Guenter Seidel & U II Win Hamburg Derby CDI4* Freestyle
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HAMBURG, Germany, June 4–Günter Seidel rode U II in the Californian’s first competition in Germany in five years and a year since a riding accident broke his pelvis, won the Hamburg Dressage Derby CDI4* Grand Prix Musical Freestyle Saturday.
Günter of Cardiff, California, and the 10-year-old KWPN gelding owned by Dick and Jane Brown scored 73.400 per cent with Norway’s Lillan Jebsen on Pro-Set second on 72.875 per cent and Alexandra Bimschas of Germany on Dick Tracy in third on 72.175 per cent.
A year ago, Günter and U II had gone to the training center of former U.S. coach Klaus Balkenhol at the start of a planned European competition swing. The horse threw him and the German-born Günter was hospitalized with a broken pelvis. He competed in California earlier this year but admitted he still hurt from the injury.
Günter, an Olympic and World Equestrian Games medalist for the U.S., is popular and highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic. He last competed in Europe at the WEG in Aachen in 2006 where he was a member of the U.S. team that won bronze.
In the current tour, he is scheduled to compete at Fritzens in Austria and the World Equestrian Festival at Aachen, Germany next month.
He has two Grand Prix mounts–U II on whom he won the U.S. Developing Horse Championships three years ago, and Sundayboy who is coming back from an injury and Günter has been competing him at Intermediaire.
In the Grand Prix Special, the three top places were filled by Germans with Anabel Balkenhol on Rubins Royal at 69.708 per cent, Wieger Derk de Boer on Cosmopolitan second on 66.750 per cent and Kathleen Keller on Wonder FRH third on 66.333 per cent.
Grand Prix Special results:
| Placed competitors | (E) | (H) | (C) | (M) | (B) | Total | |||||||
| 1. | 383 | Rubins Royal | Balkenhol, Anabel | GER |  | 2650 EUR | 333.0 | 335.0 | 328.0 | 348.0 | 329.0 | 1673.0 points |  |
| B 14-j.W v.Rubinstein I/M.v.Vargas xx/OLDBG/GER44534/B: Balkenhol,Klaus | 69.375 % | 69.791 % | 68.333 % | 72.500 % | 68.541 % | 69.708 % | |||||||
| 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | |||||||||
| 2. | 162 | Cosmopolitan | Boer, Wieger Derk de | GER | | 2150 EUR | 317.0 | 332.5 | 311.5 | 321.0 | 320.0 | 1602.0 points | |
| B 19-j.H v.Corleone/M.v.Lago Maggiore/HOLST/GER22872/B: Stenzel,Gisela | 66.042 % | 69.271 % | 64.896 % | 66.875 % | 66.667 % | 66.750 % | |||||||
| 4. | 2. | 5. | 2. | 2. | |||||||||
| 3. | 465 | Wonder FRH | Keller, Kathleen | GER | | 1650 EUR | 312.5 | 329.5 | 323.0 | 318.0 | 309.0 | 1592.0 points | |
| DB 14-j.W v.Werther/M.v.Maat I/HANN/GER27856/B: Bösche Dr.,Joachim | 65.104 % | 68.645 % | 67.291 % | 66.250 % | 64.375 % | 66.333 % | |||||||
| 5. | 3. | 2. | 3. | 6. | |||||||||
| 4. | 752 | Aribo 4 | Christensen, Martin | DEN |  | 1150 EUR | 321.0 | 310.5 | 320.0 | 315.0 | 317.0 | 1583.5 points | |
| F 12-j.W v.Acord II/M.v.Admirano/WESTF/GER44906/B: Stritzke,Wolfgang | 66.875 % | 64.687 % | 66.666 % | 65.625 % | 66.041 % | 65.979 % | |||||||
| 2. | 4. | 3. | 7. | 3. | |||||||||
| 5. | 529 | Rhythm and Dance | Platen, Julia-Katharina von | GER | | 850 EUR | 318.5 | 310.0 | 306.0 | 316.0 | 316.0 | 1566.5 points | |
| /B: Platen,Wilken von | 66.354 % | 64.583 % | 63.750 % | 65.834 % | 65.834 % | 65.271 % | |||||||
| 3. | 5. | 8. | 5. | 4. | |||||||||
| 6. | 671 | King Arthur TSF | Wilm, Petra | GER | | 650 EUR | 302.0 | 309.0 | 316.0 | 312.0 | 314.0 | 1553.0 points | |
| DB 13-j.H v.Buddenbrock/M.v.Consul/TRAK/GER25578/B: Gestüt Tasdorf/Petra Wilm | 62.916 % | 64.375 % | 65.833 % | 65.000 % | 65.416 % | 64.708 % | |||||||
| 7. | 6. | 4. | 8. | 5. | |||||||||
| 7. | 329 | Norblin | Augustin, Johannes | GER | | 300 EUR | 310.5 | 307.0 | 307.0 | 316.0 | 305.0 | 1545.5 points | |
| DB 16-j.W /POL01557/B: Skup,Janusz | 64.688 % | 63.958 % | 63.958 % | 65.834 % | 63.542 % | 64.396 % | |||||||
| 6. | 7. | 7. | 5. | 7. | |||||||||
| 8. | 669 | Happy Louis | Kanerva, Emma | FIN |  | 300 EUR | 302.0 | 299.0 | 303.0 | 317.0 | 303.0 | 1524.0 points | |
| DB 10-j.W v.Louis Heslegard/M.v.Labrador/OLDBG/103GL22/B: Slawinski,Martina | 62.917 % | 62.292 % | 63.125 % | 66.042 % | 63.125 % | 63.500 % | |||||||
| 7. | 9. | 9. | 4. | 8. | |||||||||
| 9. | 219 | Famous Boy | Kasselmann, Bianca | GER | | 300 EUR | 290.0 | 300.5 | 308.0 | 305.0 | 303.0 | 1506.5 points | |
| B 14-j.W v.Feiner Stern/M.v.Landadel/OLDBG/GER40762/B: Hof Kasselmann KG | 60.417 % | 62.604 % | 64.167 % | 63.542 % | 63.125 % | 62.771 % | |||||||
| 9. | 8. | 6. | 9. | 8. | |||||||||
