Susanne Szeltner Operated on after Barn Accident

Dressage

Germany

German international Grand Prix rider Susanne Seltzner has been spending the last few days in the hospital due to an operation to her hand, injured in a barn accident.

Leadrope

The 55-year old Seltzner (née Wilhelm) hand got caught in the leadrope when she put her horse Aquarel out into the walker and he spooked.

Her hand was immediately swollen and she went to the emergency room at the Lucas hospital in Neuss (GER) for a diagnosis. It turned out that the ligaments of her right middle finger were torn and she had to be operated on.

Susanne will be sidelined for two months for her hand to heal properly.

Aquarel

Based in Neuss near Dusseldorf, Susanne is an amateur dressage rider competing internationally. She works in marketing and rides horses as a hobby.

She was the first rider of Bundeschampion and licensed stallion A Jungle Prince in 1990. Her career making horse was the nationally competed Warm Up,

After Warm Up's retirement in 2007 she returned to the arena eight years later in 2015 aboard the Dutch Gelderlander gelding Aquarel (by Unieko x Koblenz). He took her into the international arena. They made their CDI debut at the 2021 CDI Balve in the amateur Gp tour and then went to Exloo. In 2022 and 2023 the showed in Hamburg, Meerle, Kronenberg and most recently in Hamburg again, where they were fifth in the Kur with 70.065%.