Eurodressage correspondent Barbara Schnell went to the CDI Wiesbaden on Sunday and Monday and captured the Young Riders classes and Grand Prix for Special. Check out her selection of photographs with comments in our photo gallery:
Matthias Alexander Rath and Sterntaler Unicef (by Sion x Manstein) won the Grand Prix for Special scoring 73.915% and just edging out Isabell Werth on Madeleine Winter Schulze's 16-year old Hanoverian gelding Satchmo (73.319%).
Barbara made note that Canadian Belinda Trussell was the surprise rider in the Grand Prix for Special. First of all she was the only GP rider who warmed up her horse wearing a helmet (!!). Furthermore, she showed a lovely and almost flawless ride aboard Anton with some wonderful piaffe work, the kind the judges don't see very often these days. Sadly, she went a bit under-rated, but that's dressage
According to many the highlight of the 2010 CDI Wiesbaden was not the Grand Prix but the Young Riders class, especially the Kur to Music in which Fabienne Lutkemeier rode a Young Riders World Record Score of 81.350%. She saddled the sympathetic liver chesnut D'Agostino and beat Sanneke Rothenberger on Deveraux OLD, who premiered her brand new Cees Slings' arranged freestyle.
Photos © Barbara Schnell
Related Link: A Stroll in the Park: A Day at the 2010 CDI Wiesbaden
