Patrik Kittel and Sönke Rothenberger were the winners of the Grand Prix classes on the final day of competition at the 2015 CDI Hagen Horses and Dreams event at Hof Kasselmann in Hagen, Germany, on Sunday 26 April 2015. Patrik Kittel and the Swedish warmblood mare Deja won the Kur to Music, whole Rothenberger and his Dutch warmblood Cosmo claimed victory in the national developing Grand Prix horse class.
Kittel and Deja arrived in the eighties
The 11-year-old Silvano-daughter Deja danced to the music of Stevie Wonder and under Patrik Kittel in her only second Grand Prix freestyle, prize of Kartonfabrik Porstendorf GmbH, scoring 80.22%.
“I am absolutely happy,” Kittel said. The stands were crowded when the 15 best dressage riders celebrated their freestyle presentations in the Almased Dressage Stadium. “That was fantastic, we would like to welcome as many spectators as possible for our presentations to showcase dressage,” said the Swedish championship rider. “I really prefer teaching my horses to cope with the exciting atmosphere than to do without one single spectator.”
Ingrid Klimke is an all-rounder and she finished second, like in the opening Grand Prix. “I prefer it the lively way, and this plan succeeded,” the rider from Münster said with a smile, happy about the 79.35% for her difficult freestyle presentation with Dresden Mann.
Dorothee Schneider (Framersheim) finished third with 77.77%. She rode Deja’s sire Silvano and was particularly delighted about the stallion’s highlights, the pirouettes. She was currently riding 12 competition horses of different age groups. “That’s really fun, thoroughly starting at the Federal Championships, then at the Nurnberger Burgpokal, Louisdor-Prize and finally Grand Prix-classes,” explained Schneider, and Hagen was the perfect setting for her demands.
Cosmo best young Grand Prix-horse in Hagen
A young man who already shined on Friday won the qualifier for eight- to ten-year-old young Grand Prix-horses, the Louisdor-Prize. The 20-year-old Sönke Rothenberger won with the eight-year-old Cosmo and 77.44%, followed by dressage queen Isabell Werth and Emilio (74.41%). Third place went to Hubertus Schmidt, scoring 72.53% with Sammy Deluxe, a Sir Donnerhall I-progeny.
According to the current rules, the best two horse-rider-combinations of each qualifier shall qualify for the Final of the 2015 German Developing Grand Prix Horse Championship (the Louisdor Cup) in Frankfurt on December 16 – 20.
-- Hagen press release - Photo © Astrid Appels
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