A highly interesting field of competitors is getting ready for the first World Cup Qualifier of 2006 in Neumunster, Germany. Offering a programme of national and international FEI classes, the Neumunster show annually attracts Europe's best dressage riders.
The show features a national small and big tour and the international World Cup Qualifier classes.
Twenty-nine riders have been entered for the international competition and many of them are out to hunt for world cup points in order to qualify for the Finals in Amsterdam April 20-23, 2006.
For the Netherlands, Imke Schellekens-Bartels and Edward Gal are scheduled to compete. Great Britain is sending its world class performance team riders Laura Bechtolsheimer, Wayne Channon and Emma Hindle. Denmark is represented by Andreas Helgstrand, Lone Jorgensen and Nathalie Zu Saeyn-Wittgenstein, while Sweden will have its best rider Jan Brink and Louise Nathhorst in the ring. Katarzyna Milczarek and Klaudyna Pisarska are riding for Poland, and Belgian Jeroen Devroe and Russian Elena Kalinina represent their country individually.
A large contingent of German riders are showing for their home country: Alexandra Bimschas, Gina Capellmann-Lütkemeier, Martina Hannöver-Sternberg, Anja Hermelink, Klaus Husenbeth, Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff, Bianca Ramcke, Karin Rehbein, Wolfgang Schade, Hubertus Schmidt, Ellen Schulten-Baumer, Isabell Werth, Reinhard Nielsen and Petra Wilm.
The show can be followed at www.reitturnier.de
Photo copyrighted: Astrid Appels/Eurodressage
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