Reports Index

Shows

Young, Successful, International Future Champions Gather at 2013 CDIO-PJYR Hagen

24/05/2013

2013 CDIO-PJYR Hagen

From 10 - 16 June 2013 Hof Kasselmann in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Germany, will once again play host to the biggest and most spectacular young riders festival in the world. Future Champions, the official German Nations Cup competition for pony riders, juniors and young riders in show jumping and dressage, has been the ambition of the young riding elite since 1997, and it is even more hotly contested today than ever.

Training

Classical Training: Spirit of the Horse

22/05/2013

Training Your Horse

I often mention the importance of the mental side of dressage, but this mental side is a two part story, one of horse and one of rider. The mentality of the horse, his personality, his joy, his free spirit, is equally as important as the rider's own mental concentration. Not only must the two minds work together, but for those really top marks, the performances that give the audience butterflies in their stomach, is created only when the horse's personality is allowed to shine through.

Walks

Carola Koppelmann Starting Over with Desperado OLD

03/11/2012

A Walk on the Premises

At age 34 Germany’s Carola Koppelmann has had more Grand Prix horses than some riders will ever train in their whole career. Having recently retired her top Grand Prix horse Le Bo, the Warendorf based Koppelmann is rebooting her competition career with the Oldenburg gelding Desperado OLD.

Interviews

Mackinzie Pooley Combining College with Competing Professor Partous

06/05/2013

Young Guns in Dressage

Multiple medalist at the North American Young Riders Championships since 2007, young gun Mackinzie Pooley successfully launched into the under 25 division in 2013, taking out the under 25's at this year's Del Mar CDI aboard the horse she purchased in 2012 from long-time trainer David Wightman.

History

An Evening Dedicated to Classical Dressage and Harry Boldt

04/10/2012

2012 Great Evening of Classical Riding

Just one day after her appointment as chief German team trainer, Monica Theodorescu took part in an evening dedicated to classical dressage and former national coach Harry Boldt. The evening session was organised by the Personal Members (PM) of the German FN on 6 September 2012 and took place at the German Horse Museum in Verden, the home-town of the late Holger Schmezer who had followed in the footsteps of Boldt and Balkenhol during difficult times for German dressage.