Stockholm: Dalera wins Top 10 Dressage

Jessica von Bredow Werndl & TSF Dalera BB
Jessica von Bredow Werndl & TSF Dalera BB © Petra Kerschbaum

The ten best dressage riders in the world ranking list have been determining their annual champion in the "Top 10 Dressage" competition in Stockholm for several years. As in the previous year, the winner was Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (Aubenhausen), who won the freestyle with her Trakehner mare TSF Dalera BB with 88.76 percent ahead of Isabell Werth (Rheinberg) and DSP Quantaz (85.360).
As the name suggests, the ten best riders in the world ranking list are admitted to the "Top 10 Dressage", or the next-placed riders can move up if starting places are not used. The dressage aces love to travel to Stockholm, because this competition is unusually well endowed: Approximately 220,000 euros will go into the prize money pot, considerably more than is paid out in the freestyle at the CHIO Aachen, for example.

Eight of the ten pairs in the Grand Prix competed in the freestyle, the two Danes Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour and Andreas Helgstrand abstained. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl had her 15-year-old Trakehner mare Dalera dance to victory. The pair had won the freestyle last year with just over 90 percent, but this time they were awarded 88.76 percent by the five judges. The highlights of the flawless test were the piaffes of the Easy Game daughter, for which the highest score of ten was awarded several times. The performance was rewarded with prize money of around 70,000 Euros.
Isabell Werth and Quantaz showed a very good freestyle, which, however, was marred by faults in the changes. The weak score of a Danish judge, who had seen the pair five to six percent below the average of their colleagues, further reduced the result. Nevertheless: Isabell Werth and Quantaz, a Quaterback son, were clearly in second place with a score of 85.365 percent. The Swedish rider, Patrik Kittel, who developed this test format together with the Saab car company, came third. The rider, who lives in Münsterland, also rode a Quaterback offspring: Touchdown, bred in Sweden, was awarded a score of 83.66 percent. The Danish rider, Carina Cassoe Krüth, came fourth with her Danish mare, Heiline's Danciera by Fürstenball OLD (82.825). Benjamin Werndl (Aubenhausen) also represented the German colours in Stockholm. He rode the 13-year-old Oldenburg Famoso by Farewell III. The pair scored between 77 and 85 percent - the average was 81.085.

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