Daniel Bachmann Andersen's Zippo M.I. Sold to Great Britain

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Daniel Bachmann Andersen's Grand Prix ride Zippo M.I. has been sold to the U.K. Former British Olympian Emma Hindle has acquired the gelding as a her next Grand Prix horse.

Zippo I.M. is an 11-year old Danish warmblood gelding by Blue Hors Zack out of Fabienne (by Blue Hors Don Schufro x Leonardo II). He is bred by Steen Bo Larsen.

Michala Damm-Frydenberg

The bay gelding began his sport career in Denmark as a 5-year old under Michala Damm-Frydenberg.

She first showed him in the LA-level tests and finished 9th in the 5-year old finals at the 2017 Danish Young Horse Championships. A year later they were 8th in the 6-year old finals at the 2018 Danish YH Championships.

Michala took Zippo MI in his first Prix St Georges test in May 2019. In June the 7-year old Zippo MI won the qualifier for the 2019 Danish Young Horse Championships but his partnership with Damm-Frydenberg came to an end shortly afterwards.

In the autumn of 2019 Jean van Deventer briefly showed him, while a year later in the winter of 2020 Karoline Louise Skøt was onboard

Daniel Bachmann Andersen

Michala Damm-Frydenberg on Zippo in 2019

Owned by Christian and Vivi Vang Lauridsen, Zippo MI moved to Daniel Bachmann Andersen's yard to be produced to Grand Prix level. He followed in Marshall Bell's footsteps which Vang Lauridsen sold to Austria through Helgstrand.

In February 2022 Daniel and Zippo made their debut at Grand Prix level at the CDN Hedensted, where he scored 73.267%. Their international debut was in May 2022 at the CDI Aalborg where they posted 71.457% in their first CDI Grand Prix test. From there they went to Hagen, Falsterbo, Aarhus and Stockholm.

In 2023 Daniel and Zippo competed in Amsterdam, Neumunster, Herning, Hagen and Falsterbo but Daniel was selected on the Danish team with his other ride, Vayron (by Vitalis x Gloster) while Zippo MI was offered for sale

Emma Hindle

The gelding has now been sold to the U.K. as a new Grand Prix horse

Hindle on Romy del Sol at the
2019 CDIO Compiegne

Emma Hindle was one of Great Britain's most prolific riders in the 2000s. Aboard Lancet (by Wenzel x Shogun xx) she was the highest scoring Brit at the 2008 Olympics in Hong Kong. They won team silver at the 2009 European Championships. Emma and "Lance" also competed at the 2007 and 2009 European Championships as well as the 2006 World Equestrian Games. She competed at the 2005 Europeans with Wie Weltmeyer.

Emma began riding as a child at her aunt's stables and first showed in Working hunter classes, followed by eventing. Aged 12 she began training with Stephen Clarke and at 18 she moved to Sweden to train with Kyra Kyrklund at the Flyinge Stud. When Kyrklund moved to the UK in 1993, Hindle moved to Germany to work with Ellen Bontje. In 1996 she rode at the European Young Riders Championships in Copenhagen aboard Boucheron (bu -

Emma founded her own stallion station Brookhouse Stud in Erbach, Germany, where she stood stallions such as Wie Weltmeyer, Diamond Hit and Chequille Z, before relocating home to the U.K. in 2013. After the sad passing of Emma's father John Hindle (a former hockey player who took part in two Olympics in the 1960s), Emma took over her father's property management business Brookhouse, while raising her son Luke.

Between 2017 and 2022 she has been competing two Grand Prix horses: the now 17-year old Romy del Sol (by Romanov x Danny De Vito) and the 15-year old Diesel S (by Vivaldi x Havidoff) which she sold as a schoolmaster to American April Batcheller in the spring of 2022. Emma has been training with Kyrklund's husband Richard White.

"I found my love for riding again," Emma told Eurodressage exclusively. "As you get older and wiser you learn that life is short. We have to remember to take care of our selves. I have a dream and I am going to pursue it and enjoy the ride too. Zippo is a horse that I want to have in my life and share that journey with, where-ever that may take us. He is sensitive but sensible, beautifully trained, one of life’s workers. I really do hope that we have a great partnership together. Fingers crossed."