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‘His welfare is our top priority’: Olympic medallist withdraws from key World Cup event owing to colic

Polly Bryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:57:12 +0000

The USA’s top-ranked dressage combination, Adrienne Lyle and Salvino, have been forced to withdraw from this weekend’s World Cup qualifier in Wellington, Florida, after the 16-year-old Sandro Hit stallion suffered a “colic episode”.

Salvino and Adrienne, who are currently ranked eighth and 10th in the world respectively, were members of the US team who won silver at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. They also finished sixth individually at the World Dressage Championships in 2022.

They have proved to be on top form throughout the 2022/23 World Cup season so far, having won both qualifiers they have contested, scoring over 83% in each grand prix freestyle performance. A third victory this weekend at the Global Dressage Festival would have secured them a place at the World Cup Final, in Omaha, USA, in April.

“Unfortunately we have to withdraw Salvino from this week’s CDI-W competition. He is doing ok but had a colic episode and we don’t want to push him to go today,” said Adrienne.

“His welfare is always our top priority, so we will be packing up our tackroom set-up and heading home, but we wish the best of luck to all the other competitors and will be there to cheer them on.”

Adrienne is currently sixth in the World Cup standings for the North American League, with three spots available, and one more qualifier before the final, at Wellington in March.

The current league leader is Steffen Peters, who looks to have secured a ticket to Omaha with his Olympic team horse Suppenkasper, with Alice Tarjan and Sarah Tubman vying for places just behind him on the leaderboard. Adrienne is 20 points adrift of Steffen, and would have been hoping to draw level with him in the rankings with another qualifier win.

The World Cup qualifier gets under way with 13 combinations set to contest the grand prix today (9 February). Among the line-up is Britain’s Susan Pape with Harmony’s Eclectisch, as well as British-based Singaporean duo Caroline Chew and Tribiani.

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British entries revealed for 2022 dressage World Championships

Polly Bryan — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:42:40 +0000

The British entries for the dressage World Championships have been announced.

British Equestrian and the British Dressage selectors have revealed the eight horse and rider combinations on the list of nominated entries, from which the team of four that will compete in Herning, Denmark (5-14 August) will be chosen.

In alphabetical order by surname, the combinations are:

Richard Davison with 16-year-old gelding Bubblingh

Owner: Richard Davison and Gwendolyn Sontheim

Breeder: Richard Davison (GBR)

Breeding: by Lingh, out of Ballaseyr Royale/Matajo by Picandt

Charlotte Dujardin with nine-year-old gelding Imhotep

Owner: Carl Hester and Coral Ingham

Breeder: Tineke Huizing (NED)

Breeding: by Everdale, out of Della D’Ottie, by Vivaldi

Lottie Fry with 13-year-old stallion Everdale

Owner: Van Olst Horses

Breeder: Piet Kluytmans (NED)

Breeding: by Lord Leatherdale, out of Aliska K, by Negro

Lottie Fry with 11-year-old stallion Glamourdale

Owner: Van Olst Horses

Breeder: Joop Rodenburg (NED)

Breeding: by Lord Leatherdale, out of Thuja, by Negro

Gareth Hughes with 16-year-old mare Classic Briolinca

Owner: Gareth Hughes, his wife Rebecca and daughter Ruby, and Julia Hornig

Breeder: Febr van der Steen (NED)

Breeding: by Trento B, out of Trolinca, by Royal Dance

Gareth Hughes with 12-year-old gelding Sintano Van Hof Olympia

Owner: Gareth Hughes and Judy Firmston-Williams

Breeder: Iris and Henk Poettgens (NED)

Breeding: by Sandro Hit, out of P.Siltana Van Hof Olympia, by Silvano

Susan Pape with 13-year-old stallion Harmony’s Eclectisch

Owner: Susan Pape and Harmony Amateur Sports Foundation

Breeder: Fam Andeweg (NED)

Breeding: by Zenon, out of Tiranja, by Olivi

Laura Tomlinson with 12-year-old gelding Fallatijn

Owner: Laura Tomlinson and her mother Ursula Bechtolsheimer

Breeder: J.G. Damen (NED)

Breeding: by Vivaldi, out of Utraginia Van Kairos, by Cabochon

As part of the dressage World Championships British entries, two reserve combinations have also been named as follows (in alphabetical order):

Lara Butler with 17-year-old gelding Kristjan

Owner: Laura Tomlinson and her mother Ursula Bechtolsheimer

Breeder: Ursula Bechtolsheimer (GBR)

Breeding: by Polarion, out of Kardinale, by Napoleon Quatre

Lottie Fry with 14-year-old gelding Dark Legend

Owner: Lottie Fry and Van Olst Horses

Breeder: Fam Nobus de Potter (NED)

Breeding: by Zucchero, out of Zoe, by Tango

The names of the grooms for each horse will be included in the final squad announcement.

One notable omission from the list of British nominated entries is Carl Hester, who will be absent from a British championship team for the first time since 2008. Carl lacks a fit, qualified ride following an injury sustained by his Tokyo Olympic horse En Vogue earlier this year, and a lack of qualification opportunities with other rides.

Teamwork makes the dream work for Harmony Sporthorses at the Global Dressage Festival

Sarah Eakin — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 20:23:06 +0000

Holland’s Luuk Mourits added to Harmony Sporthorses’ string of successes this season at the Global Dressage Festival, with his first international win yesterday aboard Harmony’s Sarotti OLD in the prix st georges CDI3*.

Luuk is one of a trio of international riders who winter in Wellington at the barn of Harmony owners Leslie and John Malone’s Four Winds Farm. His colleagues are Britain’s Susan Pape and Germany’s Michael Klimke, who has trained Luuk for some seven years.

“Overall, I must say we had the most successful season for Harmony Sporthorses,” said Michael. “We are a good team together, we all help each other. Teamwork makes the dream work.”

Luuk, 31, was the only non-American rider in the field and scored 71.147% with a high mark of more than 74% from judge Kurt Christensen.

“For me, it’s very special,” said Michael. “Next year Luuk will ride his first grand prix. He is one of the hardest workers – all day long he’s thinking about his horses. He’s really working hard for success. He started as a young horse rider to break horses in, some years ago. Then last year we heard the national anthem for the Netherlands in the stadium [at the Global Dressage Festival] – that gave us all goosebumps.”

Susan’s three horses in the mix were Harmony’s Eclectic, Harmony’s V-Plus, and Harmony’s Giulilanta. Susan had a notable season in Wellington with an exceptional showing in week three when she won the grand prix special CDI4* with Harmony’s Eclectisch posting a personal best. She then claimed a national prix st georges win on Harmony’s V-Plus. She also won on Harmony’s Giulilanta in the intermediate I CDI1*, with a test peppered with eights that handed victory to the 11-year-old Jazz daughter.

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Michael meanwhile led Germany to victory in the Nations Cup aboard Harmony’s Sanrino RHP, a 13-year-old Oldenburg Stallion, with whom he has a significant connection. “He is really special,” said Michael. “I’m very optimistic with the horses that I have – the grand prix horses, but also the horses that are close to grand prix.”

Michael has been with the Malones and Harmony Sporthorses for 20 years, step by step, investing time in building up the horses to grand prix level. “Long-term relationships are one of the many secrets of success,” he said.

Eight British combinations longlisted for the European Dressage Championships

Polly Bryan — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:01:55 +0000

British Equestrian and the British Dressage selectors have put forward eight pairs as longlisted entries for the FEI European Dressage Championships, in Hagen, Germany, on 7-12 September.

The squad of four combinations, plus reserves, will be announced on or around 20 August.

Those longlisted, in alphabetical order, are:

Fiona Bigwood with Penny Bigwood’s and her own Hawtins Delicato
Charlotte Dujardin with Renai Hart, Carl Hester’s and her own Gio
Emile Faurie with Theodora Livanos’ and his own Dono Di Maggio OLD
Lottie Fry with Van Olst Horses’ and her own Dark Legend and Everdale
Carl Hester with Sandra Biddlecombe, Charlotte Dujardin, Lady Anne Evans’ and his own En Vogue
Gareth Hughes with Judy Firmston-Williams’ and his own Sintano Van Hof Olympia
Laura Tomlinson with Ursula Bechtolsheimer’s and her own DSP Rose of Bavaria

Two reserve combinations have also been named:

Richard Davison with Gwendolyn Meyer’s and his own Bubblingh
Susan Pape with Harmony Sporthorses’ and her own Harmony’s Eclectisch

British Under-25 Dressage European Championship entries

The Under-25 European Dressage Championships will also be held in Hagen over the same week, and six British combinations have been longlisted, with the squad of three or four pairs, plus reserves, announced on or around 20 August.

Lucy Amy with Richard Amy’s Rudy
Lewis Carrier with his own Diego V
Dylan Deutrom with Matt Hicks and Sarah Warry’s Sunlit Uplands
Alex Harrison with his own Diamond Hill
Alicia Lee with her own Bonita 466
Ellie McCarthy with Spencer McCarthy’s GB Londero V Worrenberg

All selection decisions are subject to the athletes and horses maintaining fitness and performance.

Nine named as Britain’s nominated dressage entries for Tokyo Olympics

Polly Bryan — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:47:42 +0000

The nine combinations who have been submitted to the FEI as the British Olympic dressage entries have been announced.

British Equestrian and the British Dressage selectors have confirmed that the following pairs will be put forward to the FEI as nominated entries for the Tokyo Games. The four combinations who will travel to Tokyo – a team of three plus an alternate – will be chosen from this list, and will be announced, along with reserves, on 28 June.

Fiona Bigwood with her own and Penny Bigwood’s 13-year-old gelding Hawtins Delicato, groom Heidi Troniseck
Richard Davison with his own 15-year-old gelding Bubblingh, groom Heidi Troniseck
Charlotte Dujardin with Emma and Jill Blundell and Carl Hester’s 12-year-old mare Mount St John Freestyle, groom Alan Davies
Emile Faurie with Theodroa Livanos and his own 14-year-old gelding Dono Di Maggio, groom Victoria Richards
Charlotte (Lottie) Fry with Van Olst Horses and her own 12-year-old stallion Everdale, groom Steven Caley
Carl Hester with Sandra Biddlecombe, Charlotte Dujardin, Lady Anne Evans and his own 12-year-old gelding En Vogue, groom Lucy Scudamore
Gareth Hughes withJudy Firmston-Williams and his own 11-year-old gelding Sintano Van Hof Olympia, groom Steph Hughes
Susan Pape with Harmony Sporthorses and her own 12-year-old stallion Harmony’s Eclectisch, groom Greta Heemsoth
Laura Tomlinson with Ursula Bechtolsheimer and her own 11-year-old mare DSP Rose Of Bavaria, groom Bea Snudden-Burnham

In addition to the nine British Olympic dressage entries, three nominated reserve entries have also been named:

Charlotte Dujardin with Renai Hart, Carl Hester and her own 10-year-old Gio (direct reserve)
Charlotte (Lottie) Fry with Van Olst Horses and her own 13-year-old gelding Dark Legend (direct reserve)
Gareth Hughes with Claudine Kroll, Jessica Kroll, Martin Kroll and his own 12-year-old stallion KK Dominant (non-direct reserve)

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British Equestrian adds that “selection decisions are subject to the athlete and horse maintaining fitness and performance, and this list may be amended at any point up to 21 June 2021.”

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‘He tries his heart out – I just hang on for the ride’: Canadian pair dominate in Wellington

Polly Bryan — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:25:54 +0000

A personal best score earned Canada’s Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu and All In last week’s World Cup victory at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival (GDF) in Wellington.

Brittany and the 16-year-old Tango son claimed the grand prix with 73.7% – “probably our best grand prix to date” – before topping the grand prix freestyle, presented by Helgstrand Dressage, with 79.33%.

The 2021 GDF has marked the pair’s first international appearence since September 2019, and Brittany admitted she was “a little nervous” ahead of competing on the Wellington dressage circuit.

“All In has come out this season and really proven that he knows his job so well,” she said. “He tries his heart out for me every time we go down the centre line, and I just have to hang on for the ride. I’m ecstatic with him.”

‘We have a strong team for Canada’

Montreal-based Brittany’s freestyle programme was created by Joost Peters, featuring music by French Canadian Celine Dion.

“This was only the second time I have ridden to this new freestyle. I love Celine Dion, my husband is French…and I love the song, so I asked [Joost] to incorporate it into the beginning and the end,” explained Brittany, who competed All In for Canada at the World Equestrian Games in 2018.

Her flowing test was mistake-free, featuring punchy extended trots straight up the centre line and multiple piaffe pirouettes. After this win, Brittany has set her sights on the World Cup Final in April in Gothenburg, and is also targeting the Tokyo Olympics with All In.

“If Tokyo happens, I think we will have a very strong team for Canada,” she said.

British dressage success in Wellington

The GDF also hosted a CDI3* alongside the World Cup qualifier, and here it was another Candian rider, Lindsay Kellock who dominated. Lindsay and the 15-year-old Sandro Hit son Sebastien won the grand prix special, having finished second in the grand prix to te USA’s Nick Wagman and Don John.

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British rider Susan Pape claimed third place in both classes, riding the 12-year-old Zenon stallion Harmony’s Eclectisch. This brings the pair’s tally of top-three placings in Wellington up to six since the start of this year.

The GDF continues with a CDI5* show this month and the next World Cup qualifier in early March.

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Four-time Olympian extends his run of dressage glory in Wellington

Polly Bryan — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 17:36:29 +0000

Steffen Peters continued his winning streak from 2020 into 2021 when he claimed his 17th consecutive international victory at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival (GDF) in Wellington, Florida.

Steffen rode his Tokyo Olympics team hopeful Suppenkasper to a solid win in the CDI4* grand prix special on 30 January. The pair, who are unbeaten in international competition since 2019, posted 75.77%, with just a mistake in the one-time changes pulling their marks down.

The 13-year-old Spielberg son, who is owned by Akiko Yamazaki and Four Winds Farm, was Steffen’s ride at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina, where he helped the USA team claim silver on home soil. Their scores have remained consistently high over the past two years, helping put them firmly in contention for a berth at the Tokyo Olympics later this year, where it will be the grand prix special will determine the team medals.

“The grand prix special is always my favourite test,” said Steffen after his latest win in Wellington. “It has those beautiful transitions from extended trot to passage, and then the half-passes are a little easier to ride, so there was a bit more of a throttle there with ‘Mopsie’ today because he was so relaxed.

“I really thought I had him there for the one tempis – I really collected him on the short side, and then I risked it a little and it was just a tad too much, so we had a small mistake,” added the four-time Olympian. “But he’s done five shows in a row without a single mistake, and at the end of the day I am human, and they’re horses and not machines, so those things happen.”

The pair will next be in action in the GDF’s CDI5* show at the end of February.

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Steffen finished ahead of runners-up Charlotte Jorst (USA) and Kastel’s Nintendo, who posted 72.04%. Meanwhile Britain’s Susan Pape slotted into eighth position with 67.51% on Harmony’s Eclectisch.

Germany-based Susan has enjoyed plenty of success so far this year on the Florida circuit with this 11-year-old Zenon x Olivi stallion; they finished runners-up to Steffen and Suppenkasper in the first CDI3* leg of the GDF last month.

They were also second in January’s World Cup grand prix behind the USA’s Olivia Lagoy-Weltz and Rassing’s Lonoir, who went on to top the freestyle qualifier with 81.54% – one of very few World Cup qualifiers to have taken place this season.