Dressage-News

MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 23, 2019-Germany’ Matthias Bouten and Meggle’s Boston won the Munich Indoor CDI4* Grand Prix Freestyle with a personal best score Saturday for the first double victory of the Big Tour partnership.

Matthias and the 13-year-old KWPN stallion scored 78.900% for the win after capturing the Grand Prix Thursday. This was the third straight win for the duo this month, having taken the Oldenburg CDI4* Grand Prix Freestyle at the beginning of November. Matthias took over the ride on Boston a year ago..

Christoph Koschel, also of Germany, on Ballentines scored 75.490% for second, the same placing as in the Grand Prix in the wrapup competition in Europe before heading to Wellington, Florida for the winter circuit.

Christoph began the Big Tour career of the 11-year-old Hanoverian stallion at the Global Dressage Festival winter circuit in Wellington in 2018. In addition to his own competition schedule, Christoph is coach of Japan’s team for the Tokyo Olympics and expects several combinations contending for a place on the team to compete in Florida.

Lisa Müller on Birkhof’s Dave FBW was third on 74.250% to fill out the top three places for Germany.

Results:

CDI4* Grand Prix Freestyle

1.	301	Meggle’s Boston	Matthias Bouten	GER		€2,600	77.000 %	76.500 %	77.000 %	73.750 %	74.750 %	78.900 %
	dbay / 13y. / S / KWPN / Johnson / Partout / 103DG55 / Georgihof GmbH & Co.KG						82.000 %	83.000 %	82.000 %	83.000 %	80.000 %
							79.500 % (1)	79.750 % (1)	79.500 % (1)	78.375 % (1)	77.375 % (1)
2.	304	Ballentines	Christoph Koschel	GER		2,000	71.500 %	73.000 %	70.750 %	70.000 %	72.250 %	75.490 %
	chest / 11y. / S / HANN / Belissimo M / Weltmeyer / 105BE17 / Koschel Dressage GmbH						78.000 %	79.000 %	81.000 %	79.400 %	80.000 %
							74.750 % (2)	76.000 % (2)	75.875 % (3)	74.700 % (2)	76.125 % (2)
3.	309	Birkhof’s Dave FBW	Lisa Müller	GER		1,750	72.250 %	71.500 %	73.250 %	69.250 %	71.250 %	74.250 %
	bay / 16y. / G / BAWUE / Denaro / Rehberg / 104FC17 / Müller,Lisa						76.000 %	76.000 %	79.000 %	78.000 %	76.000 %
							74.125 % (3)	73.750 % (3)	76.125 % (2)	73.625 % (3)	73.625 % (3)
4.	315	Donna Karacho	Christian Schumach	AUT		1,250	68.500 %	72.250 %	72.000 %	68.500 %	69.750 %	72.400 %
	bay / 12y. / M / WESTF / Don Schufro / Fidermark / 105YZ76 / Ruth Kerky						73.000 %	74.000 %	79.000 %	76.000 %	71.000 %
							70.750 % (6)	73.125 % (4)	75.500 % (4)	72.250 % (4)	70.375 % (6)
5.	313	C’est la Vie	Stefanie Schatz-Weihermüller	GER		1,000	67.750 %	71.500 %	69.500 %	67.750 %	69.000 %	71.750 %
	bay / 12y. / G / KWPN / Johnson / El Corona / 104JQ37 / Weihermüller,Dr. Michael						74.000 %	74.000 %	75.000 %	76.000 %	73.000 %
							70.875 % (5)	72.750 % (5)	72.250 % (5)	71.875 % (5)	71.000 % (5)
6.	311	Bartlgut’s Quebec	Ulrike Prunthaller	AUT		700	69.250 %	69.500 %	67.500 %	64.500 %	67.250 %	70.700 %
	dbay / 12y. / S / Quaterback / Paradiesvogel / 104TD61 / Edda & Wenzel Schmidt						75.000 %	72.000 %	76.000 %	71.000 %	75.000 %
							72.125 % (4)	70.750 % (7)	71.750 % (7)	67.750 % (7)	71.125 % (4)
7.	317	So Dark	Fie Christine Skarsoe	LUX		500	65.500 %	70.500 %	68.250 %	66.500 %	66.750 %	70.150 %
	black / 12y. / M / HANN / San Remo / Rotspon / 105MT19 / Schönhofen Victoria Marie						72.000 %	73.000 %	76.000 %	73.000 %	70.000 %
							68.750 % (7)	71.750 % (6)	72.125 % (6)	69.750 % (6)	68.375 % (8)
8.	314	Biedermeier	Anna Magdalena Scheßl	GER		200	65.500 %	67.250 %	65.000 %	62.500 %	66.000 %	67.825 %
	bay / 15y. / S / WESTF / Belissimo M / Rubinstein I / 102QI51 / Scheßl,Anna Magdalena						71.000 %	69.000 %	70.000 %	70.000 %	72.000 %
							68.250 % (8)	68.125 % (8)	67.500 % (8)	66.250 % (8)	69.000 % (7)