Charlotte Jorst likely to represent USA at the upcoming World Cup Final in Göteborg

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America’s three-time Olympic medalist Günter Seidel and senior championship rookie Charlotte Jorst are almost definite to represent the United States at the World Cup Final in Gothenburg, Sweden in three weeks.

Günter will ride Zero Gravity, a 12-year-old KWPN gelding that he has competed at Big Tour for a year, while Charlotte will take Kastel’s Nintendo, 13-year-old KWPN stallion she began competing in CDIs two years ago. Both are foreign-born, Günter was German and Charlotte was Danish.

Although the last World Cup event for the 2015/16 North American League circuit is scheduled for Wellington, Florida this week, the decisions by Laura Graves on Verdades and Steffen Peters on Legolas to forego the annual individual championship to focus on the Olympics took the top two combinations from the rankings. Other horses and riders that could challenge for a start are not entered in the Adequan Global Dressage Festival Grand Prix Freestyle.

Mikala Gundersen, a Danish team rider based in Wellington and ranked second in North America but is not a North American citizen, is also likely to be invited with My Lady as “an extra starting place.”

What great achievements by Danish Riders – we are looking forward to follow them in the coming weeks!

Russia enters the race for the Olympics with spectacular record scores from Inessa Merkulova

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Olympic Fever Rages as Final Competition Week for Olympic Qualification Begins 1 March 2016. All eyes went to Moscow this passed weekend, where the the biggest news was results from Moscow, where Inessa Merkulova scored 8% above her all time personal best.

At the 2016 CDI Moscow Inessa Merkulova RUS and Mister X receive their highest ever scores with an 82.204 in the Grand Prix and an 83.150 in the Freestyle, beating her previous highs of 74.46% and 81.375% achieved at the 2015 CDI Minsk last October. Inessa was already assured of winning the top Group C place so this did not change anything. But in the same competition Marina Aframeeva RUS and Vosk also blew away their previous highs with a 76.780 in the GP and a 78.430 in the Freestyle (previous records 71.900 and 75.630). That puts Marina into the second qualifying place for Group C with a net gain of 81 ranking points over the weekend putting her on 986 points today.

This has two effects, it knocks Beata Stremler of POL out of a qualifying place, though she will be competing in Dortmund this week; in addition, it puts pressure on the 6 top Olympic Ranking List (ORL) qualification places where Beata’s current 944 is very close to the 6th place score of 955. So Beata may be in contention for one of the 6 ORL places if she does not get the Group C place.

In Florida, Lars Petersen and Mariett DEN (Lars recently became a US citizen but is still competing for DEN) picked up points in the CDIW and is now at 955 points. This gives Denmark, at least for the moment, a 4-member team.

In Spain Goncalo Carvallo and Batuta climbed a few points to finish the weekend on 956 points, in the 4th ORL qualification place.

Lars Petersen shares 5th ORL place currently with Judy Reynolds IRL both on 955 points – which has now become the minimum ORL qualifying score. Judy competes in Doha this week and Lars may be competing in Florida. Lars entering the top 6 knocked Jorinde Verwimp BEL out of the top 6; both she and Jeroen Devroe will be competing in Lier this week looking to return to that top 6 and potentially give Belgium a 3-member team.

Status of the Olympic Summary:

Group A: Anna Kasprzak DEN 1090, and Mikala Gunderson DEN 1068
Group B: Victoria Max-Theurer AUT 1056 and Valentina Truppa ITA 1029
Group C: Inessa Merkulova RUS 1200 and Marina Aframeeva RUS 986
Group D: Megan Lane CAN 883
Group E: Yvonne Losos de MunizDOM) 639
Group F: Christian Zimmerman PLE 711
Group G: Julie Brougham NZL 805
ORL: Marcela Krinke Susmelj SUI 1005, Fanny Verliefden BEL 1000, Agnette Kirk Thinggaard DEN 989, Goncalo Carvalho POR 956, Judy Reynolds IRL 955 and Lars Petersen DEN 955.
Riders within 20 points of a qualifying score (on today’s standings): Jorinde Verwimp BEL 946, Beata Stremler POL 944, Jeroen Devroe BEL and Daniel Bachman Andersen DEN on 940 points. (Only one of Lars and Daniel can qualify as Denmark already has three “qualified”.)

These weeks are filled with top Sport! Two CDI3* and a CDI4* in Lier, CDI5*s in Dortmund and Doha, a CDIW in Wellington, and CDI3*s in Jerez de la Frontera, Hastings and Caselle di Sommacampagna

Source: Eurodressage

Live from Jerez: CDI 3* Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art

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The Dressage action at one of this seasons most spectacular and beautiful venues is on at the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art. In short, the CDI3* REAAE started this morning. The starter list have quite an international outlook! Matthias Rath, Sönke Rothenberger and Richard Davison were amongst todays winning combinations.

Warm-up-Arena-FREAAE

 Check results online on http://scores.topiberian.com/. 

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Premium DW stallion Skovens Rafael moves to Sweden

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Tullstorp Dressage Stable will station the Danish Warmblood stallion  Skovens Rafael (by Blue Hors Romanov – Don Schufro) in 2016.

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Read the full article in Swedish on Hippson.se

Werth Surprises with Weihegold and Wins 2016 CDI-W Amsterdam

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Isabell Werth created quite a stir when winning the seventh leg of the World Cup™ Dressage 2015/2016 Western European League at the sold-out RAI Arena in Amsterdam (NED) on Saturday 30 January 2016 with Weihegold. The lovely mare was competing in her very first international Freestyle, but in the hands of the 46-year-old German athlete who includes six Olympic gold medals and two World Cup titles amongst her career highlights, the 11-year-old horse posted a spectacular score in the early stages of the competition and could not be beaten.

The pair’s success was all the more remarkable for the fact that today’s class was of an exceptionally high standard, with top riders really raising their game in the battle for points towards the World Cup Final in Gothenburg (SWE) in March. Werth admitted afterwards that her victory was unexpected.

“It was a surprise because the Freestyle is really difficult here in this atmosphere in Amsterdam, and there was an outstanding field of competitors. You know how it is in Freestyle, we did not have the best starting order so I was not expecting to win, but at the end of our test I felt really sure and safe – I’m so very, very happy!” she said.

Read the full article on  eurodressage.com

Danish Olympian Lars Petersen Becomes a U.S. Citizen

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Danish Olympic dressage rider Lars Petersen has officially become an American citizen. Petersen took the oath of allegiance for naturalized citizens and was sworn in as a United States citizen on 4 February 2015.

“Words can not express how excited happy emotional and honored to announce that my wonderful husband is now an American Citizen,” said Lars’ American wife Melissa Taylor, addding, “Or what Hans-Henning Dressler called him “Ameridanski”.”

The Danish born Petersen represented his native country Denmark at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. The now 50-year old Lars Petersen moved to the U.S.A. in 2002. He was originally based at Irwin Le Pow’s yard in Virginia but quickly relocated to Florida. Petersen married U.S. FEI rider Melissa Taylor in Mountain Village, Colorado, on their skiing holiday in December 2013.

“Lars will continue to ride for Denmark while campaigning Mariett,” Taylor explained. “He will

definitely switch after that but their is a “sit down or wait period ” of 1 full year as per FEI rules.”

Enjoy the Falsterbo Horse Show Live Streaming

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Falsterbo is where tradition meets fashion and equestrian lifestyle. The area of Falsterbo has hosted equestrian games since 1920 and ever since, the event has just grown bigger and bigger, with new stands and facilities until it has taken the shape of what it is today, one of the best outdoor show grounds in the world. Falsterbo is always as much Horse as Show. With almost a thousand horses and riders, fifty different disciplines and over six hundred people working in the Falsterbo Horse Show crew, you soon realize Falsterbo Horse Show is not just an ordinary event. It is a lifestyle, a venue and above all, the week of the summer everyone is waiting for.

With the Falsterbo slogan ”As much Horse as Show” the level of expectations is set sky high. ”We are incredibly proud to make this investment in cooperation with the Falsterbo Horse Show”, says Eva Stub Fischer, Managing Director of DreamSports.tv.” This Live Stream TV production in Sweden is very important to us and we look forward to be bringing our audiences a total of 4 Falsterbo TV Channels starting from Wednesday the 8th and until the end of the event Sunday the 12th of July.

Join us for show, lifestyle and sports action

Nothing beats being at Falsterbo Horse Show watching all the sports action – and we will be right on the spot from Wednesday to Sunday. Every Evening – right after the Unbridled show we will bring you the ‘Best of Dressage’ where we will summarise the best riders and their performances during the day.

Join us to watch on 4 Channels

  1. Channel: Unbridled – The lifestyle show

  2. Channel: Dressage Live – competitions from the Dressage Arena

  3. Channel: Best of Falsterbo – Late evening compilation of the best of the Dressage and of the Unbridled Show

  4. Channel: Hunting and Cross Country Equestrian Driving – Wednesday afternoon equestrian sports action.