Matthias & Totilas Take Grand Prix Special, German Title

BALVE, Germany, June 18–Matthias Alexander Rath and Totilas collected 12 marks of 10 on their way to a convincing win with a score of 83.417 per cent in the Grand Prix Special Saturday and take the German Championships in only their third competition.

As with Friday’s Grand Prix–which coincidentally was the second anniversary of the first international Grand Prix competition, with Edward Gal of The Netherlands–Isabell Werth and the 10-year-old El Santo NRW was second on 81.375 per cent to become vice champion. Anabel Balkenhol on Dablino was third with 79.000 per cent and Christoph Koschel and Donnperignon fourth with 77.833 per cent.

For the movement of 12 to 15 steps of piaffe, Matthias and the 11-year-old black stallion were awarded four 10s and one 9.

El Santo is the youngest horse in the competition and has competed at only six international competitions since starting his Grand Prix career in February, 2010.

After the championship was determined by the Special, Isabell said: “We have now in Germany again a great starting point with four to five pairs internationally, and there are some horses capable of more than 80 percent in competition and that is good.”

This is not an international competition and all five judges are German. The championships are, however, closely watched as an indicator of the state of German dressage, and more so this year as it was only the third show for Matthias and Totilas since Totilas was acquired by Paul Schockemöhle and Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff, Matthias’s stepmother, following last year’s World Equestrian Games.

The results at Balve determined the German team for the CHIO in Aachen in mid-July, which in turn is the selection competition for the European Championships in Rotterdam at the end of August.

Matthias and Totilas have competed three times, all of them this month–at Munich and Wiesbaden and now Balve, while the horse maintains a three-times-a-week breeding schedule.

The pair will perform their first musical freestyle Sunday.

The only top German combination missing from Balve is Ulla Salzgeber and Herze’s Erbe. The German Olympic gold medalist had to scratch when she developed an upset stomach. Ulla and Herzruf’s Erbe won the Munich CDI5* Freestyle earlier this month with a personal best score.

Grand Prix Special results:

Platzierte Teilnehmer							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	664	Totilas	Rath, Matthias Alexander	GER		4700 EUR	408.0	397.0	400.0	393.0	404.0	2002.0 Punkte
	R 11-j.H v.Gribaldi/M.v.Glendale/KWPN/NED08021/B: Linsenhoff u.Paul Schockemöhle,			Frankf.Turnierst.Schw.Gelb e.V			85.000 %	82.709 %	83.334 %	81.875 %	84.167 %	83.417 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	313	El Santo NRW	Werth, Isabell	GER		4000 EUR	392.0	390.0	390.0	388.0	393.0	1953.0 Punkte
	B 10-j.W v.Ehrentusch/M.v.Rhythmus/RHLD/GER44504/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine			RFV Graf v.Schmettow Eversael			81.667 %	81.250 %	81.250 %	80.833 %	81.875 %	81.375 %
							2.	2.	2.	2.	2.
3.	273	Dablino	Balkenhol, Anabel	GER		3200 EUR	378.0	383.0	382.0	378.0	375.0	1896.0 Punkte
	DF 11-j.W v.De Niro/M.v.Wanderbursch II/HANN/GER41335/B: Balkenhol,Klaus			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			78.750 %	79.792 %	79.583 %	78.750 %	78.125 %	79.000 %
							3.	3.	3.	3.	4.
4.	304	Donnperignon	Koschel, Christoph	GER		2500 EUR	372.0	362.0	377.0	377.0	380.0	1868.0 Punkte
	DF 12-j.W v.Donnerhall/M.v.Mozart II 79/FIN.WB./GER25410/B: Hof Beckerode GmbH,			RSC Osnabrücker Land e.V.			77.500 %	75.416 %	78.541 %	78.541 %	79.166 %	77.833 %
							4.	4.	4.	4.	3.
5.	275	Damon Hill NRW	Langehanenberg, Helen	GER		2000 EUR	366.0	342.0	373.0	368.0	352.0	1801.0 Punkte
	DF 11-j.H v.Donnerhall/M.v.Rubinstein I/WESTF/GER26971/B: Becks,Christian			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			76.250 %	71.250 %	77.709 %	76.667 %	73.334 %	75.042 %
							5.	6.	5.	5.	5.
6.	697	Warum nicht FRH	Werth, Isabell	GER		1300 EUR	342.0	351.0	364.0	349.0	349.0	1755.0 Punkte
	F 15-j.W v.Weltmeyer/M.v.Wenzel I/HANN/GER23022/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine			RFV Graf v.Schmettow Eversael			71.250 %	73.125 %	75.833 %	72.708 %	72.708 %	73.125 %
							8.	5.	6.	6.	6.
7.	704	Whisper	Theodorescu, Monica	GER		800 EUR	344.0	334.0	345.0	343.0	342.0	1708.0 Punkte
	F 13-j.W v.Welt Hit I O/M.v.Weltstar/WÜRTT/GER26878/B: Linsenhoff,Ann Kathrin			RFV Warendorf e.V.			71.667 %	69.584 %	71.875 %	71.459 %	71.250 %	71.167 %
							7.	9.	7.	7.	7.
8.	67	Biagiotti WW	Wittig, Brigitte	GER		500 EUR	345.0	333.0	341.0	338.0	318.0	1675.0 Punkte
	DB 11-j.S v.Breitling W/M.v.Diego xx/OLD/GER27524/B: Wittig,Wolfram			RFV von Lützow Herford e.V.			71.875 %	69.375 %	71.042 %	70.417 %	66.250 %	69.792 %
							6.	10.	8.	8.	12.
9.	442	Le Noir	Gräf, Uta	GER		500 EUR	336.0	335.0	328.0	334.0	333.0	1666.0 Punkte
	R 11-j.H v.Leandro/M.v.Caletto I/HOLST/GER46057/B: Herzog,Christiane			RFV Weisenheim am Sand e.V.			70.000 %	69.792 %	68.334 %	69.584 %	69.375 %	69.417 %
							10.	7.	11.	9.	9.
10.	768	Le Bo	Koppelmann, Carola	GER		500 EUR	335.0	330.0	325.0	334.0	338.0	1662.0 Punkte
	F 18-j.W /HANN./GER17584/B: Koppelmann, Carola			Kehdinger Reitclub e.V.			69.792 %	68.750 %	67.708 %	69.583 %	70.417 %	69.250 %
							11.	12.	13.	9.	8.
Weitere, nicht platzierte Teilnehmer
11.	315	Elvis VA	Capellmann, Nadine	GER			338.0	335.0	330.0	331.0	325.0	1659.0 Punkte
	F 15-j.W v.Espri/M.v.Garibaldi II/HANN/GER27120/B: Capellmann,Nadine			RV Würselen 1925 e.V.			70.417 %	69.792 %	68.750 %	68.958 %	67.708 %	69.125 %
							9.	7.	9.	11.	10.
12.	397	Kaiserkult TSF	Schneider, Dorothee	GER			332.0	322.0	329.0	329.0	323.0	1635.0 Punkte
	DB 13-j.H v.Van Deyk/M.v.Gajus/TRAK./GER28230/B: Schneider,Dorothee			Frankf.Turnierst.Schw.Gelb e.V			69.167 %	67.083 %	68.542 %	68.542 %	67.292 %	68.125 %
							12.	13.	10.	12.	11.
13.	602	Responsible OLD	Langehanenberg, Helen	GER			332.0	333.0	323.0	328.0	312.0	1628.0 Punkte
	R 12-j.S v.Rohdiamant/M.v.Freudenprinz/OLD/GER40235/B: Mertens-Gahlen,Gabriele			RV St.Georg Münster e.V.			69.166 %	69.375 %	67.291 %	68.333 %	65.000 %	67.833 %
							12.	10.	14.	13.	14.
14.	53	Baldessarini	Capellmann-Lütkemeier, Gina	GER			316.0	321.0	327.0	323.0	316.0	1603.0 Punkte
	DB 12-j.S v.Breitling W/M.v.Diego xx/OLD/GER27523/B: Capellmann-Lütkemeier,Gina			RFV Paderborn e.V.			65.834 %	66.875 %	68.125 %	67.292 %	65.834 %	66.792 %
							14.	14.	12.	14.	13.
15.	422	Lamarc WRT	Becker, Sabine	GER			315.0	321.0	317.0	322.0	306.0	1581.0 Punkte
	DB 15-j.W v.Leggiero/M.v.Kronprinz xx/OLD/GER41542/B: Becker,Sabine			RG Ober-Castrop e.V.			65.625 %	66.875 %	66.042 %	67.083 %	63.750 %	65.875 %
							15.	14.	15.	15.	15.