shows&competitions

Wiesbadener Schlossturnier 5/31-6/1/98

Isabell Werth faulted! While watching the performance of a competitor, she lost her balance at the rim of a small pond and slipped into the water. Anyway this ‘fault’ didn't turn out to be an omen. The lady from Rheinberg and ‘Gigolo’ won the Grand Prix and the GP Special. Then she changed horses and collected an additionally victory in the freestyle on ‘Amaretto’.
Nadine Capellmann-Biffar got to 2nd position in Grand Prix. Gracioso showed a very constant performance and once again confirmed his talents for piaffe and passage.
His highest scoring ever in a Grand Prix achieved ‘Cocktail’ under Anky van Grunsven, who spared her top-horses Bonfire and Partout for the Dutch Championships.

Theme of discussions was the italian judge Conte Alberto Boetti, who is also nominated as a judge during the WEC at Rome. "I had two fights against a judge and was defeatet two times", Ulla Salzgeber complained about him. Dr. Volker Moritz asked for comprehension:"He didn’t judge at international events for some time, so he has to get familiar with the scene again". There is a rumor going on that the Italians made a deal concerning their participation in the World Championships: They wanted to put an italian judge into the commision too.
Dr. Volker Moritz also commented the performance of Gigolo and Isabell Werth as "scaringly well". Isabell beamed:"This was the best Grand Prix Special Gigolo ever did. He is like a good red wine and gets better from year to year. Hopefully he will keep this condition for a long time!". The pair will make a break until the Aachen event. "In the meantime I will only gymnastic him. There is absolutely no need to train exercises."

Grand Prix

pos	rider/horse	scores
1	Isabell Werth/Nissan Gigolo(GER)	1,908
2	Nadine Capellmann-Biffar/Gracioso(GER)	1,873
3	Anky van Grunsven/Gestion Cocktail(NED)	1,831
4	Ulla Salzgeber/Rusty(GER)	1,770
5	Heike Kemmer/Borsalino(GER)	1,738
6	Ellen Bontje/Olympic Gestion Silvano(NED)	1,733

Grand Prix Special

pos	rider/horse	scores
1	Isabell Werth/NissanGigolo(GER)	1,700
2	Ellen Bontje/Olympic Gestion Silvano(NED)	1,689
3	Ulla Salzgeber/Rusty(GER)	1,583
4	Nadine Capellmann-Biffar/Gracioso(GER)	1,577
5	Ann-Kathrin Ehlen/Peron TSF(GER)	1,650
6	Jürgen Wirths/Souverän(GER)	1,632

Grand Prix Freestyle

pos	rider/horse	scores
1	Isabell Wert/Nissan Gigolo(GER)	42.63
2	Anky van Grunsven/Gestion Cocktail(NED)	40.62
3	Finn K. Hansen/Bergerac(DEN)	37.25
4	Emilio Fauri/Legrini(GBR)	36.61
5	Tanja Traupe/Ragant(GER)	34.47
6	Hannes Baumgart/Golfclub(GER)	34.21

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Essen Dressage Festival 5/31-6/1/98

A new start for Uphoff and Rubinstein

The organizers of the Essen Dressage Festival were satisfied with their event. Though there was a concurrent horse-sport competition taking place at Wiesbaden at the same weekend, the Dressage festival attracted more than 4000 spectators and some VIP’s too. Beside others Nicole Uphoff, Alexandra Simons-de Ridder and Ann-Kathrin Kroth joined the festival as riders and competitors.

Everybody was eagerly awaiting the first performance of Nicole Uphoff and the stallion Rubinstein. Rubinstein is one of the horses that belong to the private stud farm of the Vorwerk-Happ family, Nicoles new sportive home. Rubinstein who was already discussed becoming a member of the german team under Martina Hannöver was less successful under Heike Kemmer. He performed a harmonic and balanced Grand Prix and made it to rank 2. "We still have to learn each other", Nicole commented her performance and she was quite satisfied with the result, riding the stallion only for a few weeks. So the last ‘finish’ which will be essential for Nicole’s comeback was still missing. Riding the seven year old Rubinstein - son ‘Relevant’ the quadruple olympic winner made it to 2nd position in the Prix de St.George and she won the ‘Nürnberg Burg-Trophy’. Thus the pair qualified for the finals at Frankfurt.

The big winner of the Essen Dressage Festival was the german member of cadre Alexandra Simons-de Ridder who - together with the 8 year old Chacomo - won the Grand Prix, the FEI freestyle and Grand Prix Special.

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Mannheim ‘Mannheimer Maimarkt’ (A-National) 5/2 - 5/5/98

Heike Kemmer was the happy winner of the Grand Prix. "Borsalino exceeded his own capabilities today. At the age of 16 he achieved the highest score of his career!". In the same manner he performed next days Grand Prix Special, but Isabell Werth and her rising horse Giorgio, who did it to rank 2 the day before just showed a remarkable improvement and gained a scuring difference of 5 points against Heike Kemmer, though Giorgio faulted at the flying changes. Anyway Heike Kemmer was also satisfied with her 2nd position.
The participation of Jürgen Wirths, who also is on his way to the top riders, made the competition even harder but Heike Kemmer is quite sure to become a member of the team. "Anyway - half a year before the European Championships there also was nobody who spoke of Ulla Salzgeber as a member of the german team!"Isabell Werth also was very satisfied with her 9 year old Giorgio. "I’m quite enthusiastic about him. At the end he became a little tired, but still I could handle him".

Grand Prix

Pos. Rider / Horse	Score
1 Heike Kemmer(GER)/Borsalino	1785
2 Isabell Werth(GER)/Nissan Giorgio	1754
3 Nadine Capellmann-Biffar(GER)/Farbenfroh	1714
4 Hans-Jörg Kaltenböck(GER)/Charlie Brown	1681
6 Thorsten Dietz(GER)/Boney M.	1647

Grand Prix Special

Pos. Rider / Horse	Score
1 Isabell Werth(GER)/Nissan Giorgio	1558
2 Heike Kemmer(GER)/Borsalino	1553
3 Nadine Capellmann-Biffar(GER)/Farbenfroh	1536
4 Heike Kemmer(GER)/Beauvalais	1500
5 Thorsten Dietz(GER)/Boney M.	1449
6 Hans-Jörg Kaltenböck(GER)/Charlie Brown	1444