FEI World Breeding Championship Dressage For Young Horses

July 17, 2004

Florencio and FBW French Kiss, two sons of the Westphalian stallion Florestan I, won the titles at the World Championships of Young Dressage Horses last Sunday in Verden (GER).

Florencio out of a dam by Weltmeyer, an elegant bay stallion excelled in the class of five-year-olds with a total score of 9.8, which was never given before. "A horse to go down on your knees", so Verden`s show manager Rainer Kiel, who expressed what everybody was thinking. The horse is owned by Henk Nijhof (Geesteren) and was ridden by the Dutch Hans Peter Minderhoud.
 
FBW French Kiss, the Champion of six-year-old dressage horses also is a licensed son of Florestan I, his dam is by the dressage star Donnerhall. Katrin Burger from the Baden-Württemberg Schlossäcker presented her top stallion herself and beamed after her triumph at Verden with a total score of 9.16: "He won the National Championship and his stallion performance test, and now this World Championship - this is just a dream."
 
While in the class of five-year-olds the first six places went to horses from German breeds, the Dutch (KWPN) stallion Magic Rodrigo attracted attention in the class of six-year-old dressage horses. With a total score of 8.7 he reached second place with his rider Edward Gal. On the whole participants from 19 nations competed at the Lower-Saxonian Verden, however, more than half the horses were German bred.
 
All results on www.verden-turnier.de