Stuttgart – You can rely upon Satchmo to come up with the goods: the 16-year-old Hanoverian gelding carried “Dressage Queen” Isabell Werth (Germany) to victory in Friday’s Prize of the Wilhelm Schetter GmbH at the 26th International STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS Horse Show. Riding in Stuttgart’s Hanns Martin Schleyer Halle, the five-time Olympic Games gold medallist received 75.745 per cent – 1st place and 2,500 euro prize money.
Second place went to Ulla Salzgeber (Germany), who, together with Isabell Werth, won the team gold at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. On board Herzruf’s Erbe, an 11-year-old gelding that was bred in Rhineland, she rode to 74.851 per cent and received 2,000 euro.
Behind Salzgeber in third was Hubertus Schmidt (Germany), whose performance on the nine-year-old mare Dark Diamond was given 72.085 per cent by the judges. Best foreign rider was the fourth placed US American Catherine Haddad on Winyamaro (68.936). Just behind her in fifth was Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein from Denmark, who took team bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong. She saddled Rigoletto in Stuttgart and was given 68.553 per cent.
The ten best pairs have qualified for the freestyle on Saturday at 1.40 pm.
