“Stuttgart is my favourite arena and one with a fantastic crowd,” raved the winner. “Last year, I won on my 13th birthday and this year one day before my birthday – it’s an early present.”
One place behind in second was Ireland’s Charlie Flynn in the saddle on the 11-year-old mare HK Zena (0/34.61) ahead of Darcy Honeybunn Daisy Breen (Great Britain) with the ten-year-old mare One Saharah (0/34.88). Malte Merschformann (Germany), son of the team European champion in Mannheim in 1997 Markus Merschformann, was fifth on the eight-year-old Selle-Français stallion Hiroshima de Feyele (0/36.31).