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2008 CDI Hagen
Photo Report - 2008 Medien Cup Upcoming Grand Prix
Horse Qualifier
All photos copyrighted Astrid Appels/Eurodressage
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In 2007, the German Equestrian Federation launched
a new show circuit for upcoming Grand Prix horses.
Horses between 8 and 10 could participate in it,
performing a simplified version of the Grand Prix
with shorter stretches of passage and fewer steps
of piaffe. KHM Equestrian equipment sponsored the
event last year, but this year it has become the
"Medien Cup" and is getting full blown media attention,
so far, unfortunately, only in Germany, though
international riders can participate in the cup.
Winner of the first leg of the 2008 Medien Cup
Qualifier was Isabell Werth with her new (now
fourth) Grand Prix horse: First Class. |
| This Westfalian bred Florestan offpspring
has a lovely passage but needs much more conformation
in the piaffe. Isabell Werth has been training the
bay gelding for one year now, taking over the rider
from owner Kerstin Borms. Werth scored the winning
mark of 73.450 % in the finals test. |
| Finishing second were the winners of the preliminary
round, Ellen Schulten-Baumer on River of Joy. With
the passing of Schulten-Baumer's number one Grand
Prix horse Lesotho, the Hanoverian mare Donatha
had to fill up his place. The mare, however, is
not always a steady top scorer and it is a delight
to know that Schulten-Baumer has a mega star coming
along in "River of Joy". This Ravallo offspring
has a passage to die for and is a delight to watch.
They scored 69.800 % |
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Gina Capellmann-Lutkemeier has set her Grand
Prix hopes on her newest acquisition, Baldessarini
W. The bay mare, bred by Wolfram Wittig and by
his Hanoverian stallion Breitling W out of a Diego
xx dam, was competed by Birgit Wittig at the 2005
World Young Horse Championships and finished fifth
there. Lutkemeier purchased the mare in 2007 as
her new star for the future.
They scored 69.750 % and placed third in the
finals test. |
Hof Kasselmann's nextdoor neighbour are Jurgen
and Christoph Koschel who live at Hof Beckerode,
literally three meters across the street from Ullrich
Kasselmann's huge PSI domaine.
Christoph Koschel showed three horses at the
CDI Hagen, one of them was Donnperignon, a Finnish
bred Donnerhall x Mozart II offspring, owned by
the Koschels.
The impressive 9-year old liver chesnut gelding
scored 69.450 % |
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Closing the ranks in the finals test of the
Hagen Medien Cup qualifier was Carola Koppelmann
on Insterburg
TSF. This drop dead gorgeous Trakehner stallion
by Hohenstein x Giorgio Armani won the bronze medal
at the 2005 World Championships for Young Dressage
Horses in Verden and bronze at the 2005 Bundeschampionate
in Warendorf.
Under Koppelmann he has climbed up the levels
and is now schooling the Grand Prix.
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