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2006 World Champion Jos Lansink with Beezie Madden (silver), bronze medallist Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum(bronze) and Edwina Alexander, 4th. At the end of a grandiose Jumping Finale, Jos Lansink (BEL) was crowned the 2006 World Individual Jumping Champion without having committed, himself or his grey stallion Cavalor Cumano, a single mistake for the whole competition with rotation of horses. The silver goes to Beezie Madden (USA) and the bronze to Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (GER). (More…)

Jos Lansink is new World Show-jumping Champion

Belgian snaps up gold ahead of Madden and Michaels-Beerbaum in gripping final

Jos Lansink is the new World Show-jumping Champion. On the last day of the FEI World Equestrian Games Aachen 2006 on Sunday, the Belgian rider with his stallion Cavalor Cumano beat Beezie Madden (USA) with Authentic (4/43.74) and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum from Thedinghausen with Shutterfly (4/45.40) in the jump-off. (More…)

Team USA Reiners Take Silver and Bronze in Run-Off at 2006 WEG and Show Jumper Beezie Madden Finishes with a Silver Medal

Aachen, Germany—It ended like it began, with wind and rain. But, it was a wet, windy and wonderful finale to an amazing two weeks of equestrian sport at the 2006 Aachen World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. By all accounts, it has turned out to be the biggest and most impressive equestrian competition in history. Now Aachen, a European city world-renowned for horse competition, passes the proverbial torch to another great world-class horse city (Lexington, Kentucky) to host the next FEI Games in four years in 2010. And, they will be here before anyone knows it. (More…)

Canada wins the GOLD! Duane Latimer claims the Gold Medal in Reining at 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games!

Aachen, DE – September 3, 2025 – “I can’t describe how proud I am of him. He was flawless,” said Canada’s Duane Latimer of his Quarter Horse stallion, Hang Ten Surprize, after running his Reining pattern for the World Championship and scoring a phenomenal 230 points! “I can’t describe it; it’s awesome.” (More…)

THE HAMPTON CLASSIC GOES ON DESPITE THE RAIN

While the World Equestrian Games continues to take place in Aachen Germany with show jumping being showcased this week, the Hampton Classic is still going full force out in Bridgehampton. Both events are dealing with the affects of Mother Nature who has brought rain and windy conditions to the showgrounds. (More…)

Chris Kappler Wins The Sotheby’s International Realty Open Jumper Class At the Hampton Classic Horse Show

Bridgehampton, NY—September 2, 2006—Chris Kappler of Pittstown, NJ, closed the deal to win the $25,000 Sotheby’s International Realty Open Jumper Class at the 31st Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show. Kappler, winner of team Gold and individual Silver Medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, was on VDL Maseratie, owned by VDL Stud & Juan Pablo. (More…)

Beezie Madden and Authentic Advance to Show Jumping’s Final Four

Driver Tucker Johnson Leads Americans with 14th Place Finish

Aachen, Germany - The show jumpers returned to day four of five in a hotly contested race to the medal podium. America’s Beezie Madden and Authentic have dazzled the legions of show jumping fans that have traveled to Aachen to witness the very best of the best. Today’s two-round go was the decisive test of which four horse-and-rider pairs were asked to return for one last round on Sunday. The winner will be awarded the final medal to be handed out as the successful and exciting two weeks of equestrian competition at one of Europe’s legendary horse showgrounds comes to a celebrated close. (More…)

Ladies first

At the end of a thrilling fourth day, the four riders who will compete for the Individual title of 2006 World Jumping Champion are: Beezie Madden (USA) on Athentic; Jos Lansink (BEL) on Cavalor Cumano; Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (GER) on Shutterly, and Edwina Alexander (AUS) on Isovlas Pialotta. It is the first time in the history of the FEI World Equestrian Games that three of the four riders entering the Final with change of horse are women. (More…)

Let Us Not Forget…

Watching the driving competition at World Equestrian Games in Aachen yesterday made me begin to think about what seemed to be the most important thing about the WEG – winning medals. (More…)

Christine McCrea Wins $50,000 Grey Goose Vodka World Cup & Grand Prix Qualifier At 31st Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show

Maggie McAlary Wins Wolffer Estate Equitation Championship

Bridgehampton, NY— September 1, 2006—Clouds hovered, but the rain stayed away so that the impressive field of 53 horses was able to complete the $50,000 Grey Goose Vodka World Cup and Grand Prix Qualifier at the 31st Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show. (More…)

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