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2003
CDIO Aachen
Husenbeth In Strong Shape at 2003 CDIO Aachen
 International
dressage competition started today in the wonderful
arena of the Aachen Rennverein for the 2003 CDIO Aachen.
The world's best riders came in action today in two
exhilarating classes, the CDI Prix St Georges and the
CDIO Grand Prix Nations' Cup.
Leading the ranking of group 1 in the CDIO Grand Prix
is German Klaus Husenbeth aboard his Hanoverian gelding
Piccolino. Purchased at the Verden auction and trained
to Grand Prix by Husenbeth, Piccolino is an absolutely
superb Grand Prix horse with Rusty-traversal quality
and impulsion. Scoring 71.67%, the international panel
of judges placed Husenbeth unanimously into first position.
Husenbeth's Piccolino (by Prince Tatch xx) has became
so much stronger since his last big international appearance
at the 2002 World Equestrian Games. The dark bay gelding
dances with such great rhythm and has never before shown
a stronger, confirmed piaffe-passage tour than in the
CDIO Grand Prix.
Following decisively in second position is Finnish
Kyra Kyrklund, who realises she has a new international
calibre horse in Linda Fowler's Andiamo Tyme. Putting
70.79% on the scoreboard, Kyra and Andiamo excelled
in the piaffe and passage and showed an overall extremely
harmonious picture.
 In
third position is Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff and her genious
Renoir Unicef with 69.63%. Linsenhoff kicked off riding
a 75% test, but as the tension built up in the test
due to its rising brilliance, Linsenhoff couldn't handle
the pressure and flawed in the tempi's every two strides.
The error made her lose all connection with the horse,
yet Linsenhoff did her best to repair the damage that
had been done. Renoir Unicef had shown a divine test
in which cadance, rhythm, impulsion and suppleness ruled,
but after the error in the tempi's, he became too hot
to handle. Although the pair received five nines in
the extended walk, the scores dropped unfortunately
at the end.
Two Americans came in action in the CDIO Grand Prix
and that were Guenter Seidel and Steffen Peters. Seidel
who gaurantees a peaceful picture of harmony between
rider and horse got the best out of his hot Nikolaus
and scored 68.33% (6th). Steffen Peters presented a
rebooted Grandeur, as the horse was fresh and crispy
in the mind and tookd great pleasure in showing the
Grand Prix movements at Aachen. 67.63% placed them eighth
and put the American Dressage team in a provisional
second place in the nations' cup.
 Aachen
citizen and show favorite Nadine Capellmann dominated
the CDI Prix St Georges on her Hanoverian Bolero-offspring
Bouton. The nine-year old chestnut scored a generous
69.00% for a test that started out at a high level of
suspension, and ended in a slight loss of collection.
Second placed Sterntaler, Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff's newest
acquisition, is qualitywise superior to Bouton, but
the communication with his rider needed more finetuning
in order to prevail. 68.85% ranked the combination second,
beating Monica Theodorescu on her latest grey revelation,
Cooper. The Holsteiner gelding by Carolus received 68.50%
from the judges, who suffered from malcommunication
on Wednesday morning
Each member of the panel of judges envisaged a different
winner. Beatrice Burchler Keller and Volker Moritz favored
Simons de Ridder on Wellington, Mariette Withages chose
Rehbein on Placido, Truppa made Capellmann win and Linda
Zang liked Oatley Nist on Quando Quando the most. While
Zang placed Oatley Nist first, Withages chose to rank
her last (19th).
Aachen is known to be an exhilarating show, where controversy,
surprise and tradition go hand in hand. In the CDIO
Grand Prix, the judges' opinions equalled out and showed
a more balanced reflection of the reality.
by Astrid
Appels
Images copyrighted: Phelpsphotos
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