Scores: 2017 German Dressage Championships

2017 German Dressage Championships - Balve (GER) - 9 - 11 June 2017

Big Tour - Round 1 - Grand Prix
Judges: Nivelle, Wust, Plewa, Lehrmann, Holthaus

1. Emilio -Isabell Werth - 82.060%
2. Cosmo - Sönke Rothenberger - 79.700%
3. Imperio -Hubertus Schmidt - 76.340%
4. Sammy Davis jr.- Dorothee Schneider - 76.040%
5. Fabregaz - Fabienne Lütkemeier - 4.380%
6. Heuberger TSF - Anabel Balkenhol - 74.220%
7. Dablino FRH - Anabel Balkenhol - 74.180%
8. Damsey FRH - Helen Langehanenberg - 74.140%
9. D'Agostino FRH - Fabienne Lütkemeier - 73.840%
10. Burlington FRH - Charlott-Maria Schürmann - 73.720%
11. Suppenkasper - Helen Langehanenberg - 73.440%
12. Spirit of the age OLD - Bernadette Brune - 72.500%
13. Real Dancer FRH - Jan-Dirk Gießelmann - 71.620%
14. Lord Lichtenstein - Alexandra Stadelmayer - 70.140%
15. Lukas - Franziska Stieglmaier - 70.100%
16. Wunderkind -Stefanie Schatz-Weihermüller - 69.300%
17. Daintree - Kathleen Keller - 68.300%
18. Dilenzio OLD - Ursula Wagner - 67.680%

Big Tour - Round 2 - Grand Prix Special
Judges: Holthaus, Wust, R. Richenhagen, Plewa, Lehrmann

1. Emilio - Isabell Werth - 84.275%
2. Cosmo - Sönke Rothenberger - 80.804%
3. Imperio - Hubertus Schmidt - 77.196%
4. Sammy Davis jr - Dorothee Schneider - 77.039%
5. Damsey FRH - Helen Langehanenberg - 6.549%
6. Fabregaz - Fabienne Lütkemeier - 75.196%
7. Suppenkasper - Helen Langehanenberg - 75.118%
8. Real Dancer FRH - Jan-Dirk Gießelmann - 74.510%
9. D'Agostino FRH -Fabienne Lütkemeier - 73.490%
10. Heuberger TSF - Anabel Balkenhol - 73.431%
11. Burlington FRH - Charlott-Maria Schürmann - 73.275%
12. Spirit of the age OLD - Bernadette Brune - 72.373%
13. Dablino FRH - Anabel Balkenhol - 71.804%
14. Wunderkind - Stefanie Schatz-Weihermüller - 69.451%
15. Lukas - Franziska Stieglmaier - 69.078%
16. Daintree - Kathleen Keller - 68.765%-
17. Lord Lichtenstein Alexandra Stadelmayer - 68.627%
18. Dilenzio OLD - Ursula Wagner - 65.725%

Big Tour - Round 3 - Kur to Music
Judges: Holler, Lehrmann, Wust, Nivelle, Plewa

1. Emilio - Isabell Werth - 89.125%
2. Cosmo - Sönke Rothenberger - 87.600%
3. Sammy Davis jr. - Dorothee Schneider - 81.650%
4. Damsey FRH - Helen Langehanenberg - 81.450%
5. Imperio - Hubertus Schmidt - 80.650%
6. Fabregaz - Fabienne Lütkemeier - 80.400%
7. Heuberger TSF - Anabel Balkenhol - 76.750%
8. Spirit of the age OLD - Bernadette Brune - 76.325%
9. Real Dancer FRH - Jan-Dirk Gießelmann - 76.225%
10. Burlington FRH - Charlott-Maria Schürmann - 75.200%
11. Wunderkind - Stefanie Schatz-Weihermüller - 72.750%
12. Lukas - Franziska Stieglmaier - 72.675%

Being number one becomes Isabell Werth. Isabell being interviewed for WDR television

Laura Graves and Verdades

Cathrine Dufour and Cassidy

Judy Reynolds and Vancouver K in the prize giving

Patrik Kittel's Delaunay is getting better in the bridle contact (no longer titlting) and the passage is a highlight. In piaffe he gets a bit wide and in the canter on the forehand, but slowly the horse is becoming stronger

Dorothee Schneider on the young Sammy Davis Jr. The San Remo is still quite green, not truly carrying himself behind in passage, but he is soft and elastic in the contact and the piaffe is coming along well

Dorothee Schneider and Sammy Davis Jr.

Severo Jurado Lopez on Marianne Helgstrand's Deep Impact. The black has a spectacular passage but the right hind is thrown out from under the body. The single tempi changes and extended canter were the highpoints

Spanish Claudio Castilla Ruiz on the Lusitano Alcaide

Castilla Ruiz pats Alcaide. They became Aachen's hero of 2017, generating thunderous applause for his piaffe superstar Lusitano. The chestnut is not very regular in the extended trot and passage, but boy does he get off the ground

Belgian Olympian Jorinde Verwimp and her 17-year old Tiamo make the Aachen top 10

Patrick van der Meer had the ride of a lifetime on a consistent and correct Zippo to finish 11th

Agnete Kirk Thinggaard has a barn full of top horses but with Jojo AZ she has that special connection and the Hungarian warmblood seems to be like red wine: better with age!

Adrienna Lyle on the very well trained, young GP horse Salvino. The passage is exceptional but needs to even out and in the tempi changes he still gets croup high

Adrienne Lyle

Olivia Lagoy-Weltz on Rassing's Lonoir. Not as on point as in the Rotterdam Grand Prix with a trailing right hind in the piaffe and swaying tempi changes, but the trot half passes and extensions were fabulous

Hubertus Schmidt and Imperio probably lost their team spot with their 71.371% earning test. The Trakehner was just not sharp enough behind and struggled with the piaffes

Therese Nilshagen on Dante Weltino lacked sharpness and focus as well. A big mistake in the two's made the score drop even though the pirouettes and trot half passes were great

Emile Faurie on Lollipop. The 13-year old Hanoverian has a beautiful silhouette in piaffe and passage but lost the uphill tendency a bit in the canter work, although the pirouette right was superb

Inessa Merkulova on Mister X. The Russian star was a hand held in the trot half passes, but did a good rein back and shone in the piaffe and passage. In the tempi changes he gets constricted in front

Malin Nilsson made her debut on the Swedish team in the Aachen Nations' Cup. Her Bon-Ami was very obedient and executed a nice, focused test, but he had the mouth got too often open on the right

Hayley Watson-Greaves and her Rubin Royal offspring Rubins Nite

Swiss Marcela Krinke-Susmelj and Atterupgaards Molberg (by Michellino) have been coming to Aachen every year since 2011. This is their seventh, consecutive time competing in Aachen!

Kasey Perry-Glass was riding a strong Grand Prix test (although the horse had the nose behind the vertical) but when they lost the canter on the centreline, they missed the left pirouette and the score plummeted. Pity.

Anders Dahl and Selten HW got bronze at the 2017 Danish Championships, but their Aachen grand prix lacked polish

Belgian Laurence Roos and Fil Rouge (by Stedinger)

Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Don Olymbrio. The talented stallion is a bit small for his tall rider, but Bachmann did a good job on this young horse who still often got deep and unbalanced

Marieke van der Putten's Dutch warmblood x harnass cross was too hot to trot but the petite rider stayed focused and tried to get the most out of it

Jordi Domingo Coll took Statesman from young horse level all the way up to Grand Prix himself

Jeannette Haazen's Dabanos d'O4 was unfortunately back to his old self and too hot. He lost the entire walk and the scores dropped

Margo Timmermans on Catch Me

Cristobal Belmonte on Diavolo de Laubry

David Engelen on Royal Rubinstein

Swedish Juliette Ramel and Buriel KH have not found their groove at shows after returning from a long period of injury. Furthermore at the tack check the bridle accidentally came off and Buriel went on a rampage in the warm up