Reports Index

Shows

Cuts in Long List after Fourth 2013 Dutch WCYH Selection Trial

19/06/2013

2013 World Championships for Young Dressage Horses

The Dutch selection trials for the 2013 World Young Horse Championships were picked up again on Tuesday 18 June with a fourth observation trial at the KNHS centre in Ermelo, The Netherlands. Several cuts have been made to the long-list of horses in the running for Verden.

Training

Classical Training: Dealing with a Tricky Horse

09/06/2013

Training Your Horse

The true art of dressage is not in winning prizes or doing tests or even in showing off the talent and skill of horse and rider, it's in the training. There is no greater reward for a rider than when they take a challenging, difficult or "given up on" horse and work with him, encourage him, foster him, motivate him, and eventually enable him to reach his full potential.

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

Johanne Pauline von Danwitz, Germany's Not So Secret Junior Rider Weapon

01/06/2013

Young Guns in Dressage

German Johanne Pauline von Danwitz has become a rising star in Germany now that she has infiltrated the junior riders division. A successful pony rider at national level, Von Danwitz is now hitting the big league since she stepped aboard experienced German YR team horse Habitus. One to keep your eye on, Johanne won the 2013 Preis der Besten for juniors, which serves as major qualification trial for the European JR/YR Championships.

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.