When Canada’s Eric Lamaze and his equally small and nimble Hanoverian-bred mare, Fine Lady, are in the jump-off, his fellow competitors have to keep on their toes. This was the case again today when the pair repeated last year’s victory in the Turkish Airlines-Prize of Europe. Despite exceptional conditions.

2017 is an historical year in the Deutsche Bank Stadium. For the first time ever a Nations’ Cup was staged for under 25-year-old dressage riders, the Prize of the Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation. This premiere helped the Dutch riders to overcome a trauma.

Philip Rüping, professional rider at the yard of Paul Schockemöhle, is the first German show-jumper to win a jumping class at the CHIO 2017. He excelled in the Prize of Handwerk after reaching the finish line clear in 60.10 seconds.

The Danish dressage rider, Anna Kasprzak, has only been riding Quarton, the horse that she hopes will be her next star one day, for around two months. A totally justified aspiration as the Prize of VUV-Vereinigte Unternehmerverbände Aachen, the Prix St. Georges, demonstrated today.

Veronica Ferres’ new film “Unter deutschen Betten” (Under German beds) will appear in the cinemas in October. A comedy about a burnt-out diva, who sells herself as a cleaning lady. Reason enough for the actress, who attended the Opening Ceremony and the “Media Night” at the CHIO Aachen on Tuesday evening, to get in on all the fun.

From the party band to the party night: While the Hermes House Band were doing their last encores in the Main Stadium late yesterday evening at the end of the Opening Ceremony, a true CHIO Aachen classic commenced in the “Champions’ Circle”: The Media Night.

The four-in-hand-drivers opened the CHIO Aachen 2017 today with the Prize of the Firma Horsch, Der Entsorger, a dressage competition. This class also suffered the impact of the storm that suddenly hit the Soers. Whereby, this didn’t affect the performance of Australian’s eternal winner, Boyd Exell.

It was an extremely successful day for Ireland’s Cian O‘Connor at the CHIO Aachen 2017! After coming fourth in the Turkish Airlines-Prize of Europe, he jumped to victory in this evening’s jumping competition in two phases, the Prize of StädteRegion Aachen.