Munich: Isabell Werth wins Louisdor Prize
Munich (fn-press).
Its second leg in 2021 took the Louisdor Prize for young Grand Prix horses to the dressage show at the Olympic riding facility in Munich-Riem. Here Isabell Werth (Rheinberg) put a new horse in the limelight. In the saddle of the Hanoverian mare Superb, she secured her ticket for the final of the series, which will be held in December in Frankfurt's Festhalle.
After Horses & Dreams in Hagen, the "Pferd International" dressage tournament in Munich hosted the Louisdor Prize for young Grand Prix horses. As favorites, the winners of the entry test, Isabel Freese and the Totilas son Total Hope, went to the start. The two had won the final of the Nuremberg Burg Cup in 2019 and demonstrated that they had made the jump to Grand Prix level superbly. But the cards were reshuffled in the actual final qualification. Total Hope refused the piaffe and made mistakes in the canter changes, so that the picture-perfect stallion slipped to fifth place. He was not the only horse to struggle with the requirements. Almost all of them made numerous mistakes, especially in the flying changes, and two riders did not even compete, including Jessica von Bredow-Werndl with her Hanoverian Sir Max by St. Moritz Junior.
For Isabell Werth, on the other hand, everything went well. With Superb, she presented a Hanoverian mare that achieved a safe score of between seven and eight in all lessons. The black mare is a daughter of Surprice out of a Donautanz dam. She has not been seen on the show circuit in recent years, but she is not completely unknown. In 2015, she was Hanoverian Championesse as a three-year-old, took part in the Bundeschampionat for riding horses with Marlene Heye in the same year and finished sixth. She is now owned by Isabell Werth's friend and patron Madeleine Winter-Schulze. With a score of 75.535 percent, Isabell Werth and Superb secured their starting place in the final of the series.
The second best result was achieved by Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier (Paderborn) with the Westphalian mare Valencia As. The Vitalis daughter (dam's sire Hotline) was scored 74.349 percent. Her Westphalian gelding Valesco also descends from Vitalis. Tracing back to Douceur on his dam's side, he placed fourth (68.279). With both ten-year-old horses, Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier again has good prospects for international Grand Prix sport. In between, Dr. Annabel Frenzen (Krefeld) took third place with the Rhineland gelding SilberStern, bred by her father Achim Frenzen (73.047). hen
