Simone Pearce & Martin Fuchs

Rewards play an important role when training horses. Also gladly in the form of treats. Here are three recipes for you to bake yourselves.

A smile appears on her face, when she talks about the CHIO Aachen. About the many emotional moments that she has experienced at the Soers. Helen Langehanenberg has already succeeded in having her name eternalised as winner of the Deutsche Bank Prize twice. The dressage rider will be closely linked with the World Equestrian Festival for ever.

– Recurrent lameness is a huge problem for both the horse and rider, especially in equestrian sport. A good two months after its first launch, it can be reported at the “World Equestrian Festival”, CHIO Aachen, Germany, that the first stem cell-based product in horses approved in the EU is now on the market in many European countries.

It all began with coloured notes. The digital experts from the global company SAP and the CHIO Aachen team met up in the “AppHaus” in Heidelberg a few years ago to discuss how one could jointly lead Germany’s biggest sporting event into the digital age. The outcome has been an exciting and equally successful partnership.

She – Germany’s most famous equestrian sport influencer. He – Aachen’s best chef. Both of them – wonderful entertainers. So, it was somehow obvious that Annica Hansen and Christof Lang would get on like a house on fire from the very first moment. We brought the two of them together, actually to cook, but indeed they spent most of the time chatting and laughing.

Louis XIV would definitely have liked the CHIO Aachen. He was a passionate rider and horse lover, he adored huge pageants, the pomp, the show. He used to set off for hunts and hacks from Versailles Palace, which stands for France more than any other castle.

Soon. Very soon. That is when Germany’s largest sports event, which many people claim is the best of all, begins: The CHIO Aachen. We visited the Soers to take a look behind the scenes.

It is doubtful whether the visitors will notice that they are walking on art(ificial) grass. When tens of thousands of people traipse through the meadows of the Soers on Saturday, July 12th, during the SAP Cup, the eventing cross-country competition, they will be marching over Aachen’s biggest piece of art. Spanning 50 x 50 metres, Martin Stockberg created this masterpiece with a lawnmower.