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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Germany won the Nations Cup over the U.S. at Global Dressage

WELLINGTON, Fla.--Germany squeaked out a one point victory over the U.S in the Nations Cup on March 18 at the Global Dressage Festival.

Michael Klimke on Harmonys Sanrino RHP Susan StickleMichael Klimke on Harmonys Sanrino RHP (Photo by Susan Stickle)The team from Germany, consisting of Michael Klimke, Christoph Koschel, Lars Ligus, and Frederic Wandres, finished on a score of 433.337 percent to beat the U.S., on a score of 432.265 percent after two days of competition.

Leading the team as a rider as well as the chef d’equipe, Klimke on Harmony’s Sanrino RHP to scores of 72.652 percent in the Grand Prix CDIO3* and 70.755 percent in the Grand Prix Special CDIO3* (both scores including the +1.5% for competing in the large tour classes).

“Yesterday I had a really good and clear test. I was very happy,” said Klimke, who said Harmony’s Sanrino RHP is competing in only his third CDI. “He’s a little bit nervous. Today I must say I was also really happy until the half-pass to the right; I lost it a little bit in the change to the right. I was a bit disorganized. He’s already 13, but he has not much experience. I was more happy with my horse today than with me.”

 

Klimke said that he was very proud of his team winning the gold medal for the second year in a row.

Chrisoph Koschelon Chrisoph Koschelon on Dünensee (Photo by Susan Stickle)“Last year it was a really big surprise, and it motivated us for this year," said Klimke. "We all had a top day yesterday, and today it got very close again, a little bit like last year where Christoph had to ride to a certain point to win. It was a lot of fun to ride here again with these colleagues. We are very happy that we won, and a big thank you to Thomas and Monica and all of the organization team.”

Koschel, like last year, was not aware of what he needed to score in order for Germany to win.

He pointed out an expensive mistake in the half-pass.

“I knew that my score would drop a lot,” he said. “I was aware that there was no mistake allowed in the canter, so I tried to do my best there. It worked out.”

Koschel’s score of 72.202 percent was just enough to give Germany the win.

Riding Dünensee, Koschel also contributed a 72.522 percent in Thursday’s Grand Prix class.

“I’m really happy with my horse. We are a very new combination,” he said of the horse that he only ridden in one previous CDI. “I have to say a big thank you to Terri and Devon Kane and Kevin Kohmann and the whole team from Diamante Farms who are letting me ride this horse. It’s really a fantastic horse. We are very new together, so we have to find the buttons a little bit. That will come. Overall I’m very happy. There was team spirit and I’m happy that we won.”

Frederic Wandres and his small tour mount Dolciario had a fantastic performance in their first Intermediate 1 test with a top score of 73.176 percent, and then scored 72.030 percent in the Prix St. Georges.

“Winning the Nations Cup for the second time here is really something super,” Wandres said.

He said how special it was to compete with Lars Ligus on the German team.

“He is always next to my side during all of the big CDIS,” said Wandres. “He is my partner, my groom, my mental coach; everything all in one. This time he had the chance to compete here also, and he did it very well. The team can only be successful if all of us are fighting until the end, and we really did that.”

Ligus was competing not only in his first Senior Nations Cup, but in his first CDI and small tour competition.

Riding Soccer City, Ligus scored 65.706 percent in the Intermediate 1 and 71.530 percent in the Prix St. Georges.

“I only rode this horse four times before I got here,” he said. “I have to say a huge thank you to the owner Katie Kuss. Yesterday it was very good with no mistakes, and I was very happy about that. Today he got a little tired, and I don’t know him that much to go through all of this. I’m very happy to have that experience and that opportunity, that I can ride here and also win here in the Nations Cup for Germany.”

 

BENJAMIN EBELING on Indeed won the Grand Prix Special CDIO3* on a score of 72.149 percent.

Indeed is a mare that Ebeling has only ridden since January, and they and were in their fourth show together.

The win delighted his father, Olympian Jan Ebeling and Indeed’s former rider, and his coach, Christoph Koschel.

“She is so much fun. I love riding Indeed,” said Ebeling. “I don’t think it’s so much about my riding, but more about my coaching, from Christoph Koschel and also my dad Jan Ebeling, who did a fantastic job training this horse. I’m just lucky that I get to ride her. She’s got a lot of power in there, and today you could really see it and I really felt it. For me, that’s something that I’m really excited about.”

Ebeling was joined on the U.S. team by Bianca Berktold and Imperial, who scored 72.441 percent and 72.676 percent riding at small tour, as well as Katie Duerrhammer on Quartett, with 72.652 percent and 70.521 percent, and Susan Dutta riding Don Design DC, 69.587 percent but then eliminated in the Intermediate 1.

For the Canadian team, it was 24-year-old Beatrice Boucher who led with their high score on Thursday with 69.912 percent in the Prix St. Georges.

Riding Summerwood’s Limei, she scored  67.647 percent in the Intermediate 1.

Also competing for Canada were Pia Fortmüller riding Frieda, Megan Lane on Zodiac MW, and Evi Strasser with Déjà Vu Tyme.

Riders will return for the Intermediate 1 Freestyle CDIO3* and Grand Prix Freestyle CDIO3*, both presented by Stillpoint Farm, on Sunday to determine individual medals at small and large tour.

Seven time Olympian Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén on Devanto won the Grand Prix Freestyle CDI3* with a score of 78.080%.

Second was Yvonne Losos de Muñiz (of the Dominican Republic with Aquamarijn on a score of 78.055 percent, and in their first-ever grand prix freestyle, Pan American Games gold medalists Sarah Tubman and First Apple was third with 77.115 percent.

“Tonight, I was really happy with him,” said Vilhelmson Silfvén of the 13-year-old Holsteiner gelding. “I had a great feeling. The atmosphere had a big impact, but I felt that he was totally with me and was nice to ride. This was the first time I rode this floor plan. I didn’t really know how he would react, so I’m very, very pleased today.”

“This is not only our first Friday night, but my first grand prix freestyle ever, period, in my career as a rider," said Tubman. "It was super fun. I think Apple is a horse that lights up in an atmosphere like that. The more electric, the better for us. In the first time trotting around the ring, I kind of didn’t know who he was. Tonight, even though he was a little bit of a different horse in a positive way that I’m not used to, each test that we go down centerline I feel like we’re becoming more and more of a team and speaking the same language now. It was a super feeling.

“I just feel really honored to be sitting with these two extremely talented veteran ladies. I’m humbled and I look up to them, so it’s pretty cool to be sitting here,” said Tubman.

 

 

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