“Italy is considered the ground zero of Europe when it comes to the spreading of the corona virus. The country has the highest death toll and its citizen have been living in a strict lockdown for the past six weeks. All social life has stopped, including sport activities. Eurodressage’s photographer Lukasz Kowalski caught up with Italian Young rider Valentina Remold and asked her what life is on ground zero.”
My picture in a special issue of russian “Gold Mustang” equine magazine. “A story of Landmark meetings” is a text about russian rising star Ekaterina Podlytkina:
“Ekaterina Podlytkina is a successful dressage rider who lives and trains in Europe, performing at the Grand Prix level.”
I had a pleasure to work for the Federation Equestrian International during Stuttgart German Master. It was my first time during German Master and what a show it was…it wasnt work! It was a pleasure!
“Boyd Exell of Australia won the FEI Driving World Cup™ event at Stuttgart on Saturday, taking the gold at the German Masters for the second year in a row…”
“Swedish Patrik Kittel and the Oatley family’s 13-year old Oldenburg gelding Delaunay became the winners of the World Cup Qualifier at the 2019 CDI-W Fot in Hungary on 26 – 29 September 2019.
Riding Delaunay (by Dr Doolittle x Feinbrand) at his first show since the 2019 World Cup Finals in Gothenburg last April, Kittel won the Grand Prix with 75.00% and went on to claim victory in the Kur to Music with 78.375%.”
“Children rider Taja Zoll, junior rider Aurelia von Mauberg, young rider Michelina Terlecka, and Grand Prix rider Katarzyna Milczarek were the winners of the 2019 Polish Dressage Championships held in Radzionkow, Poland, on 13 – 15 September 2019.
The Polish Championships were hosted at Cichon Dressage in Radzionkow. The Pony championships are held separately and there was no Under 25 division this year, so four divisions were contested at the 2019 Nationals.”
In a french “Grand Prix” magazine you can find article “Rachel Bastady, une belle eclosion au pays des cigognes” with few pictures taken by me this year.
Its a story about dressage rider Rachel Bastady, who is moving forward with her dressage career.
“Wandres and Ayache in Charge of Big Tour at 2019 CDI-W Brno.
German Frederic Wandres and French Alexandre Ayache were in charge of the big tour classes at the 2019 CDI-W Brno in the Czech Republic on 21 – 23 June 2019. Wandres took centre stage winning the World Cup qualifier aboard the 14-year old Oldenburg Westminster.
Previous owned by Saskia Bauer and now listed as owned by Hof Kasselmann, Westminster is by Weltissimo x Davignon. In May Wandres won the 2019 Hamburg Dressage Derby on the gelding and in Brno he dominated the Grand Prix with 70.478% and the Kur to Music CDI-W class with 75.265%.”
“Weinbauer and Schulz Take the Big Tour at 2019 CDI-W Mariakalnok.
Austrian Belinda Weinbauer and Luxembourg Sascha Schulz dominated the big tour classes at the 2019 CDI-W Mariakalnok in Hungary on 9 – 12 May 2019.
With a big field of competitors making the event action packed across the levels from ponies to Grand Prix, the CDI-W Mariakalnok was once again a big success.
The Grand Prix was split up into two tours: a special and the World cup qualifier via the freestyle.”
I am pleased to inform that my photo taken during CDI Achleiten, Austria at the beautiful stable of Family Max-Theurer, was the winner of the “2018 McCauley’s Alltech ‘A+’ Award” for outstanding coverage of international equestrian sport.
The A+ Journalism Awards were established in 2010 by Alltech, in collaboration with the International Alliance of Equestrian Journalists, to reward creativity, passion and excellence in equestrian journalism.
News was realesed during FEI World Cup Finals in Gothenburg, Sweden this weekend.
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