Successful weekend for Swedish Therese Nilshagen
As premier for the outdoor season Therese Nilshagen lately brought both Dante Weltino OLD and La Vie for Horses & Dream in Hagen.
This weekend both stallions were ready again, and this time in the absolute top of the field.
For the CDI5* Grand Prix Therese and Dante were only beaten by a very sharp Duke of Britain with Frederic Wandres, but for the Grand Prix Special the 16 year old stallion with Therese in the saddle took the victory. Frederic and Duke took the freestyle victory.
It is always a pleasure to watch the powerful Dante Weltino OLD together with Therese Nilshagen they have build a strong partnership over the years and Therese knows exactly where she has him, also judged from watching them at the warm-up in Hagen focusing on relaxation and gymnastics without any presure before performing in the ring.
For the Grand Prix Special:
Power balanced trot/passage/extensions, trending 77%, good walk, direct into 1st piaffe, tiny unbalance out of piaffe tours, nice series, good pirouettes, 2nd best, error change for extended canter, strong final. 75,043%
8 year old Hannoveraner stallion La Vie ready for the task
As both 5 year old and 6 year old La Vie and Therese qualified for the Bundeschampionate and he made his debut at St. Georg level with 73%. Today they took the victory for the prestigious Nürnberger Burg-Pokal qualifier with 75,073%
Lot of power, expression and quality for the trot tour, supple with go and flow, very good walk tour, nice supple over the back with good relaxation, nice collected walk with good walk pirouettes, for the canter tour he sometimes looks a bit stallion like for the aides, but Therese manage also to show the canter without any technical issues, tiny lost balance for 1st canter pirouette.
