Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

FRITZENS, Austria, July 5, 2014–Steffen Peters decided to push Rosamunde as a warmup for the prestigious World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany in two weeks and it worked so well Saturday that the seven-year-old mare delivered her best performance so far to win the Schindlhof CDI4* Intermediate 1.

Steffen of San Diego, California and the Rhinelander mare scored 76.026 per cent that not only was another advance on their improving results but was the seventh win in eight starts since the pair began competing internationally in March.

German Olympian Dorothee Schneider on Showtime tried too hard to make up for Friday’s second to the American pair in the Prix St. Georges and placed third on 71.316 per cent behind fellow German Karin Rehbein on Royal Princess M with 72.711 per cent. Karin retired from Grand Prix competition and this was her last small tour event.

Jo Hinemann, who coaches Steffen, said the pair needed to try to ride the test they want to do at Aachen.

They did so–a more powerful trot, canter pirouettes that were the best to date, super walk and no mistakes.

“It was the most risk ever taken with her,” Steffen said. “I knew Dorothee (Schneider) would go for it and she did, but unfortunately for her she had some mistakes.

“It’s nice to see this level of competition at the Prix St. Georges. This is fantastic.

“It’s always good before a major competition to have a good feeling. That happened in Gladstone with Legolas.

“Rosie is feeling absolutely fantastic to go into Aachen.”

But he cautioned that the horse has never seen a gigantic stadium that the Deutsche Bank Stadium has become with an expansion because of the growth of popularity of dressage AT Aachen.

“Hopefully there won’t be any surprises,” Steffen said. “My wish list is to go into Aachen like she did today.”

Akiko Yamazaki, whose Four Winds Farm owns Rosamunde, is in neighboring Germany with her daughter Miki who has been named a member of the American vaulting team for the world championships as part of the WEG in Normandy, France next month.

“You can see the excitement in her texts,” Steffen laughed… “Super Rosie, Princess Rosie, possibly Queen Rosie.

“It’s super exciting.”

Results:

Intermediate 1

Placed competitors							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	52	Rosamunde	Peters, Steffen	USA		500.00 EUR	289.0	291.0	283.0	300.0	281.5	1444.5 points
	B 7y.S /Rock Forever/Fidermark/RHLD/103MZ45/ Four Winds Farm						76.052 %	76.579 %	74.473 %	78.947 %	74.079 %	76.026 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	55	Royal Princess M	Rehbein, Karin	GER		400.00 EUR	275.0	278.5	275.5	276.5	276.0	1381.5 points
	DF 10y.S /Royal Olymp/Donnerhall/OLD/103UY95/ Kallmeyer, Marion						72.369 %	73.290 %	72.500 %	72.764 %	72.632 %	72.711 %
							2.	2.	3.	2.	2.
3.	61	Showtime	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		300.00 EUR	260.5	276.0	277.0	274.5	267.0	1355.0 points
	DB 8y.W /Sandro Hit/Rotspon/HANN/103HX90/ Kippert,Gabriele						68.553 %	72.632 %	72.895 %	72.237 %	70.263 %	71.316 %
							7.	3.	2.	3.	4.
4.	75	Wiener Classic	Bruns, Wibke	GER		200.00 EUR	268.5	268.5	268.5	262.5	264.0	1332.0 points
	R 8y.S /Sandro Hit/Weltmeyer/OLD/103PW18/ Max-Theurer, VIctoria						70.658 %	70.658 %	70.658 %	69.079 %	69.473 %	70.105 %
							3.	4.	4.	4.	6.
5.	62	Soliere	Carrascosa, Borja	ESP		140.00 EUR	263.5	256.0	262.0	259.5	265.0	1306.0 points
	R 10y.H /Sandro Hit/Donnerhall/HANN/102ZL72/ van Dyk, Natascha						69.342 %	67.369 %	68.948 %	68.290 %	69.737 %	68.737 %
							4.	8.	6.	6.	5.
5.	60	Schickeria	Bruns, Wibke	GER		140.00 EUR	263.5	253.0	259.5	256.5	273.5	1306.0 points
	F 9y.S /Sir Donnerhall I/Weltmeyer/WESTF/103HH09/ Max-Theurer, Elisabeth						69.342 %	66.579 %	68.290 %	67.500 %	71.974 %	68.737 %
							4.	12.	8.	8.	3.
7.	21	Dr.House	Bahn, Marie-Theres	GER		90.00 EUR	252.0	256.0	261.0	262.5	263.0	1294.5 points
	DF 9y.W /Don Schufro/Krack C/OLD/103UW01/ Bahn,Ronald						66.316 %	67.369 %	68.685 %	69.079 %	69.211 %	68.132 %
							12.	8.	7.	4.	8.
8.	18	Dolana	Rochelt, Teresa	AUT		90.00 EUR	254.0	263.0	259.0	256.0	257.5	1289.5 points
	F 10y.S /Dolany/Caletto I/HOLST/103QD96/ Teresa Rochelt						66.842 %	69.210 %	68.157 %	67.368 %	67.763 %	67.868 %
							10.	5.	10.	9.	9.
9.	83	Kasimir TSF	Brune, Bernadette	GER		70.00 EUR	257.5	263.0	259.5	252.0	250.5	1282.5 points
	B 12y.H /IVernel/Charly CHaplin/TRAK./103DC82/ Brune, Bernadette						67.763 %	69.211 %	68.289 %	66.316 %	65.921 %	67.500 %
							8.	5.	8.	12.	12.
10.	54	Royal Happiness OLD	Palm, Stefanie	AUT		70.00 EUR	257.5	245.0	256.0	255.0	264.0	1277.5 points
	SCH 10y.W /Royal Diamond/Consul/OLD/103NO27/ Dr. Renee Palm						67.763 %	64.474 %	67.369 %	67.105 %	69.474 %	67.237 %
							8.	16.	11.	11.	6.
Other, non-placed competitors
11.	45	Querido	Gruber, Franziska	AUT			248.5	255.5	252.5	251.5	255.5	1263.5 points
	F 14y.W /Quattro B/Rohdiamant/OLD/103PS10/ Franziska Gruber						65.395 %	67.237 %	66.447 %	66.184 %	67.237 %	66.500 %
							15.	10.	14.	13.	10.
12.	11	Darius Rubin	Kottas-Heldenberg, Caroline	AUT			254.0	249.0	253.0	259.0	247.5	1262.5 points
	F 9y.W /Dressage Royal/Rohdiamant/OLD/104JN96/ Mag. Astrid Anna Artner						66.842 %	65.526 %	66.579 %	68.158 %	65.131 %	66.447 %
							10.	14.	13.	7.	14.
13.	47	Revolverheld NRW	Plönzke, Anja	GER			249.0	250.0	255.0	256.0	251.0	1261.0 points
	B 8y.H /Rockwell/Landstreicher/WESTF/103RG46/ Plönzke, Anja						65.526 %	65.789 %	67.105 %	67.368 %	66.052 %	66.368 %
							14.	13.	12.	9.	11.
14.	12	de Chirico	van Olst, Anne	DEN			251.0	257.0	250.0	248.0	247.5	1253.5 points
	B 10y.H /Dolany/Linaro/HOLST/103XH18/ Mevr. M. Al Khalifa						66.053 %	67.632 %	65.790 %	65.263 %	65.132 %	65.974 %
							13.	7.	17.	15.	14.
15.	50	Rolex	Lingelbach, Marc	GER			246.0	248.5	264.0	243.0	249.0	1250.5 points
	HLB 18y.W /Rodgau/Matterhorn/HESS/103AJ55/ Lingelbach, Ursula						64.737 %	65.395 %	69.474 %	63.948 %	65.527 %	65.816 %
							16.	15.	5.	17.	13.
16.	74	Whitney	Ridder, Jill de	GER			262.5	239.0	252.0	239.0	246.0	1238.5 points
	DB 8y.S /Wolkenstürmer/Fortissimo/RHLD/103DF83/ Naude Dr.,Jaco						69.079 %	62.895 %	66.316 %	62.895 %	64.737 %	65.184 %
							6.	18.	15.	19.	17.
17.	77	Wocelli	Dürrheim, Sabine	AUT			246.0	243.5	250.0	251.5	246.5	1237.5 points
	F 12y.W /Worldly/Maurice/HANN/104CP04/ Di. Thomas Wimpissinger						64.737 %	64.079 %	65.790 %	66.185 %	64.869 %	65.132 %
							16.	17.	17.	13.	16.
18.	81	Wyoming	Konyot, Tina	USA			238.0	254.0	250.5	242.0	243.0	1227.5 points
	B 13y.W /Weltmeyer/Donnerhall/HANN/USA40606/ Bruce Grivetti						62.631 %	66.842 %	65.921 %	63.684 %	63.947 %	64.605 %
							19.	11.	16.	18.	19.
19.	26	Forget Me Not	Merveldt, Anna	IRL			244.0	233.5	244.5	246.0	244.0	1212.0 points
	F 10y.H /Feinsinn/Warkant/DT.PF/104IN01/ Anna Merveldt						64.210 %	61.447 %	64.342 %	64.736 %	64.210 %	63.789 %
							18.	19.	19.	16.	18.
20.	84	Junimond	Gabriel, Pia	AUT			not begun
	B 10y.W /Jazz/Flemmingh/KWPN/104CN33/ Dr. CHrista-Maria Gabriel
20.	6	Boogie Woogie	Hanna, Mary	AUS			retired
	DB 8y.W /du Moulin/Forte/KWPN/103ZI07/ Hanna, Mary u.Rob