Dressage-News

By KENNETH J. BRADDICK

BASEL, Switzerland, April 3, 2025–Dressage moves to World Cup center stage Friday, a day after training began well before sunrise and a veterinary check that saw the lineup possibly cut to 16 riders and horses representing 12 nations. Britain’s Charlotte “Lottie” Fry and Glamourdale are favored to earn another title to go with the world championship won in 2022.

Lottie, third ranked rider in the world,  and the second ranked 14-year-old Dutch bred stallion, won team and individual bronze medals at last summer’s Paris Olympics as well as the world championship two years earlier followed by team gold and freestyle silver at the European Championships in 2023.

Challengers for the title at the annual championship first held in 1984 as the final of the northern winter indoor circuit and based on the freestyle includes Sandra Sysojeva of Poland on the spectacular-moving black mare Maxima Bella, the youngest horse in the field at age nine.

Others include Norway’s Isabel Freese on the 13-year-old Totilas stallion Total Hope OLD and  Isabell Werth, the most successful equestrian in Olympic history in her 26th World Cup Final, riding DSP Quantaz, a 15-year-old gelding.

Isabell is one of three Germans in the lineup, the same number as the United States.

Adrienne Lyle a three-time Olympian on her Paris Games mount Helix is the top ranked American combination.

Kevin Kohmann who, like Adrienne is based in Wellington, Florida, is riding Dünensee, the Hanoverian gelding he took over after the horse failed to sell in Europe and he rode in the 2024 Final in Saudi Arabia.

Genay Vaughn of Elk Grove, California on Gino is in her first senior championship. She rode in two major under-25 competitions in Europe in 2015 as well as the North American Youth Championships.

Corentin Pottier of France who is scheduled to ride Gotilas du Feuillard, 14-year-old KWPN gelding, did not pass the veterinary examination Thursday but will be examined again Friday to determine whether the horse is fit to compete.

The confirmed lineup for the Grand Prix starting at 13:30 Central European time/7:30am US Eastern time

1. Larissa Pauluis of Belgium on Flambeau, 15-year-old KWPN gelding

2. Carina Scholz of Germany on Soiree d’ Amour, 16-year-old Oldenburg mare

3. Isabel Freese of Norway on Total Hope, 13-year-old Oldenburg stallion

4. Borja Carrascosa of Spain on Sir Hubert, 12-year-old Westfalen gelding

5. Adrienne Lyle of USA on Helix, 13-year-old KWPN gelding

6. Genay Vaughn of USA on Gino, 14-year-old KWPN gelding

7. Pauline Basquin of France on Sertorius de Rima Z IFCE, 15-year-old Zangersheide gelding

8. Anikó Komjáthy-Losonczy of Hungary on Dior S, 17-year-old KWPN gelding

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9. Kevin Kohmann of USA on Duenensee, 16-year-old Hanoverian gelding

10.Mary Hanna of Australia on Ivanhoe, 12-year-old KWPN gelding

11.Jessica Neuhauser of Switzerland on Rockson, 14-year-old Danish Warmblood stallion

12.Charlotte Fry of Great Britain on Glamourdale, 14-year-old KWPN stallion

13.Patrik Kittel of Sweden on Forever Young HRH, 13-year-old Westfalen mare

14.Bianca Nowag-Aulenbrock of Germany on Florine OLD, 13-year-old Oldenburg mare

15.Sandra Sysojeva of Poland on Maxima Bella, 9-year-old Oldenburg mare

16.Isabell Werth of Germany on DSP Quantaz, 15-year-old German Sport Horse gelding