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Till now owned by Gestüt Schafhof, Destacado FRH, ridden by Matthias Alexander Rath, will now be ridden by a german young rider. Born and raised at Heinrich Gießelmann's farm, the father of international rider Jan-Dirk Gießelmann, who presented him for Hanoverian studbook approval in 2015, this son of Desperados FRH and Londonderry was then acquired by Gestüt Schafhof. Ridden by Matthias Alexander Rath since the summer of 2017, he represented Germany at the World Championshi

Almost two years after he arrived in Normandy, Chippendale will make his competition return this week, in Le Mans. He is undeniably associated to the van Olst stables: bred by P. van de Brandt, Chippendale started competing in the Netherlands in 2011 with Eric van den Wildenberg, finishing 4th in the Dutch 4yo Championship. Joining later Severo Jurado Lopez, based at that time in Den Hout, Chippendale participated in the 2012 World Championships for 5-year-olds and finished 8

Despite the sale of Djembe de Hus (see HERE ), Justin Verboomen remains firmly established at the top of the world hierarchy and retains his number one position this month: the Belgian is now announced for the World Cup in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, where he already participated last year (photo). With 1846 points, Justin Verboomen leads shortly Isabell Werth with 1835 points and Charlotte Fry with 1801 points. Among the major changes, Carina Cassoe Kruth jumps fro

Starting respectively in the Grand Prix Special and the freestyle, the German Katharina Hemmer and the Belgian Larissa Pauluis won this afternoon in Lier. Despite being distracted at his first halt, Denoix once again demonstrated the consistency of his work and his desire to excel. Under the expert eyes of Hubertus Schmidt, Monica Theodorescu, and Henrike Lochthowe, the chestnut gelding made no mistakes, although he could have maintained his neck a bit higher during the piaff

Four years after being partly sold to Madeleine Winter Schulze for Isabell Werth, Majestic Taonga is now closed to Grand Prix. This son of Toto Jr and Jazz, born in the Netherlands at Willeke Bos's stud farm, was approved by the KWPN and then the DWB in 2020. Presented only once in Denmark, for Andreas Helgstrand stables, in a 4-year-old class in September 2021 by Merita Hagren, the stallion moved to Isabell Werth's yard at the age of 5. He then joined the string of horses of

After a 3* Grand Prix largely dominated by Germany (see HERE ), today no less than 27 combinations took part in the 4* Grand Prix, with again some serious German contenders but also Larissa Pauluis and her Flambeau who were expected to play spoiler against this possible hegemony! Katharina Hemmer & Denoix are back in action: the German rider working with and for Hubertus Schmidt finished 4th yesterday with Special Gold PCH. Not perfectly square in his halt before the rein bac