Dorothee Schneider with both winner and second position today - photo @clipmyhorse
The prestigious finals takes place at Schafhof in Kronberg this year
For both Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final and Louisdor Preis 12 finalists were ready for this very speciel 2020 edition. Everything adjusted according to the corona restrictions and for this event only the rider and one person per horse were allowed.
No coincidence that Dorothe Schneider actually has 3 horses qualified for the finals, but just allowed to start two. And from watching today’s “warm-up” class Sisters Act MD OLD look like the clear winner even though she was pretty close with her second finalist Villeneuve at the scoreboard.
Danish co-owned HANN stallion Fürsten-Look with Isabel Freese showed a solid test unfortunately with some technical issues today.
Full results here.
Click at the photo below to watch Dorothee Schneider and Sisters Act MD OLD winner performance.
The winner of Louisdor Preis final is still open
Louisdor Preis final is a difficult task for the young Grand Prix horses, and from just some tiny tensions the demanding test becomes quite difficult in order to keep it all together, focus, strength and accuracy. Today’s absolute highlights were presented by Sandra Nuxoll. Both horses showed top qualities, lovely frame and not least eager to work and performe. Sandra Nuxoll is for sure not Mrs. no name in the sport as she also spotted and produced three international top horses Delaunay OLD (Patrik Kittel), Stand by Me (Lisa Müller) and Destiny OLD (Kristina Bröring-Sprehe).
Bonheur de la Vie & Sandra Nuxoll
Good halt, bit running diagonal, bit unbalanced half passes to right, lovely passage, active piaffe off the ground, nice transitions, good short diagonal, nice into expressive passage, super nice 2nd piaffe tiny forward, sharp out into expressive passage, good relaxed extended walk, good collected walk, medium canter need more volume, good 1st pirouette, good 2 times, well managed 2nd pirouette, super 1 times, easy into trot, super passage, tiny forward trend for piaffe, super passage.
Danish Warmblood represented with two horses
The clear Danish combination Danish Warmblood gelding Marschall-Bell by Blue Hors Don Romantic/Michellino (bred by Tina and Nicolai Jepsen) with Danish Daniel Bachmann Andersen showed a nice test, some minor tensions today and no major issues and finished as 4th like Danish Warmblood gelding Rockson by Blue Hors Rockefeller/Sorento (breeder Anette Nilausen and Niels Jørgen Johansen) with German rider Uwe Schwanz also with some minor tensions today (finished 7th). Both Danish horses can for sure jump up the ranking for tomorrow´s finals.
Marschall-Bell & Daniel Bachmann Andersen:
Good halt, good power for medium trot, need bit more uphill for half passes, active hind for passage, small distrub in piaffe good at the spot, nice passage, bit unbalanced piaffe, good transition out into expressive passage, good relaxed extended walk, bit hurried collected walk, good medium canter, nice half pass, lost balance pirouette, good 2 times need bit more uphill, very nice 2nd pirouette, good 1 times bit tense, nice into trot, good passage small lack of impuls into piaffe, good passage, nice halt.
Full results here.