Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

FRITZENS, Austria, July 4, 2014–Steffen Peters of the United States and Rosamunde celebrated the Fourth of July with a victory in the Schindlhof CDI4* Prix St. Georges Friday, and did it with a personal best score.

The seven-year-old Rhinelander mare scored 75.105 per cent to give what Steffen described as “a real Fourth of July party” in the first competition to kick off the first World Equestrian Games selection trial for eight United States horses and riders and five Australian riders.

German Olympic rider Dorothee Schneider and the eight-year-old Showtime placed second on 74.789 per cent and fellow German Karin Rehbein on Royal Princess M in third on 71.395 per cent.

Rosamunde was competing outside the United States for the first time since Akiko Yamazaki’s Four Winds Farm bought the mare as a successor to Ravel and Legolas and since winning the United States Intermediate championship in Gladstone, New Jersey last month.

The horse’s previous best result at a CDI Prix St. Georges was 73.772 per cent in California in May.

“She has been simply amazing traveling from Gladstone to Europe, three days of super easy work in Belgium then starting on the fourth day right where we left off in New Jersey,” said Steffen of San Diego, California.

“That’s what’s so valuable in a horse–consistency. Here we were in new surroundings and on the first day Legolas was more distracted than she was.

“It’s a wonderful feeling that I didn’t have to make any adjustments compared wth Gladstone.

“It was a clean test. Rosie gave me a wonderful feeling.”

He hopes to keep the same feeling through the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany in two weeks.

Rosie, as Steffen calls her, does have a bit of a problem–she and Legolas are so attached that one horse cannot be left in the stall when the other one leaves. She’s fine, he said, as long as she is with “big brother Legolas.”

Althugh he is working Grand Prix movements at home–they have completed 13 one-tempi changes and the piaffe os”quite nice”–he is not going to rush development of Rosie but keep her at small tour for the Pan American Games next year when she will be eight years old.

“That’s a perfect age to be thinking about the Grand Prix.”

Steffen quoted Einstein as saying”imagination is better than knowledge.’

“I imagine quite a bit.”

Results:

Prix St. Georges

Placed competitors							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	52	Rosamunde	Peters, Steffen	USA		500.00 EUR	285.5	281.0	283.5	286.0	291.0	1427.0 points
	B 7y.S /Rock Forever/Fidermark/RHLD/103MZ45/ Four Winds Farm						75.131 %	73.947 %	74.605 %	75.263 %	76.579 %	75.105 %
							1.	2.	2.	1.	1.
2.	61	Showtime	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		400.00 EUR	280.0	292.0	286.0	279.0	284.0	1421.0 points
	DB 8y.W /Sandro Hit/Rotspon/HANN/103HX90/ Kippert,Gabriele						73.684 %	76.842 %	75.263 %	73.421 %	74.736 %	74.789 %
							2.	1.	1.	3.	2.
3.	55	Royal Princess M	Rehbein, Karin	GER		300.00 EUR	274.0	274.5	264.0	267.5	276.5	1356.5 points
	DF 10y.S /Royal Olymp/Donnerhall/OLD/103UY95/ Kallmeyer, Marion						72.106 %	72.237 %	69.474 %	70.395 %	72.763 %	71.395 %
							3.	3.	6.	6.	3.
4.	75	Wiener Classic	Bruns, Wibke	GER		200.00 EUR	272.0	261.0	258.0	281.0	273.5	1345.5 points
	R 8y.S /Sandro Hit/Weltmeyer/OLD/103PW18/ Max-Theurer, VIctoria						71.579 %	68.684 %	67.895 %	73.948 %	71.974 %	70.816 %
							4.	9.	9.	2.	5.
5.	62	Soliere	Carrascosa, Borja	ESP		160.00 EUR	264.5	262.0	267.5	271.5	276.5	1342.0 points
	R 10y.H /Sandro Hit/Donnerhall/HANN/102ZL72/ van Dyk, Natascha						69.606 %	68.948 %	70.395 %	71.448 %	72.764 %	70.632 %
							7.	8.	4.	5.	3.
6.	54	Royal Happiness OLD	Palm, Stefanie	AUT		120.00 EUR	267.5	262.5	261.0	273.0	265.0	1329.0 points
	SCH 10y.W /Royal Diamond/Consul/OLD/103NO27/ Dr. Renee Palm						70.394 %	69.079 %	68.684 %	71.842 %	69.736 %	69.947 %
							5.	6.	7.	4.	7.
7.	6	Boogie Woogie	Hanna, Mary	AUS		90.00 EUR	260.5	270.0	269.0	263.5	260.0	1323.0 points
	DB 8y.W /du Moulin/Forte/KWPN/103ZI07/ Hanna, Mary u.Rob						68.553 %	71.053 %	70.790 %	69.343 %	68.421 %	69.632 %
							8.	4.	3.	13.	9.
8.	74	Whitney	Ridder, Jill de	GER		90.00 EUR	248.0	262.5	265.0	267.5	264.5	1307.5 points
	DB 8y.S /Wolkenstürmer/Fortissimo/RHLD/103DF83/ Naude Dr.,Jaco						65.263 %	69.079 %	69.737 %	70.395 %	69.605 %	68.816 %
							16.	6.	5.	6.	8.
9.	21	Dr.House	Bahn, Marie-Theres	GER		70.00 EUR	265.5	259.0	250.0	264.5	266.5	1305.5 points
	DF 9y.W /Don Schufro/Krack C/OLD/103UW01/ Bahn,Ronald						69.869 %	68.158 %	65.790 %	69.606 %	70.132 %	68.711 %
							6.	12.	16.	12.	6.
10.	60	Schickeria	Bruns, Wibke	GER		70.00 EUR	259.0	261.0	261.0	265.0	257.5	1303.5 points
	F 9y.S /Sir Donnerhall I/Weltmeyer/WESTF/103HH09/ Max-Theurer, Elisabeth						68.158 %	68.684 %	68.684 %	69.737 %	67.763 %	68.605 %
							9.	9.	7.	10.	11.
Other, non-placed competitors
11.	47	Revolverheld NRW	Plönzke, Anja	GER			255.0	266.5	252.5	265.0	255.0	1294.0 points
	B 8y.H /Rockwell/Landstreicher/WESTF/103RG46/ Plönzke, Anja						67.105 %	70.131 %	66.447 %	69.737 %	67.105 %	68.105 %
							11.	5.	12.	10.	12.
12.	50	Rolex	Lingelbach, Marc	GER			252.0	257.0	253.5	267.0	258.0	1287.5 points
	HLB 18y.W /Rodgau/Matterhorn/HESS/103AJ55/ Lingelbach, Ursula						66.316 %	67.631 %	66.710 %	70.263 %	67.895 %	67.763 %
							13.	14.	11.	8.	10.
13.	12	de Chirico	van Olst, Anne	DEN			242.0	260.0	255.0	265.5	253.0	1275.5 points
	B 10y.H /Dolany/Linaro/HOLST/103XH18/ Mevr. M. Al Khalifa						63.685 %	68.421 %	67.106 %	69.869 %	66.579 %	67.132 %
							19.	11.	10.	9.	14.
14.	45	Querido	Gruber, Franziska	AUT			256.5	255.0	252.0	256.0	252.0	1271.5 points
	F 14y.W /Quattro B/Rohdiamant/OLD/103PS10/ Franziska Gruber						67.500 %	67.105 %	66.316 %	67.368 %	66.316 %	66.921 %
							10.	15.	13.	15.	15.
15.	18	Dolana	Rochelt, Teresa	AUT			253.0	251.0	248.0	257.5	253.5	1263.0 points
	F 10y.S /Dolany/Caletto I/HOLST/103QD96/ Teresa Rochelt						66.579 %	66.053 %	65.263 %	67.763 %	66.711 %	66.474 %
							12.	16.	17.	14.	13.
16.	83	Kasimir TSF	Brune, Bernadette	GER			251.5	257.5	248.0	249.5	240.5	1247.0 points
	B 12y.H /IVernel/Charly CHaplin/TRAK./103DC82/ Brune, Bernadette						66.185 %	67.764 %	65.264 %	65.658 %	63.290 %	65.632 %
							14.	13.	17.	18.	19.
17.	81	Wyoming	Konyot, Tina	USA			250.0	249.5	250.5	249.0	241.5	1240.5 points
	B 13y.W /Weltmeyer/Donnerhall/HANN/USA40606/ Bruce Grivetti						65.789 %	65.657 %	65.921 %	65.526 %	63.552 %	65.289 %
							15.	17.	15.	19.	18.
18.	11	Darius Rubin	Kottas-Heldenberg, Caroline	AUT			245.0	237.5	251.5	251.5	250.0	1235.5 points
	F 9y.W /Dressage Royal/Rohdiamant/OLD/104JN96/ Mag. Astrid Anna Artner						64.473 %	62.500 %	66.184 %	66.184 %	65.789 %	65.026 %
							17.	19.	14.	16.	16.
19.	77	Wocelli	Dürrheim, Sabine	AUT			239.0	248.5	245.5	250.5	248.0	1231.5 points
	F 12y.W /Worldly/Maurice/HANN/104CP04/ Di. Thomas Wimpissinger						62.895 %	65.395 %	64.605 %	65.921 %	65.263 %	64.816 %
							20.	18.	19.	17.	17.
20.	84	Junimond	Gabriel, Pia	AUT			243.5	232.0	229.0	234.0	231.5	1170.0 points
	B 10y.W /Jazz/Flemmingh/KWPN/104CN33/ Dr. CHrista-Maria Gabriel						64.079 %	61.053 %	60.263 %	61.579 %	60.921 %	61.579 %
							18.	20.	20.	20.	20.
21.	26	Forget Me Not	Merveldt, Anna	IRL			retired
	F 10y.H /Feinsinn/Warkant/DT.PF/104IN01/ Anna Merveldt