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1999
World Championships for Young Dressage Horses
Arnhem, The Netherlands
1 - 4 July, 199
Swedish Maistic Showing Off
 The
only horse able to strive through the German hegemony
in the 6 year old division at the 1999 World Championships
for Young Dressage Horses was the Swedish Maistic. The
elegant chestnut threw the high scores of 8.6 and 9.2/10
in his two qualifying classes. Minna Telde pushed some
great extensions and collections out of Maistic, but
the chestnut wasn't constantly steady in the mouth and
jumped through one of the flying changes.
Nevertheless the judge corps was happily pleased with
the Swedish warmblood stallion by Kleber Magritte. In
the finals the combination worked up to a 77.81 score,
ending fourth, which resulted in a excellent overall
third position behind the two top notch German dressage
horses Sandro Hit and Del Piero.
Two weeks after the World Championships, Maistic appears
to have kept the condition he showed in Arnhem. At the
International Equestrian Competition in Falsterbo, Sweden,
Telde and Maistic placed first in the semi-finals (71.7%)
and third in the finals (71.6%).
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