FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 – Leipzig, Germany It was no surprise when the reigning Olympic and European gold medallists, 36-year-old Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her 15-year-old mare TSF Dalera BB, strutted their way into pole position in the Short Grand Prix when…
Continue ReadingFEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 – Leipzig, Germany FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes From a coma to the World Cup Finals – the extraordinary story of Dressage rider Juan Matute Guimon, in his own words…. Tonight 24-year-old Spanish rider Juan Matute Guimon competes at his first FEI…
Continue ReadingFEI PRESS RELEASE – by Louise Parkes Being more Jessica…. With two Olympic and three European gold medals all collected over the last eight months, Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB look hot favourites to take the FEI Dressage World Cup™ title when the 2021/2022 Final gets underway…
Continue ReadingFEI Dressage World Cup™ 2021/2022 – Western European League For FEI Germany’s golden girls – the Olympic and European champions Jessica von-Bredow Werndl and her 15-year-old mare TSF Dalera BB – were the undisputed winners of today’s sixth and last qualifying leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2021/2022 Western…
Continue ReadingFEI EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR PONIES 2021 FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes Quality performances were the order of the day at the FEI European Championships for Ponies 2021 in Strzegom, Poland where France claimed Team and Individual gold in both Eventing and Jumping, and Germany dominated the Dressage podium. Dressage…
Continue ReadingFEI Talking Horses Kyra Kyrklund, six-time Dressage Olympian for Finland, multiple Nordic and Finnish champion in Dressage, Jumping and Eventing, six-time FEI Dressage World Cup™ finalist and winner of the FEI World Cup™ Final with Matador in 1991 talks to Louise Parkes about her life and times. A hugely popular…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Dressage Day 3 FEI Press Release – Tokyo (JPN), 27 July 2021 by Louise Parkes Tonight’s victory for Germany in the Dressage team event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will go down in the history books. For the last 27 years the country that…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Dressage Day 2 FEI Press Release – Tokyo (JPN), 25 July 2021 by Louise Parkes Team Germany continued to build up a head of steam when moving to the top of the Dressage Grand Prix leaderboard at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games today. Two great…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Dressage Day 1 FEI Press Release – Tokyo (JPN), 24 July 2021 by Louise Parkes It may have been a long time coming, but the opening day of Equestrian Dressage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games more than lived up to expectations. Emotions ran high…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – DRESSAGE PREVIEW FEI PRESS RELEASE, 20 July 2021 Can Germany make it a fabulous 14? by Louise Parkes Germany has a long and formidable record in Olympic Equestrian Dressage. Since the team competition was first introduced in Amsterdam (NED) in 1928, when the German side…
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