It's - maybe - a true comeback: totally absent from competition since the European Championships in Hagen in 2021, ridden at that time by Adelinde Cornelissen, Governor - possibly - reappeared in this last hours with a new rider; a return co-discovered by Eurodressage and Dressprod. Approved by the KWPN in 2014, 11th in the 4-Year-Old Championship in the Netherlands in 2015, 5th in the 5-Year-Old World Championship in 2016, Reserve World Champion for 6-Year-Olds in 2017, Rese
Although only one rider can occupy the highest step of the podium, there were effectively two winners from Friday night’s Lövsta Stuteri World Cup™ Grand Prix Freestyle. The German anthem played for Frederic Wandres’ top score of 76.24% with Hof Kasselmann’s Verrenberg, but it also felt like a victory for second-placed Kevin Kohmann (USA), whose result in the showcase class of Week 10 at the 2026 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) secured him a start in April’s FEI Worl
It's the same scenario every year, as the candidates for the World Cup Final, three weeks later, are held in 's-Hertogenbosch. Between those competing there to prepare for the Final, those close to the top nine who will qualify in the Western European League, and those absent, anxiously awaiting the results to see if they'll be heading to Texas, the Bois-le-Duc leg is always full of suspense. And this year, the icing on the cake is that it hosts not only world number one Just
While all eyes are on the Netherlands and the World Cup in 's-Hertogenbosch scheduled for this afternoon (see HERE ), further south in Ornago, dressage is also in the spotlight. Twenty-four horse and rider combinations started this morning in the Grand Prix qualifier for the Special. Although live scores are not yet available, the podium positions are already known. After Bordeaux, Australian Simone Pearce continues her winning streak, which could send her to the World Champ
Hexagon's Ich Weiss, previously ridden in CDI Grand Prix level by he Dutch rider Thamar Zweistra, has been sold to the United States. Bred by the late Leunis van Lieren, this son of Rubiquil & Negro made his international competition debut in Le Mans in February 2020 in Small Tour classes; a competition he returned to the following year for his CDI Grand Prix debut. Selected for the Dutch team for the Nations Cup in Aachen in 2021, Thamar Zweistra & Hexagon's Ich Weiss qualif
This week and the last few days have been favorable for births! Besides Dalera, the former star of Jessica von Bredow Werndl, two other Grand Prix mares also gave birth to their first foals: Elvive and Unazalée de Massa. Tuschinski x Don Schufro crossed mare, Elvive won a bronze medal at the 6-Year-Old Championship in the Netherlands with Veronique Roerink. Acquired by the Oatley family in 2017, the bay mare competed in the Small Tour level in Germany that same year, then in