Photo Report: Collin and Descolari Sweep Young Riders' Division at 2020 CDI Hagen

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2020 CDI Hagen

In one month time, German shooting star Luca Sophia Collin and Descolaro won team silver at the 2020 European Young Riders Championships and individual gold and national title at the 2020 German Youth Championships and scored a hattrick at the 2020 CDI Hagen.

Her 10-year old Hanoverian gelding Descolari (by Desperados x Weltmeyer) seemed to have lost no energy after this tiring schedule of traveling to Hungary and back and competing at the highest level of youth sport in Europe as well as Germany all within a 30-day time period. At the CDI Hagen the sympathetic duo was the flavour of the judges who rewarded them with big scores for a triple victory.

Collin and Descolari won the team test with 74.265%, the individual test with 74.412% and the freestyle with 77.725%, each time staying at least a full two percent ahead of her rivals.

The Young Riders field at the CDI Hagen counted 14 pairs from Germany, Holland, Denmark and Sweden. Collin's biggest rival was German Theresa Friesdorf and the formerly licensed Westfalian stallion Quotenkonig (by Quaterback x Furst Piccolo). Friesdorf and her liver chestnut gelding finished second three times with scores of 72.598%, 72.843% and 74.94%.

The third place in the three-class Young Riders division in Hagen was heavily contested. The third place in the team test went to Dutch Milou Dees and her talented 10-year old KWPN gelding Francesco (by Florencio x Krack C), while in the individual test the Danish Lea Andreassen Torabi slotted in third on Charlotte Haid-Bondergaard's former international Grand Prix horse, Roberto des Frettes, a 15-year old Lusitano gelding by Carinho des Noes x Boulou des Frettes. They scored 69.657%. In the Kur to Music the third spot went to German Emely van Loon aboard the 11-year old Baden Wurttemberger bred FBW Despereaux (by Don Diamond x Abanos). They scored 74.64% for their freestyle.

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Theresa Friesdorf on Quotenkönig

Lea Andreassen Torabi on Roberto des Frettes

Nane Grunwald on Sülberg (by Spielberg x Donnerhall)

Now riding for Liechtenstein, Swiss Leonie Guerra on Luciano (by Laudabilis x Beltain)

Luca Sophia Collin and Descolari

Milou Dees on Francesco

Bente Hedeman Joosten on Hippy Evitia (by Briljant x Parcival)

Felicitas Hendricks and Faible As (by Furst Piccolo x D'Accord). The German young rider received her Golden Rider Badge at the CDI Hagen for 10 S-level victories

Lauren Neville was very surprised and thrilled when she saw her score of 69.609% on the board

Power plant in the background: Nike-Kraftwerk Ibbenbüren

Chiel van Bedaf on Fernando. He was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 5 and battled the disease for two years with chemotherapy. In 2010 he was proclaimed cured. In 17 he won team gold at the European Children Championships

Emely van Loon on FBW Despereaux

Van Loon and FBW Despereaux

CDI Hagen ribbon

Swedish Felicia Bermar Vistedt on Breezy A.S.

Lisa van den Heuvel on Eye Catcher (by Westpoint x Flemmingh)