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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Susan Pape on Harmony's Eclectisch won the Grand Prix Special

WELLINGTON, Fla.--Great Britain’s Susan Pape on Harmony’s Eclectisch made it two for two in the opening week of the Global Dressage Festival, winning the CDI3* Grand Prix Special with 69.021%.

Susan Pape on Harmos Eclectisch Susan StickleSusan Pape on Harmony's Eclectisch (Photo  by Susan Stickle)Locally-based Kevin Kohmann on Giulietta was second with a 68.128%, capping a good week for the German-born rider, who finished first or second in all four of his CDI tests.

Another team Harmony Sporthorses rider, Michael Klimke of Germany on Harmony’s Zomancie, finished third with 62.809%.

Harmony’s Zomancie was bred at Paul Schockemohle’s Gestüt Lewitz and was contesting just his second CDI and making his international big tour debut this week.

Pape went first in the class.

“I wanted to have that same feeling again and he was a little bit spooky with the camera today, and I’m not sure why,” she said. “I wanted to make sure he didn’t throw in some ones-times right after the right pirouette like in the grand prix, so I leaned to the right and that part was maybe not so pretty, but for the rest I was very satisfied. His half-passes are really good and his changes are nice and big. The weakest point is probably the piaffe, but we can live with that given the quality of the rest."

 

“HE'S REALLY focused now," she said. "Life is easier now that he’s a gelding; he was good before but now in the warm-up I can walk on a loose rein. Before that wasn’t possible, and he’d get really tight, so it’s all much more relaxed for both of us. Even in his appearance he didn’t lose anything being gelded. He still has a big neck and a big butt and a big belly! I don’t need to teach him anything, we just want to have fun.”

The Festival suits Eclectisch so well that he has contested all 16 of his latest international tests there, last competing elsewhere in the Nations Cup at CHIO Aachen in Germany, where Pape is based, in 2022.

Pape has two other horses to compete at the 2025 AGDF: the 14-year-old Jazz mare Harmony’s Giulilanta, who has just one CDI grand prix under her belt, and the untested 8-year-old Shiraz, who Pape hopes to debut in the national classes.

“I’ve found that when I bring horses here for the season they learn so much in such a short period of time,” she said. “You have lots of space, the weather is great, you’re outside all the time and you spend more time with the horses. All the horses I’ve brought here over the years have improved so much in these three months.”

In the youth ranks, Kat Fuqua on Dreamgirl won the FEI Young Riders Individual test with 70.47%.

This was the pair’s second plus-70% win in as many days after heading up Friday’s Team test.

Fuqua, who is also 17, will have the chance to shoot for a triple when she competes the Spielberg daughter in the Young Rider Freestyle on Sunday.

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