider Isabel Freese, he moved to the winning score of 74.542%. The beautifully modelled stallion moved with a lot of presence and showed an expressive […]

  Victoria’s Secret is the new bearer of the title world champion of the five-year-old dressage horses. “A real superstar,” says the chairman of the judges Francis Verbeek. Beatrice Buchwald convincingly steered the by Walther Schulte-Böcker bred mare, last year the champion at the Bundeschampionat for mares and geldings, to the victory at the National […]

  This morning the seven-year-old horses made their appearance in the small final to obtain one of the three wanted tickets for the final tomorrow. The Swedisch Ida-Linn Lundholm rode her Zenon-son Eclectisch to 76.178%, the winning score. Eclectisch is an amazing horse with a beautiful front. He was followed by Eastpoint and the Dutch […]

  The 27 six-year-olds that did not place themselves directly for the final yesterday, re-entered the arena this morning for the small final. In this class they competed for the last three tickets for the prestigious final that starts Sunday morning from 11.00hrs onwards. Bohemian (s.Bordeaux), Rock Forever II (s.Rockwell) and Fiera Girl (s.Faustinus) all […]

  Last year the national anthem was played for Fiontini, the daughter of Fassbinder that was followed in the rankings by her full sister Fiontina. Once again, Severo Jurado Lopez steered the quick mare to the highest score in the qualification round for the six-year-olds. With a 9.5 for the canter, a 9.2 for the […]