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Danish Daniel Bachmann Andersen for the second time qualified for the prestigious young horse Grand Prix series Louisdor Preis, for 8-10 year old horses.
Back in 2018 Daniel won the final with Blue Hors Veneziano, and this weekend he qualified once again. This time with the just 8 year old Danish Warmblood gelding Marshall-Bell by Blue Hors Don Romantic / Michellino, bred by Tina and Nicolai Jepsen and owned by CVL Horses.
It was the first ever competition for Marshall not being home for sleeping, so of course Daniel was very please about his first appearance at a big scene like Oldenburg this weekend.
Both the preliminary and today’s performance was with high quality piaffe and passage tours, and clearly more settled over all picture today, where Daniel unfortunately was thinking left instead of right when starting the test today. Well balanced trot tour, strong passage and piaffe tours with nice transitions and super timing, good walk, no technical issues for the canter but you still get the feeling of some “green” moments with a bit of tensions for the series and pirouettes.
Subsequently former international rider Heike Kemmer did a bit of comments about each test together with Kim Kreling at Clipmyhorse. Kemmer pointed ex out that it was a pleasure to see the rider reward/pat the young obedient horse after the very demanding exercises being thankful that the horse has been doing a great job. And Daniel did of course feel sorry for his own mistake at the beginning, but was really proud of Marshall as he was clearly more relaxed for today’s test than Thursday, and Daniel is full of hopes for the future with Marshall. “And obviously with such a young horse you need to support him as he is still not able to find the way all by himself”, tells Daniel.
Kim Kreling for the final question how Daniel was feeling about being independent and now with own business. “Business is running very well, we have a lot to do, and even more than before, but it is very nice doing my own business. I’m very happy I have really good horses and really nice clients, and I’m looking very much forward to the future with more horses educated by myself.”
Today’s results here. As today’s 2nd placed Katharina Hemmer with Signorina already qualified in Verden, Lena Waldmann and Grey Flanell will be 2nd qualified from today at Oldenburg.
Qualified for the final:
Hagen:
• Denoix PCH / Hubertus Schmidt 78,450 %
• Gino / Holga Finken 77,364 %
Bettenrode:
• Greek Air / Emma Kanerva 75,302 %
• First Romance / Dorothee Schneider 74,000 %
Verden:
• Beryll / Hubertus Schmidt 74,605 %
• Signorina / Katharina Hemmer 72,930 %
Elmlohe:
• Bonheur de la Vie / Sandra Nuxoll 74,860 %
• Hanami OLD / Sandra Nuxoll 73,791 %
Ising:
• Rockson / Uwe Schwanz 73,178 %
• Django / Sabine Rüben 69,767 %
Oldenburg:
• Marshall-Bell / Daniel Bachmann Andersen 74,767 %
• Grey Flanell / Lena Waldmann 70,186 %
Final in Frankfurt (17-20 December)