Verden - Susan Pape cried tears of joy! The dressage rider representing Great Britain rode the Westphalian mare Cayenne W to victory at the World Championship for five-year-old dressage horses. The judges gave nines for the trot of the Carabas - Bismarck daughter as well as for the general impression. The final score for Cayenne was 8,82.
Behind the Champion followed an Oldenburg stallion and an Oldenburg mare. Juliane Brunckhorst (Harsefeld) presented the son of Rubin Royal - Landadel, Revanche de Rubin OLD at Verden and won silver with a score of 8,52, bronze went to the Caprimond - Donnerhall daughter Noble-Dream (8,34). Specators at the WCh witnessed how close good luck and bad luck can be. The mare Blind Date who had won a commanding victory in the qualifier on Friday made a wrong step in the warm-up arena and her rider Brigitte Wittig had to cancel her participation. “I have no idea what it is,” said Wittig, ” she leaped and then went lame”. Horse and rider will have to wait another year for their next chance. Maybe it is a consolation that the new World Champion Cayenne W was bred by the Wittig family. The elegant mare is owned by Akemi Tanaka from Tokyo.
The Grand Prix Special, Prize of Brentina VA at Verden was won by double World Champion Isabel Werth (Rheinberg) with her championship aspirant Satchmo. the Hanoverian gelding was presented at the International Dressage and Show-Jumping Festival for the last time before the European Championships at Turin. Before the Championships the German team are going to train in Austria. Bernadette Pujals from Mexico and her Hanoverian Vincent followed on second place ahead of British lady rider Laura Bechtolsheimer with Mistral Hojris. The British team used the Verden Festival as their individual preparation for the ECh. Bechtolsheimer`s team mate Emma Hindle took part with Lancet and came in fourth in the Special. Werth is already looking forward to a flight to the US - her victory in the Special earned her a trip to Las Vegas.
Their first final celebrated the jumper riders in the Verden stadium. Otto Vaske (Emstek) and Lagran won the Priz of the Kreissparkasse Verden, the final of the medium tour in a classic course on advanced level ahead of Joachim Heyer (Cloppenburg) with Cortado and Markus Beerbeum (Thedinghausen)/Herold. A big step forward towards the Great Prize made Sören Pedersen. The Dane, living at Wildeshausen and his mount Lobster won the qualifier in the Prize of he Halberstädter Würstchen- und Konservenfabrik, a difficult course on advanced level. On Sunday jumper riders will compete in the Verden stadium for the Great Prize, enowed with 20,000 €.
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