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EQUITANA gave the Dressage competition a truly “international” feel with a huge audience and the atmosphere under the Nutririce big top matching that found in the top stadiums around the world where thousands gather to enjoy the horses dancing.
This is his second trip to Australia and his School of Légèreté (lightness) is blossoming under the care of Perth entrepreneur Pip Easton.
With his perfect English and French charm, Monsieur Karl clearly explained the classical method of training the proper contact which he said is fundamental to training, and demonstrated with pupil Leanne Williams and Avoca Eclipse. The demonstration on Sunday 21st November took place in the John Deere pavilion.
During the short session time it was only possible to gain a small insight into the very first stages of his training method, but it is so obviously different to the current popular method. His method of training is to first use exercises from the ground so the horse understands better when the rider is in the saddle.
For training or correcting the contact the hands are raised and parallel so that the bit only acts on the corners of the mouth and does not crush the tongue. When the horse accepts this contact then the reins can be given forward without losing the contact, so that the neck is long and low with an open gullet and the nose in front of the vertical, therefore acting as a balancing pole. He warned against having the horse’s neck too low which would put extra weight on the forehand. Eclipse’s poll was slightly below the wither when she was accepting the contact nicely.
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WERRIBEE, Australia, Dec. 1–The top 12 Australian and one New Zealand dressage combinations have been selected for the Pacific League World Cup Final to decide who will compete at the global final in Leipzig, Germany at the end of April.
The lineup for the Pacific League Final at the Werribee Park National Equestrian Center Dec. 9-12 is:
Nadia Coghlan/Northern Campion; Gitte Donvig/Port Said 10; Shiwon Greene/Gosh of New Zealand; Mary Hanna/Sancette and Umbro; Blas Lago/Northern Hector; Heath Ryan/Regardez Moi; Rozzie Ryan/Jive Magic; Lesley Anne Taylor/Welpe’s Countess and Maree Tomkinson/Rodrigo III; Caroline Wagner/WS Nevada and Chantal Wigan/Ferero.
WELLINGTON, Florida, Dec. 1–The Exquis World Dressage Masters in Palm Beach that has kicked off the richest series of dressage competitions for the past two years has been canceled for 2011.
The €100,000 (US$130,000) CDI5* had been scheduled for the first week of February as the dressage centerpiece of the Winter Equestrian Festival at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). Equestrian Sport Productions that owns and operates PBIEC disclosed the cancellation Tuesday night after release of the highlights of the 12-week WEF with $6.2 million (€4.78 million) in prize money for hunters and jumpers.
STUTTGART, Germany, Nov. 21–Isabell Werth rode El Santo NRW to victory at the German Masters Grand Prix Special Sunday, after a win on her Olympic mount Satchmo that gave her a sixth Grand Prix Freestyle title at this indoor CDI5* attended by 60,800 spectators over five days.
“El Santo has performed really well here in Stuttgart and it was only his third international show,” Isabell said after posting a score of 76.875 per cent on the nine-year-old Rhineland gelding, the highest mark to date.
Asian Games individual medalists (L to R) silver-Quzandria Nur Binti Mahama Fathil from Malaysia, gold-Young Shik Hwang of Korea and bronze-Mohd Qabil Mahamad Fathil from Malaysia. Photo: Laixiongmin
GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 20–The Republic of Korea took team and individual gold in the Dressage Championships at the Asian Games.
Dong Seon Kim on Pleasure, Kyun Sub Kim and Dark Secret, Young Shik Hwang on Laura and Jun Sang Choi on Ticco scooped the team title ahead of the host nation.
Hwang, who celebrated his 20th birthday a week, dominated from the outset to claim the individual title ahead of Malaysian siblings Quzandria Nur Binti Mahama Fathil and her brother Mohd Qabil Ambak Mahamad Fathil.
Matthias Alexander Rath on Sterntaler-UNICEF at World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. © 2010 Ken Braddick/dressage-news.com
ANKUM, Germany, Nov. 28–Matthias Alexander Rath is widely reported to be the new rider of Totilas that will be announced on Tuesday by owner Performance Sales International. Dressage-news.com reported shortly after the sale of the KWPN stallion that the 26-year-old German was likely to be Totilas’s rider.