It was like déjà-vu in the Freestyle of the Prize of Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation for Young Dressage Riders. Not only was Lana-Pinou Baumgürtel able to defend her top ranking, the top three were all able to confirm their form from yesterday’s class.

Lana-Pinou Baumgürtel headed the field with Emma in the Prize of Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation after notching up a score of 77.375 percent. As before, the Australian rider, Kate Kyros finished second with Intro K. Their score today: 76.475 percent. In third place once again the Danish rider, Sophia Ludvigsen with Touch of Olympic L (75.470).

Baumgürtel, who celebrated her 19th birthday the first day she won here in Aachen, already had a super feeling on the warm-up arena. “Emma is in super form! That is the second time that we have performed the new freestyle at the show and it went super. I am very, very happy.”

The family of Kate Kyros were overjoyed at her coming second. This is her first season in Europe and the “freestyle expert“ Katrina Wüst at C awarded her an incredible 82.20 percent for the artistic execution, which was even more than the winner received. And the judge at B, Cesar Torrente, placed the pair in first place for both the artistic and technical performance. So, Down Under may perhaps be On Top soon.