Dressage-News

WELLINGTON, Florida, Mar. 12, 2025–The $150,000 CDI5* at the Global Dressage Festival is the richest and most competitive dressage event in the United States this year with America’s top ranked three-time Olympian Adrienne Lyle on Helix and Germany’s Evelyn Eger on Tabledance as the highest earning rider in the lineup of combinations representing seven nations. And the CDI3* has the U.S. Olympic partnership of Marcus Orlob on the spectacular but feisty Jane.

Adrienne and the 13-year-old gelding Helix has the only 80+% score in the Americas this year and the rider is ranked 20th in the world, Helix No. 22 in the FEI system that lists riders and horses separately since the FEI decided partnerships should not be recognized.

Evelyn in her first year in mostly sunny Wellington in winter instead of her damp and chilly home in Hagen, Germany has earned $14,750 in competing Tabledance on which she is entered in the 5* and Dancing Darkness to be in the 3*.

Among the challengers in the 5* is fellow German Felicitas Hendricks on her Drombusch OLD, the 2024 victor in the 5* Grand Prix and Freestyle.

So, too, is Kevin Kohmann of Wellington on Dünensee, the horse on which he will join Adrienne at the World Cup Final in Basel, Switzerland in three weeks. Basel will be Kevin’s second world championship since he switched to riding for the United States from his native Germany. His first was the 2024 Final in Saudi Arabia.

Up and coming combination of Kasey Perry-Glass, the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist and 2018 World Games silver medalist on U.S. teams, and her increasingly successful Heartbeat W.P. is in the 5* as is seven-time Olympian and long-time Wellington winter competitor Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén of Sweden on the improving Devanto.