2009 CDI-PJYR Bonn
Photo Report - Friday at the 2009 CDI-PJYR Bonn
June 10, 2009
One of my new year's resolutions this year was to make a bigger effort at attending more shows. With the completion of my PhD last year, there was little time to do anymore shows besides the big league championships. This year, I'm focusing on a wider variety events and I just love the youth riders competitions. So in one month time I did Weert, Moorsele and Bonn. Next week it's Hagen and then Rotterdam and Freudenberg, but I haven't decided yet where to go (Rotterdam is a certainty).
I got up early Friday morning at 6 AM to drive to Bonn. I was amazed at how close it was from my home. Only one hour and fourty minutes and I drove up to the premises of Winkelhues' equestrian centre. |
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While entering Bonn, I was teased by the banners of a big Kandinsky exhibit in town, but I had to fulfil my duty and shoot horses and ponies all day.
I arrived on the show ground at 8 am ready to shoot the first class at 8.30 but there was no horse in sight. .The crew was still watering the arena and dragging the ring. No one was warming up. I got the starters' lists and saw the classes only started at 10AM. Duh! Oh well, I avoided rush hour traffic and got some spare time to drink a cappucino, wake up and chat with the Belgian pony chef d'equipe.
I decided to focus on the pony team test and catch as many young riders at the same time, as two classes were going at once. |
Here is a selection of photos I took during the day.
All photos copyrighted Astrid Appels
No Reproduction Allowed without Permission/Payment
Pony Riders
The pony team test was won by the 14-year old Bianca Nowag on the drop dead gorgeous Der Feine Lord. A super rhythmical and smooth trot tour, ground covering canter work, a good walk and no major mistakes made them the winners of the day. Nowag is trained by Oliver Oelrich. |
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Der Feine Lord - He's a beauty |
Sönke Rothenberger is getting very tall for his pony, but he can still do the tricks. Aboard Deinhard, Sönke had some problems finding consistency in the trot as the contact with the bit was not so steady as usual, but the canterwork was outstanding as usual. They finished second with 0.5% point difference with the winner. |
Viktoria Braun on Voyager. The pony is a former double Bundeschampion, winning both the dressage and eventing discipline at the same championship. He then went into bootcamp at Connie Endres' stable and returned from there all messed up in the mouth. Braun and her trainer Stefanie Meyer-Biss did a great job fixing what was broken, especially the contact with the bit. Though Voyager still goes behind the vertical a lot and loses suspension in trot, he does have great extensions in trot and canter. He finished fourth. |
The prettiest pony on the scene, IMHO. Grete Linnemann's Cinderella. Such an elegant, gorgeous, light footed mare, but she's still young and loses her balances in the traversal movements and corners. The future looks promising. |
Danish Anne Tange took over the ride from Swedish Elin Aspnas on Tim. Tange does a great job and had a lovely team test which should have scored much higher than it did (66,111%).. Oh well, in Germany the Germans get ranked first, or not? |
Spanish Alexandra Barbancon on Domino Dancing
Right: Alexandra's mom Marie Carmen watching |
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German Estelle Schulz on Dragon in a lovely left half pass |
Belgian Alexa Fairchild on Stukhuster Ricardo Go for Gold (can a name be any longer ;) |
The Danish Barnekow sisters do well internationally.
Sabrina Barnekow on Vermont (by Master) |
Simone Barnekow on the super talented but very green looking Kinski WE. |
Michelle Frenzen on Dance of Joy W |
Elder sister Annabel Frenzen watching the ride |
Nadia Winter on Carat Horse Team's Peppino. |
Nathalie Overmann and Danny H in a half pass |
Rikke Lindberg's Brooklands Moonwalker. They lost many points for the pony sticking out his tongue. Pity |
A very promising pair: Joy Albeck aboard Sonke Rothenberger's schoolmaster Wimbledon. |
Italian Carlotta Marconi on Ferdi Folklores Puccini |
Florine Kienbaum on the gorgeous Donnertraum.. The pony was naughty, spooking everywhere and giving his rider a very hard time. The trot did not come to expression and was incredibly short and flat, but Florine did a great job by not giving up and finishing her ride! |
Two Dutch riders were in Bonn. This is Bo Kragtwijk on Lasco. Bo's fans brought along the dog on the right. |
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No longer riding Power and Paint, Rachell Fokker now has Welsh pony stallion Orchard Boginov |
The Fokker family watching some tests. |
It's great to see more Italian pony riders on the international pony scene but Valerio Andretta's Montana Texass seems to need a medical check up by a vet because the pony looked very uneven! Strange that the judges didn't ring him out. |
Valerio Andretti |
Leonie Laier on Duty Free rode in the national test
Junior Riders
German pony rider Theresa Bausch is moonlighting. She was riding her pony Dornik Double in the one ring and then got on the gigantic Don Freddy for the junior riders' test in the other arena. |
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The winner of the junior riders' team test was Louisa Luttgen on the delightful Hanoverian gelding Habitus (by Hohenstein). The dark bay gelding is super a powerful, lightfooted mover and the contact the bit was at all times steady and soft. What a textbook example! Louisa is trained by her sister Anna Katharina. |
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Nicola Krause, the cousin of Sonke and Sanneke Rothenberer (and almost a spitting image of Sanneke), finished second on the lovely Dutch bred mare Rhythm Dance (by Goodtimes x Pretendent). The dark bay mare is originally called Ritti and was previously trained and competed by Ingrid Klimke. |
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Danish Marie Louise Larsen's gorgeous stallion Romar |
French Alix van den Berghe riding Marc Feller's Othello. |
Luxembourg Nicolas Wagner on De Ville B. Wagner is trained by Ton de Ridder and was a former pony rider. |
Please braid that forelock!
Josephine Binder and Little Sweat. The pair is coached by Danish Lone Jorgensen |
Lynn Schneider on the huge Westfalian gelding Dali |
Danish Camilla Blicher on the big Hanoverian Adhesive's Hudson. They were going strong in the trot but lacked impulsion in the canter. The flying changes didn't go as well as normally. |
Young Riders
Winner of all three young rider classes was Thea Felicitas Muller with the Hanoverian Highway (by Hohenstein). The black gelding, with the most impressive canter imaginable, is blind.
In the summer of 2006 the Muller family returned from vacation to find Highway in his stable standing like a statue and staring at them with his eyes open. He was diagnosed with atrophy of the retina and was slowly turning totally blind. Müller did not give up on her horse and learned him special commands to rely on her as his pair of eyes. She continued building trust with the horse and was able to ride him first indoors and later on in the woods. Their dressage career also progressed and the pair became the shooting stars of Germany, winning the 2008 Preis der Besten, the 2008 CDI-JR Bonn and the silver medal at the 2008 European Junior Riders Championships. |
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Left: Katharina Winkelhues on her new young riders' horse Big Albert (by Brentano II)
Above: Katharin's parents: Mr and Mrs Winkelhues (the organizers of the show). |
Danish Anne Kathrine Elkjaer Holm on Bernstein Las Marismas. |
There were only two Dutch young riders in Bonn. This is Dindi van den Brink on Planet Dolibra V. |
Antonia Gotzens on Champagner. |
Spanish Carlos del Castillo on Welthina |
Carina Nevermann Torup on Come Back After 8 (by Come Back II). |
Tongue problems also arise at youth riders' level. |
Candids |
Heart shaped ear ring. Nice |
Strange bump on horse's cannon bone |
Danish Dog |
Dogs all over the place |
Youth riders' shows also generate friendship amongst the competitors. |
Australian judge Susie Hoevenaars |
Finnish rider and trainer Mikaela Lindh |
It's June so for most kids that means exams! Here are some Danish girls studying Math together in the tent. |
Gabi Winkelhues and show director Uwe Spenlen share a scooter ride. |
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Show Photography
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Eurodressage photographer Astrid Appels
was on the scene taking pictures
of all international pony riders riding on Friday and most juniors and young riders
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We shot the following riders: Albeck, Andretta, Bachmann, Barbancon, Barnekow, Bausch, Binder, Blicher, Brabanders, Braun, Camp, Claeys, del Castillo, De Ridder, Elkjaer Holm, Fairchild, Federspiel, Fokker, Frenzen, Gotzens, Hartmann, Kienbaum, Kragtwijk, Krause, Laier, Larsen, Lindberg, Linnemann, Luttgen, Mansmann, Marconi, Metzer, Moller, Mucke, Muller, Nevermann Torup, Nowag, Orloff, Otto, Overmann, Peperhowe, Richter, Rom, Rothenberger, Runge, Schindler, Schmitz, Schneider, Schulz, Snijders, Sparaciari, Stuttgen, Tange, Thill, Tychon, Van den Berghe, Van den Brink, Wagner, Weychert, Winkelhues, Winther
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Related Link
Scores 2009 CDI-PJYR Bonn
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