Stuttgart – Three day eventing World Champion Michael Jung made it plain for all to see that Stuttgart’s Hanns Martin Schleyer Halle is his second home. For the fourth time in succession and the fifth time in all, the 28-year-old horse farm manager from nearby Horb won the Indoor Derby on the opening day of the STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS Horse Show. On board the Trakehner gelding Wallach Vincent TSF, just eight-years-old, the gold medal winner at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington remained faultless and went through the finish in 89.49 seconds. The thrilled capacity crowd of 8,000 equestrian fans cheered on the Black Forest sunny-boy frenetically. He had previously won the eventing test in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
In second place in the Prize of Pferdesafari and the Ingenieurbüro Hauser was Frank Ostholt, the 2008 team Olympic Champion. Riding the 15-year-old Air Jordan, though he completed the course in the fastest time of 87.27 seconds, a 4-second penalty for a jumping fault left him with a final time of 91.27 seconds. The Brazilian Ruy Fonseca and his 14-year-old stallion Idaho d’Arbonne went into the lead after 17 starters but his time of 92.22 seconds was then beaten by Michael Jung.
