Photo Report - 2008 CDI Stuttgart

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Isabell Werth proved to be unbeatable both with Satchmo and Warum Nicht.

It was Satchmo's first appearance since the Olympic Games and there were no problems with the piaffe in Stuttgart. For Isabell it were tears of triumph. When handed a microphone after the Special, she just burst into tears, and it took her a while to find her voice again. She said that for her, this ride was proof that the horse deserved to be Olympic winner, that there was no lingering problem and that he really must have had a kink in his back in Hongkong. It was a very moving moment in the sold-out arena, which holds more spectators than the dressage arena in Aachen.

	Trainer Wolfram Wittig was looking to it that everything went right with Isabell and Satchmo
Nadine Capellmann reconnected with her old trainer Klaus Balkenhol and is already reaping the fruits. Elvis VA has been ridden by Balkenhol and Capellmann the days prior to the Stuttgart show which led to a new appearance of the horse. Elvis VA looked better than ever. At the show, the pair was schooling the Grand Prix movements in a snaffle!
Sharing training sessions with Capellmann were British Laura Bechtolsheimer and Klaus' daughter Annabel Balkenhol. The threesome was training at the stable in Rosendahl to get the best out of their horses. Annabel Balkenhol on Easy and Laura Bechtolsheimer on Mistral Hojris
Laura on Andretti H	Laura on Mistral
Heather Blitz on Otto	Kyra Kyrklund on Max
Jonny Hilberath on Fariano	Ellen Schulten Baumer on Donatha S
Japanese Hiroshi Hoketsu did not attend the 2008 Japanese Dressage Championships in Miki, Japan, but was preparing Whisper for the CDI Stuttgart in Germany with his trainer Ton de Ridder.
Ulla Salzgeber once broke the world record in the Grand Prix Special at Stuttgart with her Latvian warmblood Rusty (80.48%)	Dieter Laugks on Weltall VA, a horse which improved Salzgeber's GPS world record at the CDI Neumunster (82.56%)
Carola Koppelmann on Le Bo	Karen Tebar on Falada M
Monica Theodorescu on Whisper	Victoria Max-Theurer on Salieri
Victoria Max-Theurer on Falcao	Nathalie Zu Saeyn-Wittgenstein on Digby

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