The 2008 CHIO Aachen kicked off a few days before the dressage classes started with a horse show called "Horse & Symphonie". There was a Pony All Star quadrille as well as a Harry Potter mise-en-scene with horses as protagonists.
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Pony all star quadrille" titled "Deutschlands Zukunft" was ridden
by Theresa Bausch & Dornik Double, Viktoria Braun & Voyager, Michelle
Frenzen & Dance of Joy, Stefanie Keens & Kensington, Florine Kienbaum &
Donnertraum, Nathalie Overmann & Dinarion, Jill de Ridder & Don Ramiro
und Karolin Voßbeck & Deshima.
Below left: part of the quadrille
Below right: Viktoria Braun on Voyager |
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Michelle Frenzen on Dance of Joy |
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The "Harry Potter" quadrille was organized by
Renate Dahmen of Stall Dahmen (she is Jana Kun's mother) with their own riders (Anouk Teeuwen, Celina Hahn, Julia Vohn, Sarah Vazques,
Karina Siemes, Lia Droste, Eva Pohl, Leonie Teeuwen, Andrea Werth).
The horse in canter "played" Voldemort
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Hubertus von Zedwitz on Sabine Rueben's Weltfurst and Jana Kun. They portray Franz Josef and Sissi |
Organizer Renate Dahmen |
Heiner Schiergen on Lord Loxley |
Dressage Days at Aachen |
Ingrid Klimke on Damon Hill |
Hubertus Schmidt on Franziskus |
Stefan van Ingelgem on Withney |
Beatriz Ferrer-Salat on Faberge |
Patrik Kittel on Floresco |
Heike Kemmer on Bonaparte
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Isabell Werth and Hayley Beresford |
Beresford on Rhapsodie Queen, Werth on El Santo |
Helen Langehaneberg on her bike |
Isabell Werth on a scooter |
Madeleine Winter Schulze holder her Satchmo |
Kyra Kyrklund |
Winter-Schulze and Wolfram Wittig watching Isabell Werth ride.
In between breaks, Werth had to sign autographs. |
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Marie Linsenhoff... |
...and many other fans rooting for Matthias Alexander Rath on her mother's Sterntaler Unicef. |
Matthias Alexander Rath |
Juen Manuel Munoz Diaz |
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Munoz Diaz is trained by Jan Bemelmans. |
Jordi Domingo and Prestige in the rain... |
Domingo's girlfriend in the sunshine... |
Capellmann and Elvis in the rain.... |
... more rain, Jurgen Koschel watching |
Jurgen Koschel |
Capellmann on Riverbanks Raffaldo |
Lydia Camp |
Danish Olympic team reserve member Anders Dahl with his one year old daughter Mette Clare. |
Isabell Werth warming up a young horse for a demonstration |
The future of dressage: Victoria Max-Theurer on Augustin |
Sjef Janssen and Christoph Hess |
Werth and Madeleine Winter-Schulze |
The 2008 German Olympic Team: Monica Theodorescu, Heike Kemmer, Nadine Capellmann, Isabell Werth and team trainer Holger Schmezer |
....and that was Aachen 2008. |
