Fiontini and Severo Jurado Lopez during this years Danish selection for WCYH at Broholm. Photo credit: H2R.
Young horses for the Danish finals
Lots of top young horses will participate at the finals. Among them triple World Champion for Young Horses Danish Warmblood mare Fiontini with Severo Jurado Lopez. The updated lists of participants are online here with their scoring from the qualifikations.
This weekends Swedish Breeders Trophy also included British judge Isobel Wessels. When she was doing the comments for the public, she was explaning both the positive things and the not so positive things about the horse, and made the whole championships even more interesting to follow.
Unfortunately the Danish national federation has chosen not to add any foreign judges to be part of the judging teams for the finals. The Danish judges for the finals are:
- Friday 7 yr old preliminary test - Kirsten Søgaard (judge) and Ole Hummelshøj (pro rider)
- Friday 4 yr old preliminary round - Niels Erik Bøckmann (judge) and Dennis Holst (pro rider) (Anne Mette Binder announcer for the riders)
- Saturday 5 yr old preliminary test - Lene Ejby Christiansen (judge) and Dorthe Rohmann (pro rider)
- Saturday 6 yr old preliminary test - Kirsten Søgaard (judge) and Allan Hansen (pro rider)
- Sunday - all finals - Susanne Baarup Christensen, Kurt Christensen (judges), Dennis Fisker (pro rider).
For all preliminary rounds and finals Bjarne Nielsen will be part of the judging teams as a representative for Danish Warmblood.
Live stream Saturday and Sunday
Both Saturday and Sundays classes will be avilable via live stream at Zibrasport for just 11 euro for both days.
All links including links for start lists, results and live stream will be available at H2R calendar.
Notes from H2R
2017 finals are with a new concept for the Danish Young Horse Championships. This year there is no 2nd round before the finals. Right now this part seems to be missing, especially when watching back from the 1st rounds where there has not been at least one judge from each team to judge all qualifications.
And the 2nd qualifier was actually also a part where you still could give your young horse even more experience and a possible ticket for the final, even though not having qualities for the podium.
And going to the final without having the possibility to qualify through a small final is not really the best way for a final. Often you see young horses with high tensions for the 1st round, getting much more settled via the small final being able to show their best, and getting another chance to qualify for the final.
Last and not least the Danish riders, breeders, owners and audience would all benefit from having foreign international eyes for the finals for their top youngsters.