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After Wellington and Fontainebleau, the FEI Nations Cup circuit stops this week in Lier, Belgium; a Flemish leg organized for the second consecutive year. Won by Belgium in 2025, Jeroen van Lent's riders faced off this time against 30 other pairs from Sweden, Germany, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the Netherlands; 7 teams therefore started the team competition. The overwhelming favorites, Justin Verboomen and Zonik Plus, unsurprisingly lived up to expectation

Show Star, the stallion from the Holkenbrink stables, has died at the age of 28. Bred by Tanja Brandtner, this son of Sandro Hit and Feinbrand won the German 3-Year-Old Championship in 2001 and then finished second in the 4-Year-Old Championship the following year, ridden by Henrike Sommer. Later, trained by Oliver Oelrich, Show Star finished second in the 2007 Nuremberg Burgpokal Final, a circuit for the best Small Tour young horses, and then competed in the Grand Prix in Ge

Long-time international rider, member of the Spanish team at the European Championships in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2017, and the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, Jordi Domingo Coll now also holds a new position: technical advisor to Canada. Some remember him with his stallion Prestige with whom he dominated the Sunshine Tour in 2009, others with Statesman which allowed him to participate in the World Championships for 6-year-olds in 2013. Now almost 45 years old, Jordi Domingo Col

Justin Verboomen returns to familiar ground this week. At Belgium Dressage Events in Lier, he will once again compete with his remarkable stallion Zonik Plus in the FEI Dressage Nations Cup™, a competition that has become closely connected to special memories for the Belgian combination. Will they manage to make history once again? “Two years ago, it all really started here in the Medium Tour,” Verboomen says two days before the Nations Cup begins. “Then came the victory with

The Brandenburg stallion Samba Hit II died at the age of 24. Born at Neustadt Dosse stud, this son of Sandro Hit and Brentano II, full brother to Samba Hit I, III, IV, and the renowned mare Poetin, was approved in his studbook in 2004. He began competing in 2005 with Christian Flamm and later with Maik Kohlschmidt. Sold in Belgium in 2010 to the Verhesen family, Samba Hit II competed in the country with Mieke Lunskens, Charlotte Verhesen, and Jef Coenegrachts, reaching the

Like France, the American Federation unveiled in recent hours the list of its preferred pairs for the World Championships in Aachen. There are 8 of them: Meagan Davis & Toronto Lightfoot Ashley Holzer & Hawtins San Floriana Jordan LaPlaca & Gold Play Anna Marek & Fayvel Kasey Perry-Glass & Heartbeat W.P Christian Simonson & Fleau de Baian et Indian Rock Geñay Vaughn & Gino Missing at the moment are: Marcus Orlob & Jane, Adriene Lyle & Helix, but also Ellesse Gundersen, who