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Anna Marek (USA) and Janet Simile’s 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood Fire Fly were the number-one pick of all five judges in the Grand Prix Special CDI3*, presented by Olympia Footing. Despite a two-hour storm delay midway through, the day’s marquee class produced some pleasing performances during week one of the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in …
Continuing on from where they left off, the world number one horse-and-rider combination of Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and the wonder-mare TSF Dalera BB produced another superb performance to win the seventh leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League at Basel in Switzerland. Compatriots Isabell Werth with Emilio 107 and Matthias Alexander …
Darragh Kenny was seeing double on Friday afternoon after winning his second FEI class in the same number of days during the Winter Equestrian Festival’s Week 1. This time, the Irish Olympian piloted Serendepety to win the $32,000 Dodd Technologies CSI3* 1.45m Speed from a field of fifty-six riders over tracks set by USA’s Nick …
The much anticipated first ‘Friday Night Stars’ evening of musical freestyle competition at the 2024 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington, FL brought impressive performances on a balmy night in front of packed stands during Lloyd Landkamer Memorial week. In the week’s highlight class, the FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix Freestyle, presented by Palm …
The 12th FEI Vaulting World Cup final opened in spectacular fashion in the St Jakobshalle in snowy Basel (SUI). Germany flew into the lead in both individual events and only narrowly missed out on the Pas de Deux overnight top spot. The Italian pair, Rebecca Greggio and Davide Zanella, holds it for now. With one …
Opening day of the 2024 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) delivered a poetic win for Germany’s 23-year-old Felicitas Hendricks and Drombusch OLD in the FEI World Cup™ Grand Prix, presented by Palm Beach Equine Clinic on Thursday. Hendricks and her 13-year-old Oldenburg gelding (Destano x Dimaggio) claimed their first Big Tour win after Hendricks made …
Lebanon’s Jad Dana is back on top to start the 2024 season of the Winter Equestrian Festival with a win in the $75,000 Prestige Italia Grand Prix to cap Premiere Week at Wellington International on Sunday. Dana, 28, and ABC Quantum Cruise, owned by Wyndmont, set an uncatchable pace in an eight-horse jump-off during the …
Eighteen-year-old Ansgar Holtgers Jr (USA) could not be caught in the $25,000 Hermès Championship Jumper Classic on Saturday of opening week at the 2024 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF). He and Tulum, a fifteen-year-old stallion (Chacco Blue x Captain Paul I), owned by Gut Einhaus, bested a six-horse jump-off designed by Eric Hasbrouck (USA) to take …
Beneath the illuminated Christmas trees suspended high above the arena in the Nekkerhal, reigning champion Boyd Exell (AUS) stamped his supremacy once again on the current FEI Driving World Cup™ series by winning the 7th leg in Mechelen. Despite being pushed hard by the other drivers whose horses are on peak form at this stage …
In a perfect round-up to a great year of sport in 2023, Germany’s Christian Ahlmann scooped the honours in the ninth leg of the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ 2023/2024 Western European League in front of an ecstatic audience at the Nekkerhal in Mechelen, Belgium. There wasn’t an inch of viewing space left around the …