WORLD EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL
CHIO Aachen

The Course Designer, Frank Rothenberger, said it before the jump-off of the Rolex Grand Prix at the CHIO Aachen 2019: Kent Farrington is one of the fastest riders in the world. The words of the master of the obstacles proved to prophetic.

Felix Haßmann and the SAP-Prize, that’s a good combination! In 2017, the 33-year-old already came second in the competition, this time he crossed the finish line first, both times with his speedy partner, SL Brazonado.

The Dutch four-in-hand drivers and the DHL Nations Cup at the CHIO Aachen, go together like a horse and carriage. For the twelfth time in a row the Oranje drivers won the team classification.

There is no better compliment that the show-jumper for the USA, Beezie Madden, could make a horse than comparing it with her Olympic gold medal-winning horse, Authentic. They are big hoof steps, that Madden’s KWPN-bred gelding, Garant, are to follow in. He took the first step today in the Sparkassen-Youngsters-Cup.

It is her 50th birthday and Isabell Werth has won the Deutsche Bank Prize again - for the 13th time. At the World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen, her teammates Dorothe Schneider and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl placed second and third.

The Lavazza-Cup is the triathlon of the CHIO Aachen. Each team comprises of a four-in-hand-driver, an eventer and a show-jumper. Six trios took part tonight. And they really electrified the Soers!

It seems that British dressage riders, whose forenames are Charlotte, seem to be guaranteed to obtain scores of 80 percent upwards in the dressage arena. First there was Charlotte Dujardin, now it is Charlotte Fry. Today, she claimed the victory in the Intermédiaire I, the WOTAX-Prize with her World Champion, Glamourdale.

The Danish rider, Cathrine Dufour and her long-standing successful four-legged partner, Cassidy, were favourites to win the LUMILEDS-Prize, the Grand Prix Freestyle of the CDI4* Tour. And that’s precisely what they did and had a great deal of fun to boot.