HJN Content posted on August 22nd, 2006

RACE TO MAUI HEATS UP

BURBANK, CA - For the third year in a row, Langer Equestrian Group, Inc. is awarding week long vacations at a premier resort in Maui to professional horsemen. “I really wanted to offer a meaningful award to professionals,” said company president, Larry Langer. “I was a professional horseman for many years, and I personally know how hard trainers work.” Winners receive an eight day stay at the stunning Maui Marriott Ocean Resort situated on Ka’anapali Beach. (Read on…)

German team takes the lead in the Grand Prix

After the first half of the Grand Prix, the German dressage team is holding a comfortable lead of almost five percent. Heike Kemmer achieved the best result of the day (75.792 percent) with her 13-year-old Hanoverian gelding, Bonaparte, in the Nation’s Cup, the team classification. Hubertus Schmidt had already “contributed” to the result in the morning with a score of 69.208 percent. (Read on…)

First anthems for Spain and France - Best Condition Prize for Arabian mare Hifrane du Barthas

The first national anthems have been played: The endurance riders, whose competition opened the FEI World Equestrian Games in seven disciplines, were awarded with their well-deserved medals at lunchtime on Tuesday, in front of 29,500 spectators. The crowd celebrated the new World Champions Miguel Vila Urbach (Spain) and the victorious French team as well as the silver and bronze medallists with standing ovations. (Read on…)

Germany’s Heike Kemmer leads Individual Dressage Competition after Day 1. USA’s Guenter Seidel and Aragon in 5th place.

Individual Dressage Competition Grand Prix - Day 1

1. 239 BONAPARTE-HANN
HEIKE KEMMER
GER
76.458 (1) 75.000 (1) 75.625 (1) 74.792 (1) 77.083 (1) 75.792 (Read on…)

Germany finalizes its Show-jumping team for WEG

The Show-jumping Commission of the German Olympic Equestrian Committee (DOKR) appointed the members of the German show-jumping team today. Christian Ahlmann with Cöster, Ludger Beerbaum with L’Espoir, Marcus Ehning with Noltes Küchengirl and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum with Shutterfly will be competing in the team headed by national coach, Kurt Gravemeier. The reserve pair is Marco Kutscher (Riesenbeck) with Montender

Canadian Dressage at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games is a ‘good news - bad news’ story

Aachen, DE – August 22, 2025 – Ashley Holzer with the darkly handsome stallion, Gambol, co-owned with Dr. Diane Fellows, and Evi Strasser with striking chestnut gelding, Quantum Tyme, owned by her own Good Tyme Stables, are more than ready to carry the Canadian colours in the Dressage Competition at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. Team coach Norbert van Laak said, “I am really pleased (with the training program). It started well and all of the horses have progressed. (Read on…)

Spain and France Claim First Medals at 2006 WEG; Spain’s Ubach Takes Gold; America’s Top Rider Finishes 15th

Long before the sun rose over the first day of competition at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Aachen, a flurry of activity was going on as the stage was set for the first medal decisions made in the equestrian discipline of endurance. The consensus is that today’s championship served as the biggest in the sport’s interesting development and history, and the fact that temperatures didn’t make it much past the mid-60 degree range were a blessing to those who had feared that the heat that Germany saw weeks ago might wreak havoc in a sport where weather conditions can send the placings into a scramble. (Read on…)