Matthias Alexander Rath & Foundation Win Mannheim Nürnberger Burg-Pokal

MANNHEIM, Germany, May 7, 2017–Matthias Alexander Rath and Foundation won the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal Prix St. Georges Special Sunday to qualify for a start in the final of the German championship series for seven to nine-year-old horses.

Matthias and the nine-year-old Hanoverian stallion scored 77.366 per cent for the win in the second of 12 qualifiers for the final in Frankfurt in December. Sweden’s Malin Nilsson and won the inaugural 2017 event.

The victory by Matthias and Foundation (Fidertanz x De Vito) owned by Paul Schockemöhle came after 14 months of CDI small tour competitions in which the pair won 10 out of 13 starts.

Helen Langehanenberg, the 2012 German team Olympic rider, was second on Brisbane FE on 75.780 per cent with multi Olympian Dorothee Schneider and Sezuan third on 73.122 per cent. Dorothee and Sezuan claimed the world young horse triple championships by winning the five, six and seven-year-old divisions in the years from 2014 to 2016.

Results:

Placed competitors							(E)	(H)	(C)	(M)	(B)	Total
1.	473	Foundation	Rath, Matthias Alexander	GER		€900	309.5	314.0	316.5	318.5	327.5	1586.0 points
	B 9-j.H v.Fidertanz/M.v.De Vito/HANN/104EO67/B: Schockemöhle,Paul						75.488 %	76.586 %	77.195 %	77.683 %	79.878 %	77.366 %
							1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
2.	461	Brisbane FE	Langehanenberg, Helen	GER		700	305.0	306.5	313.0	312.5	316.5	1553.5 points
	F 8-j.S v.Belissimo M/M.v.Fürst Heinrich/HANN/B: Ferdinand,Carl Louis u.Paul Ferr						74.390 %	74.756 %	76.341 %	76.219 %	77.195 %	75.780 %
							2.	3.	2.	2.	2.
3.	475	Sezuan	Schneider, Dorothee	GER		450	297.5	307.5	294.0	304.0	296.0	1499.0 points
	DB 8-j.H v.Zack/M.v.Don Schufro/DWB/104KL66/B: Gestüt Peterhof/Prof.Edwin Kohl						72.561 %	75.000 %	71.707 %	74.146 %	72.195 %	73.122 %
							4.	2.	3.	3.	4.
4.	453	Birkhof’s Don Röschen FBW	Casper, Nicole	GER		300	299.5	281.0	291.0	297.0	299.0	1467.5 points
	F 8-j.S v.Don Diamond/M.v.Landioso/BAWUE/B: Gestuet Birkhof						73.048 %	68.536 %	70.975 %	72.439 %	72.926 %	71.585 %
							3.	8.	4.	4.	3.
5.	466	Sunfire	Lindner, Ann-Kathrin	GER		250	277.0	287.0	282.0	271.0	275.0	1392.0 points
	DB 8-j.H v.San Amour/M.v.Freudenfeuer/BAWUE/B: Andre,Volkmar Reinhart						67.561 %	70.000 %	68.780 %	66.097 %	67.073 %	67.902 %
							5.	4.	5.	10.	7.
6.	456	Friedolin	Klenk, Sabine	GER		200	274.5	280.0	273.0	282.0	273.5	1383.0 points
	DB 8-j.W v.Fidertanz/M.v.De Niro/OLDBG/105GY24/B: Henning,Friedhelm						66.951 %	68.292 %	66.585 %	68.780 %	66.707 %	67.463 %
							7.	9.	8.	7.	8.
7.	477	DSP Dauphin	Stieglmaier, Franziska	GER		100	268.5	284.0	278.0	279.0	272.0	1381.5 points
	B 8-j.S v.Damon Hill/M.v.Montezuma/105LC72/B: Stieglmaier,Dr. Erika						65.488 %	69.268 %	67.805 %	68.049 %	66.341 %	67.390 %
							9.	5.	6.	8.	10.
8.	457	Fit for Fun	Kniha, Karoline	GER		100	261.5	283.0	273.0	285.0	277.0	1379.5 points
	B 9-j.W v.For Compliment/M.v.Prince Thatch xx/HANN/B: Kniha,Karoline						63.781 %	69.025 %	66.586 %	69.513 %	67.561 %	67.293 %
							11.	6.	8.	6.	6.
Other, non-placed competitors
9.	455	Heros	Grimminger, Madeline	GER			268.0	277.5	276.0	285.5	267.5	1374.5 points
	B 9-j.H v.Hotline/M.v.Negro (Novabor)/DWB/B: Grimminger,Dr. Anne						65.366 %	67.683 %	67.317 %	69.634 %	65.244 %	67.049 %
							10.	10.	7.	5.	11.
10.	483	Feeling Good H	Gräf, Uta	GER			276.0	274.5	267.5	276.0	273.0	1367.0 points
	B 9-j.W v.Fürst Grandios/M.v.Rivero II/HANN/105JK42/B: Hitschold,Prof.Dr. Thomas						67.317 %	66.951 %	65.244 %	67.317 %	66.585 %	66.683 %
							6.	11.	11.	9.	9.
11.	471	Drip Drop	Plaster, Nadine	GER			274.5	267.5	272.0	271.0	278.5	1363.5 points
	R 7-j.W v.Dressage Royal/M.v.Rouletto/OLDBG/B: Fischer,Elmar						66.951 %	65.244 %	66.341 %	66.097 %	67.927 %	66.512 %
							7.	12.	10.	10.	5.
12.	469	Despereaux	Loon, Sandra van	GER			251.5	282.0	266.5	259.0	257.5	1316.5 points
	DF 8-j.W v.Don Diamond/M.v.Abanos/BAWUE/104WH37/B: van Loon,Sandra						61.342 %	68.781 %	65.000 %	63.171 %	62.805 %	64.220 %
							12.	7.	12.	12.	12.