The duo required 57.11 seconds in the speed and handiness class to finish ahead of the 2021 team Olympic champion in Tokyo, Peder Fredricson (Sweden) in the saddle on the 12-year-old gelding SV Vroom de la Pomme Z (58.11). The 2019 individual European champion Martin Fuchs from Switzerland followed in third on Fave d’Authuit, an 11-year-old Selle Français gelding (58.23). The best German was Philipp Schulze Topphoff who placed sixth when taking 59.51 seconds on the stallion Najac vh Kluizebos.
Only the top 12 overall riders from the class plus the second qualifier tomorrow on Friday (5.00 pm /Prize of the Outletcity Metzingen) then go through to the evening’s STUTTGART GERMAN MASTER – presented by DVAG. With a purse of 105,500 euro on offer, the class with a jump-off is the second most important jumping competition in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle. The 2025 winner was Julien Epaillard (France) on Donatello d‘Auge.
