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German team takes the lead in the Grand Prix

After the first half of the Grand Prix, the German dressage team is holding a comfortable lead of almost five percent. Heike Kemmer achieved the best result of the day (75.792 percent) with her 13-year-old Hanoverian gelding, Bonaparte, in the Nation’s Cup, the team classification. Hubertus Schmidt had already “contributed” to the result in the morning with a score of 69.208 percent. (More…)

Germany’s Heike Kemmer leads Individual Dressage Competition after Day 1. USA’s Guenter Seidel and Aragon in 5th place.

Individual Dressage Competition Grand Prix - Day 1

1. 239 BONAPARTE-HANN
HEIKE KEMMER
GER
76.458 (1) 75.000 (1) 75.625 (1) 74.792 (1) 77.083 (1) 75.792 (More…)

Canadian Dressage at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games is a ‘good news - bad news’ story

Aachen, DE - Ashley Holzer with the darkly handsome stallion, Gambol, co-owned with Dr. Diane Fellows, and Evi Strasser with striking chestnut gelding, Quantum Tyme, owned by her own Good Tyme Stables, are more than ready to carry the Canadian colours in the Dressage Competition at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. Team coach Norbert van Laak said, “I am really pleased (with the training program). It started well and all of the horses have progressed. (More…)

Spain and France Claim First Medals at 2006 WEG; Spain’s Ubach Takes Gold; America’s Top Rider Finishes 15th

Long before the sun rose over the first day of competition at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Aachen, a flurry of activity was going on as the stage was set for the first medal decisions made in the equestrian discipline of endurance. The consensus is that today’s championship served as the biggest in the sport’s interesting development and history, and the fact that temperatures didn’t make it much past the mid-60 degree range were a blessing to those who had feared that the heat that Germany saw weeks ago might wreak havoc in a sport where weather conditions can send the placings into a scramble. (More…)

Spain’s Endurance Golden Boy - Miguel Vila Ubach (ESP), 2006 FEI World Endurance Champion

Today in Aachen, the Spanish rider Miguel Vila Ubach (ESP), 33, aboard the grey Arabian gelding Hungares, won the Individual world title in Endurance. Two young French ladies join him on the podium: Virginie Atger, 22, on Kangoo d’Aurabelle in silver and Elodie Le Labourier, 24, on Sangho’Limousian in bronze. This is the first time since the FEI World Endurance Championships began in 1986 that a Spanish rider wins the supreme title. (More…)

At WEG, France takes the team Gold but Spain gets an individual endurance victory

He took the lead a few kilometres before the finish: After 100 miles (160km) and over nine hours in the saddle, Miguel Vila Ubach (ESP), was the first rider to reach the finishing line in the main stadium of the Soers. (More…)

Margie Gayford and Stuntman Top $60,000 ‘Kubota Cup’ Grand Prix at the 20th Collingwood Horse Show

Collingwood, Ontario — Margie Gayford of Sharon, ON, topped the $60,000 ‘Kubota Cup’ Grand Prix held Sunday, August 20, to conclude the two-week Collingwood Horse Show in Collingwood, ON. (More…)

WEG - Opening Speech by the FEI President

Ladies and Gentlemen, World Equestrian Games competitors, equestrian supporters from around the world, dear guests of honour and citizens of Aachen.

As President of the Federation Equestre Internationale, the governing body of horsesport, welcome to this magnificent global festival of competition. (More…)

A Wet, Yet Wonderful, Welcome for the 2006 WEG

Aachen, Germany - After four long years of waiting, an anxious equestrian world watched the clock roll down to the moment everyone had their eyes turned to – the Opening Ceremonies of the 2006 Aachen FEI World Equestrian Games. (More…)

Leopold Van Asten (NED) riding VDL Groep Fleche Rouge took Leg 5 of the GCT at Valkenswaard on Sunday

VALKENSWAARD, August 20, 2006. The arena of Stal Tops morphed into a madhouse when VDL Groep team rider Leopold van Asten won Sunday’s VDL Groep Grand Prix at CSI5* Valkenswaard. Acting as the fifth leg of the Global Champions Tour, sponsored by CN and CN WorldWide, the Grand Prix saw a total of 50 riders attempt the 1.60m track set by course designer Christa Jung (GER). Of the 18 riders who returned for the second round, 10 had been clear in the first round. Half of them again managed to be clear to advance to the all-deciding jump-off. (More…)

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