With a successful show at the end of the green season, which was won by Gert Jan Bruggink, Riesenbeck International says goodbye to the indoor season 2022/23, which already starts next weekend (September 28 to October 1) with the Indoors CSI**.
"We have brought the outdoor season to a good end and cannot breathe at all for long. For the show next weekend, we expect many riders with their horses again," says Show Director Karsten Lütteken. Then the anxious look to the sky falls away, because the solid boxes and paths on the grounds of Riesenbeck International defy any weather. His wish: " We would be pleased about spectators in the event hall." Admission is free.
First, however, ten of the 45 riders who competed fought in the jump-off for the victory and for some world ranking points at the Grand Prix of Riesenbeck. The young student Mia-Charlotte Becker on the 15-year-old Oldenburg gelding Lasse K was among them - and rode boldly and briskly to the front. After their spirited course, both left international greats such as the European Team Vice Champion Christian Kukuk, this year's winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen, Geritt Nieberg, or former German Champion Felix Hassmann behind them.
In the jump-off the professional riders then had the say. First and foremost the Dutch rider Gert-Jan Bruggink, who is often a guest in Riesenbeck with his wife Pia-Luise Aufrecht - Bruggink and their children. With the only eight-year-old gelding Vigalio Sho Z, he showed best how to force the pace on the long canter sections, to shorten in the tight turns. He won (0/42.71) with some distance ahead of Patrick Bölle on Caramba de Janeiro (0/44.03) and Bas Van Der Aa (NED) on Gaen (0/44.33). Mia-Charlotte Becker finished sixth after a drop - the time would have been enough for second place for the daughter of the German national trainer Otto Becker. Congratulations!
The home team was not fully on site this weekend. Home rider Ludger Beerbaum, Philipp Hartmann and Christian Kukuk represented the Beerbaum stable. Eoin McMahon and Philipp Weishaupt were busy in the Berlin Eagles team at the penultimate leg of the Longines Global Champions Tour in New York. The aim was to maintain or even extend the razor-thin lead (262 points) of two points over Stockholm Hearts (260 points) in the overall standings so far ahead of the final tournament in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Results at: www.gcglobalchampions.com/en-us/gcl/standings
When the indoor season starts next Thursday, the home riders will again not all be in action. Christian Kukuk has been nominated by the national coach to compete for Germany with his Mumbai at the highly endowed Nations Cup Final. For this pair, the start of the winter season is therefore postponed by one week.
All results of the weekend at: www.results.riesenbeck-international.com/2022/riesenbeck-international_17/
