CHIO AACHEN
World Equestrian Festival


June 23rd - July 2nd, 2023

Since 2017 the Australian driver, Boyd Exell who lives in the Netherlands and the Dutch driving sport legend, Ijsbrand Chardon, have been taking it in turns to win the Prize of the Richard Talbot Family. Last year it was Chardon’s turn. So, this year the ball was in Exell’s court.

For 31 years, he has informed the crowd at the Aachen Soers from the judges Tower passionately and with expertise. Today, we will be hearing the voice of Christian Earl of Plettenberg from the last time in the Main Stadium during the Rolex Grand Prix.

The Belgian rider, Wilm Vermeir, competed at the CHIO Aachen for the first time this year. And he has certainly achieved some fantastic results. Especially with his speed specialist, Linguini de la Pomme, who once again left her fellow colleagues trailing behind in the Röwer & Rüb Prize.

The Danish dressage rider, Cathrine Dufour’s weekend in Aachen couldn’t have gone better. The crowning glory today was her triumph in the Deutsche Bank Prize and the connected honour that she had thought was actually reserved for a different rider.

When the sun goes down behind the jumping stadium at the Aachen Soers on Saturday evening, things get loud at the Soers. Because then it is time for the CHIO Cup, the combined eventing, jumping and driving competition which calls for fast horses and good teamwork.

The last purple streaks in the sky, a full-house in the Deutsche Bank Stadium, a floodlit arena and dancing horses – the FUNDIS Prize – the pinnacle of a long dressage day at the CHIO Aachen 2022.

The Spanish rider, Sergio Moron Basoco, already won the dressage competition for the Young Riders, the Prize of the Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation yesterday with his long-standing top horse, Farnham L. And they also danced to success today in the freestyle.

Frederic Wandres is experiencing the weekend of his life at the CHIO 2022. Whenever he rides into the Deutsche Bank Stadium, he leaves it with a top placing. The WOTAX Prize, the Intermédiaire I, was no exception.