World Cup Series Continues

Salzgeber's Hattrick at CDI-W Geneva

It's a Hattrick, a third victory in a row, for Ulla Salzgeber and Rusty. Dominating the CDI-W's in Berlin and Stuttgart, now the Bad Worishofen citizan conquered at the CDI-W Geneva, Switzerland.

With a miraculous 80.38% in the kur to music, Ulla Salzgeber is "currently" the only European dressage rider able to score above 80%. A second place went to the Dutch Gonnelien Rothenberger-Gordijn on the Oldenburger gelding Jonggor's Leonardo da Vinci (by Landadel). The pair hit 77.43% in the freestyle. Third place went to the German Ann Kathrin Kroth on Red Liner, an 11-year-old Westfalian gelding by Rex Fritz.

Kroth, who is the daughter of the Olympic gold medallist Liselotte Rheinberger-Linsenhoff, will be one of the future German dressage riders to take into account. Not only is Kroth creating a strong presence on the show scene with horses like Red Liner, Wandervogel and Renoir, but she is currently having a buying-rage purchasing the best auction horses all around Germany (Wahajama, Words of Glory, Rynok). A fourth position went to German outsider Dieter Laugks on Habana (73.23%).

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