Australia's best and most provocative equestrian magazine "The Horse Magazine" travelled up to Europe for a live encounter with the 2001 European Dressage Championships and World Championships for Young Dressage Horses.
Eurodressage likes to recommend you Chris Hector's and Roz Neave's wonderful report of this event. A short introduction to their article:
These big European shows are just a touch exasperating because try as you will, arrive as early as you can, and leave as late as you can handle, you still have no chance of seeing and enjoying everything you'd like to see. It is not the fault of the venue, the Verden Racetrack. With the young horse arena in one corner, next to the triangle where they judge the foal championship, great warm-up arenas in front of the betting office (doubling now as a very adequate press centre, behind them the trade fair, and to the left, the local soccer stadium which is transformed into a lovely competition arena.