Blue Hors St. Schufro & Danish Nanna Merrald placed 2nd in today World Cup Grand Prix

Blue Hors St. Schufro back in great form after a busy breeding season

Last time Nanna was showing St. Schufro was back in April in Hagen. Today they showed a beautiful test with lots of power and expression with lightness and in a beautiful frame all the way.

Blue Hors St. Schufro & Nanna Merrald - Nice halt but tiny tension hind before halt, power diagonal, super crossing uphill balanced half passes, SUPERB halt with rein back, lovely diagonal, nice into passage, good passage, tiny forward flow piaffe super sit, good transitions, nice relaxation for extended walk, super collected walk, at the letter for passage, small tensions for piaffe bit travel forward, super into canter, tiny swing big 2 times, power extended canter, nice zigzag, super 1 times, huge sit and balance for 1st pirouette, tiny tension for 2nd pirouette, nice into trot, expressive diagonal, lovely passage, bit forward final piaffe, nice transitions, good halt.

Today´s winner Frederic Wandres and Bluetooth OLD has become a very strong combination. The way Frederic is able to motivate and keep his horses supple and happy, has really become his thing. From the beginning of Bluetooth career he never look like the top horse he has developed into now. The timing for showing the power and at the same time the way Frederic is able to bring Bluetooth back on the hindlegs is the way of really nice dressage.

Bluetooth OLD - Good halt, power balanced diagonal, nice side picture, good half passes uphill, super halt with rein back, super diagonal, back for transition into passage super, nice passage, nice transitions, bit travel piaffe, nice passage, could show bit longer frame for extended walk, super collected walk, need bit sharper transition at M, good passage, bit travel piaffe, nice into passage, nice into canter, good 2 times, good extended canter, nice balanced zigzag bit late final change, good 1 times, both pirouettes need more sit parallel hind 2nd at the end, good into trot, power diagonal, lovely back on hind leg for transition, nice passage, super into piaffe, active passage, nice into steady final halt.

Emmelie and Indian Rock shows many great things, but at the same time Indian Rock seems to lack more clear power from behind which becomes an issue for a few times for today´s performance.

French Pauline Basquin with Sertorious de Rima took everyone with storm at the Europeans, and today they were back in good form, not quite as sharp and expressive as in Riesenbeck, but really likeable presentation in a way of riding everyone appriciate to watch.

For Kittel the piaffe tours were not as settled as we´ve seen them recently with Forever Young, and some tensions and backwards trend kept them from higher marks today.

Morgan Barbancon has with Habana Libre a very nice successor for Sir Donnerhall II. Lovely side picture just missing the last security and flow for the piaffe tours.

Florine OLD and Bianca showed a solid performance where the judges went very high at the beginning of the test, but overall some good work but missing a bit more expression and power.

For both Quater Back Junior and Flambeau today´s performances were successful eventhough with a few minor mistakes but both kept focused on the job without big tensions.

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