Category: Dressage News

Reigning Olympic, World Cup and European champions, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and the spectacular mare TSF Dalera BB, topped the podium at the seventh leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League at the Longines CHI Classics in Basel, Switzerland today. This was their second victory in a row at the annual Swiss fixture, and it was compatriots Isabell Werth (Emilio) and Matthias Alexander Rath (Destacado FRH) who filled second and third places ahead of Austria’s Florian Bacher (Fidertraum OLD) in fourth. The winning pair produced a fabulous…

Great Britain’s Charlotte Fry and her Tokyo 2020 Olympic ride, Everdale, were convincing winners of the sixth leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League in Mechelen, Belgium. Scoring 84.980 they pipped The Netherlands’ Marlies van Baalen and Habibi DBV for top spot, while two rising stars – Belgium’s Flore de Winne with Flynn FRH and Germany’s Rapahel Netz with Great Escape Camelot – filled third and fourth places. The event attracted a truly international line-up, with Singapore’s Caroline Chew (Blue Hors Zatchmo) and India’s Anush Agarwalla…

With all the authority that she carries as the most consistently successful athlete in the sport of Dressage, Germany’s Isabell Werth strutted to victory with Emilio at the third leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League in Stuttgart (GER) on Saturday. In a competition in which multiple rising stars and established performers produced combination-best results, it all came down to Werth’s last-to-go ride, and she aced it with confidence and style.  Emilio was in the zone from the first beat of their musical score. There was…

Germany’s Frederic Wandres steered Bluetooth OLD to victory in the second leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2022/2023 Western European League in France where Denmark’s Nanna Skodborg Merrald and Blue Hors St Schufro finished second ahead of Pauline Basquin and Sertorius de Rima Z IFCE from France in third. The previous day’s Grand Prix class saw Wandres also pipping Skodborg Merrald by almost a full three percentage-point margin, however, it was a closer contest this time around with the judge panel awarding a score of 83.415 to the winning…

19th PanAm Games Santiago 2023 (CHI) – Dressage. Written by Louise Parkes Ecuador’s Julio Mendoza Loor is not a man to hide his emotions, and his smile was a mile wide when he was crowned individual Dressage champion today at the Pan American Games in Quillota, Chile. This was his country’s first Dressage gold medal in the 72-year history of the Games, and partnering the lovely Dutch-bred gelding Jewel’s Goldstrike he produced a fabulous Freestyle performance for a mark of 87.230 that proved impossible to beat when third-last to go.  “I…

Everything Horse Magazine 19th PanAm Games – Santiago 2023, written by Louise Parkes After the intense excitement of The Team competition during the 19th PanAm Games, in which the USA took gold and Brazil and Canada claimed silver and bronze along with qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, attention has turned to the individual Dressage Freestyle title-decider at the Pan American Games 2023 in Quilotta, Chile. The second horse inspection took place this morning, and 20 horse-and-rider combinations from 10 countries will come before judges Carlos Lopes (POR), Michael…

Team USA hold the lead after the opening day of Dressage at the Pan American Games 2023 in Quillota, Chile today. But a super test from the last man into the ring, João Victor Marcari with Feel Good VO, saw Brazil overtake Canada for second place going into tomorrow’s second day of action. Marcari heads the individual leaderboard with the biggest score of the day, 76.478, while a personal-best of 76.065 leaves defending individual champion Sarah Tubman from the USA in second place with First Apple. Another Brazilian, Renderson Silva…

FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023-2024 Western European League – written by Louise Parkes Three athletes from the Danish team that clinched bronze at the recent FEI Dressage European Championship 2023 in Riesenbeck, Germany will be in action when the first leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League gets underway on their home ground in Herning (DEN) next week. Nanna Skodborg Merrald, who also took Grand Prix Special silver in Riesenbeck, Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Andreas Helgstrand will be joined by compatriots Anna Kasprzak, Nadja Aaboe Sloth, Anna…

FEI Dressage European Championship 2023, written by Louise Parkes Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB reclaimed the Dressage Freestyle title on the thrilling closing day of the FEI Dressage European Championship 2023 in Riesenbeck (GER) on Sunday. Great Britain’s Lottie Fry and the fabulous stallion Glamourdale pushed the reigning Olympic and defending European champions von Bredow-Werndl and her magical mare all the way to the line to take silver, while fellow-Briton and triple Olympic gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin stepped up to bag the bronze with Imhotep. Highly-anticipated A…

FEI Dressage European Championship 2023, Written by Louise Parkes Great Britain took the early lead in the team standings on the opening day of the FEI Dressage European Championship 2023 in Riesenbeck, Germany today. A breathtaking Grand Prix performance from 56-year-old veteran Carl Hester with his relatively new ride, the 13-year-old gelding Fame, earned 78.540 for the biggest score of the day, giving his country a narrow advantage over Germany in second place while Denmark slotted into third. Austria and Spain, both fighting for one of the three team spots…

Organisers of this year’s The London International Horse Show (2023) have announced an exciting addition to the LeMieux Masterclass Series; ‘Dressage Unwrapped’ featuring World Eventing Champion, Yasmin Ingham, who was part of the British team to win a European gold medal earlier this month.  The Masterclass will take place in the New Horizon Plastics London Arena – a new arena being introduced at the 2023 Show – on Thursday 14 December and aims to provide both amateurs and experienced riders with Dressage tips and tricks that riders can put into…

FEI WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses 2023 – Ermelo (NED) Written by Louise Parkes The Longines FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses 2023 came to a close yesterday at Ermelo in The Netherlands after four spectacular days of sport and the crowning of a whole new generation of champions. A total of 129 talented young horses lined out in the three age categories which were each hotly contested.  The DWB mare Quinn G. took the Five-Year-Old crown while the KWPN gelding My Toto topped the…

British Equestrian announces definite entries for FEI Para Dressage European Championship 2023 British Equestrian and the British Dressage para selectors can today confirm the four horse and rider combinations that will form their list of definite entries ahead of the FEI Para Dressage European Championship, set to take place in Riesenbeck, Germany, from 5–10 September this year. Nominated entries, listed by grade then in alphabetical order by athlete surname: Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 5 The two travelling grooms who will support the squad in Riesenbeck are Liz Geldard and Beth…

Hawtins Stud rider, Lucinda Elliot, has become Cathedral Equine’s first sponsored rider, whom good friend and renowned dressage rider Lara Edwards founded in 2019. Already a fan of the Cathedral Equine range of bridles, Lucinda jumped at the chance to represent the brand that she is passionate about, with her horses now training and competing in the stunning bridles. Said Lucinda: “I really liked the thought process behind what Lara has done with Cathedral Equine, to produce great quality bridles. They fit really well with no tightness around any pressure…

FEI Dressage Nations Cup 2023, by Catie Staszak The podium looked nearly identical in the FEI Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special as Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain battled for top honors in the FEI Dressage Nations Cup at Aachen (GER), and as the start list reached its end in the Special, only the top two athletes in the FEI Dressage World Ranking remained—Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (GER) and Charlotte Fry (GBR). The reigning individual Olympic and FEI Dressage World Cup Champions, von Bredow-Werndl and DSF Dalera BB took their second victory…

Carl Hester claimed 1st and 2nd in the Somerford Park Premier League Dressage Grand Prix sponsored by LeMieux on Saturday, May 27th with the super-talented Fame (77.98%) and his Tokyo ride En Vogue (74.54%). Fresh from success at Hickstead and proving back on top form after a rest from competition in 2022, Carl commented: “They’re very ‘goey’ horses, that’s how I would describe them, they’re brilliant horses to ride, I’m so lucky to have two horses to ride of this calibre, especially at this stage in my life!” On his…