Today, Sunday, great sport was once again offered at the Bundeschampionat. Horses from the land between the seas shone both in the show jumping course on the Burandtwiese and in the Warendorf cross-country.
Five-year-old show jumpers: Gold and silver for Holstein
The new Bundeschampion of the five-year-old show jumpers is Vendigo by Van Gogh-Kannan (Rita Siebke-Baasch). Hannes Ahlmann piloted the Holsteiner to dream scores in a demanding final test at M* level with two rounds. The pair was able to increase the 9.0 from round one to a 9.2 in the second round. "I have had Vendigo for a few months, but in that short time we have already noticed how well we fit together," Hannes Ahlmann was pleased afterwards. The silver medal also went to Holstein, to Cassy by Cicero Z-Contender (Elmar Teves) and Richard Vogel with scores of 8.7 and 9.0. The judging panel praised, among other things, the energetic foaling of the chestnut mare.
Zirocassina T by Zirocco Blue-Cassini II (Marc Tummes) with Hendrik Dowe and Cavallo di Casall-Quiran (Witt Pferdezucht GbR) with Andrea di Silvestro followed in fifth and sixth place. Four of the eight horses qualified for the second round had Holstein pedigrees.
Six-year-old show jumpers
Ten Holsteiner horses had recommended themselves for the final jumping competition for six-year-old show jumpers, a demanding medium (M**) level jumping competition with jump-off, over two qualifications. The jump-off was won by Winnetou by VDL Harley-Kannan (France Zanetti) and Alexandra Witt, who had already impressed in the previous tests. A jump-off at the last obstacle of the jump-off course prevented an even better placing than ninth place.
Eventing: Federal Champion again: Cascoblanco
They did it again: Pia Leuwer and the Holsteiner grey stallion Cascoblanco by Cascadello-Sir Shostakovich xx (Manfred Johannsen) won again after 2022 in Warendorf. With the dream marks of 9.0 from dressage and jumping, they competed in the final cross-country. And also on the military course, the two convinced in the six-year-old eventing horses. They received a score of 8.6 for their outstanding performance in the medium (M) level cross-country test. Judge Thies Kaspareit commented, "We were presented with Cascoblanco, a very highly talented eventing horse with an improbable quality at the jumps." Janet Maas also placed seventh overall with the Holsteiner gelding Dealas by Dinken-Colman (Martina Wirtz), followed by Konstantin Harting and Botswana by Big Star-Cormint (Dieter Pingel) in tenth place.
In the five-year-old event horses, Torben Mölleken in the saddle of Dinko by Dinken-Cormint (Caroline Kröger) just missed the podium. The pair completed the final test of a cross-country horse class L with a score of 9.0 and received an individual score of 9.5 for rideability.
All results can be found here.
Photos: Johanna Voth, Equitaris Photos
