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Friday, March 29, 2024

Father and son Jan and Benjamin Ebeling win at Global Dressage

WELLINGTON, Fla.--Jan Ebeling and son Benjamin both won classes on horses bought from Jan Brink in Sweden on Sunday, March 20 at Global Dressage.

 Benjamin Ebeling on Indeed Susan Stickle Benjamin Ebeling on Indeed (Photo by Susan Stickle)Jan placed first to qualify Zitat for the Future Challenge Prix St. George Series, and Benjamin won the Grand Prix Freestyle CDIO3*.

Benjamin Ebeling riding Indeed scored a new personal best with 78.41% to win the Grand Prix Freestyle CDIO3*.

British Olympic judge Stephen Clarke awarded Ebeling over 80%.

Katie Duerrhammer placed second on Quartett on a score of 75.09%, with Germany’s Michael Klimke third on Harmony’s Sanrino RHP on 73.78%.

“It’s been really awesome to watch Indeed develop, first, of course, under my dad, who did a fantastic job," said Ebeling, 23. "These past couple of months have been serious development for her, and she continues to get better and impress me. I think she just loves being at the show; it’s her favorite thing, and she’s turning into a really consistent horse.”

 

EBELING rode to a freestyle put together by Karen Robinson, initially for his other horse Illuster Van De Kampert.

Jan Ebeling on Zitat Susan StickleJan Ebeling on Zitat (Photo by Susan Stickle)“I knew that coming into this week, I had some difficult competition in this individual final, and I wanted to crank up the difficulty with Indeed,” said the California-based rider. “This is the first time that she had ridden through it. It’s been a long season, but it means a lot to end if off with a win. And I have to thank my coaches; my dad and Christoph Koschel. I’m really hoping to take Indeed to Europe, hopefully do a couple of competitions out there, and continue developing her. She continues to get better every week, and it’s really fun to see.”

“He’s a very consistent, reliable horse, and you can always count on him,” Duerrhammer said. “It’s the end of a very long, hot week, and he just went out there and tried as hard as he could and completed everything. The music was made for him by Terri Gallo, and it really fits him. I wanted something that was fun and upbeat. He’s just a really pleasant horse and makes you feel like you’re having a good time.”

Michael Klimke, who was part of the gold medal-winning German Nations Cup team, was riding Harmony’s Sanrino RHP, a 13-year-old stallion by San Remo in his first ever freestyle at the level. This was only their third big tour CDI together.

“This was Sanrino’s first time doing three classes at one show, and today the horse gave everything, but I felt he was tired," said Klimke. "And the last line — this joker line — you know, when I started to ride freestyles there was no joker line, so I make the wrong decision to make the pirouette the second time, and then I was behind the music. And I think I confused him a little bit, because I was confused."

Bianca Berktold won the Intermediate I Freestyle CDIO3* on Imperial, with a personal best of 76.43%, an improvement of almost four percentage points over their previous best.

“She’s really an amazing mare, and she walks in the ring like she owns it,” said Berktold. “It’s amazing to have a horse that really likes to show, shows up to the occasion, and enjoys it. It has been an exciting journey. My amazing coach Ashley Holzer and I made some significant changes to the floor plan yesterday, and we thought, ‘Okay, let’s try this and see what happens,’ and it’s paid off. Imperial was so on point with the music today, so it was really fun."

Canada’s Beatrice Boucher placed second with 71.345% on Summerwood’s Limei.

“The incredible thing about this is that there’s so much room for improvement but she still does everything,” said Boucher.

Lars Ligus of Germany rode Soccer City to 62.75% to place third.

“That was the first freestyle for me and the horse,” Ligus said. “It felt great, but I forgot to ride the medium canter, which was very expensive. And then I had a mistake in the right pirouette, but I think overall it was a fantastic week. It was so much fun, and I’m so happy that I got this opportunity to ride with the German team.”

Canadian Camille Carier Bergeron recorded her second win of the week on Sound Of Silence 4 when she won the CDIOU25 Grand Prix Freestyle.

The top four in the class all scored over 70%, but Bergeron scored 72.23%, narrowly edging out Benjamin Ebeling and Status Royal OLD, 72.05%, and Quinn Iverson finished third, riding Beckham 19 to 70.46%.

“The music is actually from my other horse, Acoeur, in the last two Nations Cups,” said Bergeron. “Because Sound Of Silence is so new at this level, I didn’t really plan a freestyle yet for him. It’s the second time I’m riding ‘SOS’ with this music as I used it two weeks ago in the Palm Beach Derby. But I switched the pattern around to fit him better, and I went off course today. I was going like I used to with Acoeur, and I realized I was going off course, and then I did a half-pirouette and went into my one-tempos right away.”

In the Intermediate I Freestyle CDI3*, Lauren Knopp on Amadeus de Massa scored 69.017% to win over second-placed Rebecca Waite and Beirholms Eclaire, who had the exact same score as Knopp.

 

IN THE FUTURE Challenge classes, Jan Ebeling won the final qualifying class for the Prix St. Georges series, scoring 71.911% on Zitat to beat second placed Jaime Dancer, who scored 71.519% on Supremont, for both Ebeling and Dancer to qualify for the grand final in AGDF 11.

These classes aim to identify and nurture talented, up-and-coming young FEI horses, giving them exposure to benefit their development with the biggest of world stages in mind.

“Zitat is a wonderful young horse. He’s schooling just about everything,” said Ebeling. “We started one-tempis with him. But he’s still very baby sometimes. He’s a big guy, big mover, and he was on today, so it felt great. For such a big horse, he’s super easy to ride. He’s got a super temperament and, in the long run, that’s what’s going to make him a wonderful horse. We started training piaffe and passage, and he’s really good about that already. I think he’s a really interesting horse for the future.

“I love this series. It’s such a wonderful idea. It’s really something that I hope will catch on in this country, because these types of classes are so big in Europe. It’s an awesome class. We need to promote the young horses just like we need to promote our up-and-coming riders,” said Ebeling.

In the Lövsta Future Challenge qualifier, Jennifer Williams won on Joppe K by the slimmest of margins.

Williams scored 70.097%, with second-placed Devon Kane scoring 69.999% on Gyllebo’s Vamos — a difference of just 0.098 percentage points.

“He is coming 8, so we just kind of wanted to have fun and just test the waters in front of the judges,” said Williams, who found Joppe K in Holland as a 4-year-old. “Our main goal for the year was the small tour, but everything has been going so well, we thought why not, let’s just see, and it worked out today.”

Williams had to contend with a rain delay and puddles in the arena.

“He’s incredibly kind, always happy, and willing to do whatever I ask of him," said Williams. "I knew he wasn’t going to lose his mind over anything, so the puddles made it really fun and animated. Plus, we’re from Washington, so we are used to a lot of mud and puddles. Oded Shimoni has been my trainer while in Florida, and we had a plan of some key elements we wanted to make good aside from the movements and the contact, and those Joppe executed really well. When those things work, then the movements are just kind of gravy.

“The one-tempis are quite new for him, so I was very proud of him that he came in and executed all 11 quite uphill and forward. The piaffe/passage, he’s very talented with that, and all of that just needs time and strength. I love that the judges in this class know that these are up-and-coming horses. I think that they still hold them accountable for the quality, but at the same time, they know that for some of them this is the first time in these rings. I think it gives the horses so much confidence.”

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