Week 3 of Florida’s Global Dressage Festival Starts With More Foreign Riders. Mikala Munter to Ride Skyfall, Gift from Her Father, Who Died Day Before Show

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Caroline Chew, the Singapore rider based in Britain, is competing at Florida’s Global Dressage Festival for the first time, on Tribiani, her Olympic and world championship mount, and Blue Hors Zatchmo, that was competed in Wellington with another owner three years ago. Caroline is shown here jogging Tribiani at the CDI4*/3* veterinary inspection. © 2023 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

WELLINGTON, Florida, Jan. 25, 2023–The start lists for international dressage in Florida is living up to its description as a global circuit with German riders narrowing the gap with Canada for the second largest number of riders after the USA, and new riders from Singapore, Hong Kong and Turkey adding meaning to global at top sport.

Eleven of the 16 competitors in the CDI4*, for example, are from outside the U.S., five from European nations, one from South America and one from Singapore.

Frederic Wandres who competed Duke of Britain on Germany’s team at last year’s world championships will ride Bluetooth OLD in the CDI4*, the third year for the Hof Kasselmann rider at Global. © 2023 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com
Anna-Christina Abbelen, a repeat gold medalist on German youth teams, is in her first Global season with Sam Donnerhall. © 2023 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

 

Lars Ligus, on Germany’s top placing Nations Cup team last year, is riding Baron Bollwerk in the CDI* Prix St. Georges. © 2023 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

 

Hong Kong’s Samantha Grace Chan will compete in the Prix St. Georges on DSP Fierro as she did in Wellington in 2022. © 2023 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

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Mikala Münter, a successful rider for Denmark who now rides for USA, with Skyfall, the horse that was a gift from her father. © 2023 Ken Braddick/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

 

Mikala Munter’s father, Klaus, dies in Denmark Wednesday morning before Mikala was scheduled to compete Skyfall,a gift from him, at the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida.

Up until Covid, Mikala’s parents sitited Wellington for a few months every year since the rider moved to Wellington in 2004.

“They loved going to the shows and they got to know so many of the horse show people over the years,” she said.

Mikala is going to Denmark next Monday.