Double European Young Riders Champion Horse Slow Fox has a new rider and owner. The 18-year old Anna Katharina Luttgen from Kerpen, Germany, has purchased the chestnut gelding from former young rider Nicola Giesen.
Luttgen is trained by Heidi Bemelmans and will keep the horse at her family's stable Gut Mödrath.
The 12-year old Dutch bred Slow Fox (by Saros xx) has been Giesen's medal winning mount since 1999. The pair then made its debut on the German junior riders' scene, qualifying for the German team to represent the country at the European Junior Riders Championships. The pair stormed to the top, becoming Europe's most successful young rider ever. Winning team and individual gold at the 1999 European Junior Riders Championships, team gold and a fourth individual place at the 2000 European Young Riders Championships, team silver and individual gold at the 2001 and team and individual gold at the 2002 European Young Riders Championships, as well as the 2001 Euro Future Cup Overall victory, Giesen has produced a list of achievements hardly impossible to improve by a rider of such an age.
Hoping to make the transition to Grand Prix, Giesen decided to sell Slow Fox as he was having too much difficulty with the piaffe and passage. Giesen also has the Grand Prix horse Roche in training, but has not been able to make any remarkable winning performances with that horse so far. Nicola Giesen is trained by Heiner Schiergen.
Partial source: Horse Gate
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