The Swiss Team European Champion in 2009, Pius Schwizer, won the speed jumping class for the Prize of WALTER solar late on Thursday evening at the 30th International STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS Horse Show. It was the first of two qualifying competitions for the MERCEDES GERMAN MASTER on Friday. Piloting the 12-year old gelding Armani The Gun CH to a clear round in 62.64 seconds, he finished 25 hundredth of a second up on three-time European Champion Marco Kutscher (Germany) and his Westphalian gelding Cornet's Cristallo (62.89).