Dressage-News

By ILSE SCHWARZ

VERDEN, Germany, Aug 7- In stark contrast to the finals of the five year olds, tension, spooking and mistakes were significant factors in the six-year-old World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horse final Sunday that was won by Astrix 7 ridden by Emmelie Scholtens of The Netherlands.

The 2010 five-year-old champion, licensed KWPN stallion Astrix 7 (Obelisk x Olivi), was ridden tactfully by Emmelie to post the highest trot score of the day, 9.60 with his very elegant and light-footed way of going.

His flying changes lacked quality and strongly affected the score for submission, 7.40 but his final score of 8.70  was enough to sneak in front of the Rhinelander stallion Damone Jerome (Damon Hill x Guy Laroche) ridden by the very popular Uta Gräf of Germany who scored 8.68 much earlier in the class.

The bronze medal was awarded to the Westfalian gelding St Emilion 2 (Sandro Hit x Ehrenwort) ridden by Dorothee Schneider, also of Germany. This pair received the highest score of the day for submission, 9.00.

Damon Jerome took an early lead in the class with a fluid test showing good basic gaits and first class training, trot 8.50, walk 9.00, canter 8.50, submission 8.70, general impression 8.70. The gaits showed really good adjustability between the collected and extended movements, uphill tendency in trot and canter and to quote the ground jury “walk pirouettes for a 10.” He didn’t really halt at the beginning or end of the test so the submission score was adjusted suitably.

It seems that after Damon Jerome left the ring, hidden gremlins and ghosts appeared and the next four combinations, IPS Don Marissimo and Larissa Pauluis of Belgium, Ratzinger V and Jennifer Hoffmann of the USA, Schickeria 8 and Helen Langehanenberg of Germany and IPS Amazing Star with Holland’s Theo Hanzon all had major issues. IPS Amazing Star was actually excused, the resistance through his test became so great. The Dutch combination of TC Athene and Gerdine Maree, who went immediately prior to Damon Jerome  also had significant spooking.

We were reminded that “this can happen in  a World Championship for YOUNG horses, especially when it is so windy.”

The CDI3* Grand Prix Special was an all-German affair at the top, won by Kristina Sprehe and Desperados with 71.583 per cent, Nadine Capellmann on Elvis VA second with 70.875 per cent and Isabell Werth and Don Johnson third with 69.938 per cent.

Placed competitors
1.	39	Astrix	Scholtens, Emmelie	NED		2000 EUR	Wertnote 8.7
	R 6-j.H v.Obelisk/M.v.Olivi/KWPN/102ZN63/B: Stal Perlee,
2.	251	Damon Jerome	Gräf, Uta	GER		1100 EUR	Wertnote 8.68
	F 6-j.H v.Damon Hill/M.v.Guy Laroche/RHLD/102ZR87/B: Hitschold Prof.Dr.,Thomas
3.	785	St. Emilion	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		800 EUR	Wertnote 8.42
	R 6-j.H v.Sandro Hit/M.v.Ehrenwort/WESTF/103HL99/B: Ullrich,Christina
4.	547	Lezard	Bouten, Matthias	GER		400 EUR	Wertnote 8.4
	F 6-j.W v.Lord Loxley I/M.v.Riccione/RHLD/103HL97/B: Winter-Schulze,Madeleine
5.	631	Presidents Avanti	Lieren, Laurens van	NED		200 EUR	Wertnote 8.38
	B 6-j.H v.United/M.v.Farrington/KWPN/103IA54/B: Kooiman,C. & President Dressage S
6.	478	Horatio	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		150 EUR	Wertnote 8.22
	R 6-j.W v.Hochadel/M.v.Matcho AA/HANN/103HM07/B: Dressurstall Rothenberger/Erlenh
7.	490	Isac	Telde, Minna	SWE		150 EUR	Wertnote 8.0
	B 6-j.H v.Hip Hop/M.v.Master/S.WBL/102ZW12/B: Telde,Minna
7.	420	Freak Blue Phantom OLD	Möller, Kristine	DEN		150 EUR	Wertnote 8.0
	B 6-j.H v.Florencio I/M.v.Feinbrand/OLD/102ZF03/B: Thorsen,Jens
9.	2	Aaron	Freund, Jana	GER		150 EUR	Wertnote 7.96
	DF 6-j.H v.Florencio I/M.v.Record/KWPN/B: Livens,Louis
10.	832	Torveslettens Stamina	Helgstrand, Andreas	DEN		150 EUR	Wertnote 7.94
	SCHI 6-j.S v.Stedinger/M.v.Carano/DK/102ZM91/B: Rugaard,Pernille
11.	778	Soulmate	Kirchhoff, Senta	GER		150 EUR	Wertnote 7.56
	DB 6-j.W v.Sandro Hit/M.v.Calypso II/HANN/103HM63/B: Kirchhoff,Senta
12.	825	TC Athene	Maree, Gerdine	NED		150 EUR	Wertnote 7.54
	F 6-j.H v.United/M.v.Jazz/KWPN/103IA34/B: Coomans,T.J.M. & Maree,G.M.
13.	488	I.P.S. Don Massimo	Pauluis, Larissa	BEL		150 EUR	Wertnote 7.02
	DB 6-j.H v.Don Larino/M.v.Santander H/OLD/102ZE56/B: Pauluis,Larissa
14.	660	Ratzinger V	Hoffmann, Jennifer	USA		150 EUR	Wertnote 6.94
	DB 6-j.H v.Riccione/M.v.Pablo/OE.WB/B: Hoffmann,Jennifer
15.	723	Schickeria	Langehanenberg, Helen	GER		150 EUR	Wertnote 6.8
	F 6-j.S v.Sir Donnerhall I/M.v.Weltmeyer/WESTF/103HH09/B: Max-Theurer,Elisabeth
Other, non-placed competitors
16.	17	I.P.S. Amazing Star	Hanzon, Theo	NED			eliminated
	DB 6-j.H v.Flemmingh/M.v.Ferro/KWPN/103IA64/B: Uytert,J.M. van