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With a starters field of 161 combinations, the 2025 CDI Kronenberg Indoor on 28 - 30 November 2025 was an action-packed international across the levels. With classes from young horse level to Grand Prix and two arenas going simultaneously from the start to finish each day, no dressage lover could be bored.
At FEI pony level Dutch team rider Esmae Niessen swept the board in all three classes on the 11-year old Danish bred Strandgaards Do It My Way (by Dr. Doolittle x Bolero). In a field of 19 competitors, she won the team test with 72.095%; the individual with 73.379% and created a gap with her rivals in the freestyle by posting a winning 75.542%.
At Junior level two riders moved into the winner's circle. The team test on Friday was won by the first rider to go in the class, Dutch Mirthe Willig on the 11-year old KWPN bred liver chestnut Just Biantoes (by Desperado x Santano). The pair, who debuted in April 2024 at international junior level, scored her first CDI win on the first day of Kronenberg in 2024 and repeated that feat this year with a 70.555% earning test. The next two rounds were won by Danish team rider Rikke Schoubye Johansen on the 12-year old DWB bred Baunehoejens Carpaccio (by Charmeur x White Talisman) with 71.127% and 75.375%.
It was a Dutch affair at Young Riders level with seasoned young rider Anniek van Dulst battling it out with country mate Kebie Raaijmakers. Van Dulst and My First Choice Dutopia (by First Choice x Sir Sinclair) won the team test with 69.510% and the Kur with 74.159%, but Raaijmakers and Kevita (by Negro x Lord Leatherdale) wiggled her way in to the top in the individual test ( 70.343%), redeeming herself after a last place in the team test. Esmee Boers and Montreux (by Ferdeaux x San Remo) stayed closely on their heels, going from fourth to third to second place over the three tests.
Finally at Under 25 level Anky van Grunsven's student and assistant rider Kris de Vries aced her age category on the 11-year old Jillz La Grande (by Charmeur x Cantus). The Dutch U25 team rider and her tall bay gelding posted winning scores of 69.069% in the Inter II, 69.359% in the Short Grand Prix and 73.892% in the Kur.
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