Press release
Championship 5-year-olds: “The battle is not over yet!”
Today the program of the Longines FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses continued with the second qualification for the five-year-olds. Similar to yesterday, the crowd could enjoy incredibly high-quality horses in the youngest age category. The top 3 of yesterday got competition from some seriously talented horses.
Qualifications 6-year-olds promises exciting finals
The intermediate ranking of the six-year-olds has a new leader: Feodoro with Simone Pearce. The Hannoverian Furstenball-son scored the first 10 of the six-year-olds today. His Australian rider is in the fourth position in the category for 5-year-olds with the Conen-descendant Casablanca (ds. Fidertanz) that also received a 10 for her powerful trot.
Participants final 7-year-olds established
The 15 participants in the final of the Longines FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses are rounded up! Besides the 12 combinations that directly qualified themselves yesterday, today’s top 3 also earned a starting ticket.
Lynne Maas and Electra also supreme in Freestyle
Tonight’s program included the CDI1* Freestyle to music, featuring the best 10 combinations of the yesterday’s Prix St. George. In a predominantly Dutch competitors field, yesterday’s winner, Lynne Maas and her KWPN-mare Electra (Jazz x Ferro), with which she recently was crowned Dutch national champion of the Small Tour, proved to be invincible once again.
Finja wins CDI1* Intermediate I
This morning the Intermediate I at the Longines FEI World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses was ridden. Robin van Lierop was not able to place himself for the final yesterday, but today he retaliated with his Finja (s.Flatley): with 71.009% he stayed ahead of all the other starts.
Auctioning on a world stage
Yesterday the presentation of the Excellent Dressage Sales took place. An enthusiastic crowd flocking to see it, watched the foals and riding horses show why they are part of the top collection of 2017.
