Horses & Dreams

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Coordinates: 52 ° 11 '24.1 "  N , 7 ° 57' 35.8"  E

Show jumping stadium 2013
Kremlin Riding School 2013

Horses & Dreams is an international horse show that is held annually at the end of April / beginning of May in Hagen in the Teutoburg Forest .

Horses & Dreams will be held on the facility of Ullrich and Bianca Kasselmann on Borgberg in Hagen am Teutoburg Forest. The tournament is organized by the Reitsportclub Osnabrücker Land e. V. and organized by PSI Equestrian Organizations Company Ltd., the latter organizes an internationally known auction of sport horses at the same location.

The tournament is held on two tournament grounds (one dressage and one jumping arena ) and in a riding hall (for regional competitions), surrounded by a large exhibition and sales area. The peculiarity of the tournament is that it has a different theme every year, which affects the sports and show program and the exhibition area. The tournament is usually the first international tournament of the "green season" in Germany.

history

The tournament history began in 1997: In that year the first international youth equestrian festival, a dressage tournament for riders up to 21 years of age, was held at the Kasselmann farm. In 2000 the European Pony Rider Championships in dressage, show jumping and eventing took place here. The European pony rider championship for dressage and eventing riders also took place in 2002 in Hagen.

Also in 2002, the youth equestrian festival was renamed International Riders Festival - Horses & Dreams. This renaming was accompanied by the creation of tests for riders over the age of 21. The professional equestrian championship for dressage riders has been held here since 2003.

In 2005, the tests for riders over the age of 21 were advertised internationally for the first time, initially as CDI 3 * and CSI 1 *. In addition, the tournament was held once over two weeks. For the next two years only the dressage tests were advertised internationally. The year 2008 brought big changes for the tournament: the big jumping and dressage tests were announced as CSI 3 * / CDI 3 *. In addition, the youth jumping competitions, which have since become the German Nations Cup tournaments for juniors and young riders, were held as a separate tournament in June.

In the following year, the youth dressage tests were moved to the June tournament, which again bears the name International Youth Equestrian Festival. In 2010, the pony show jumping Nations Cup was added to the youth equestrian festival. In addition, the Nations Cup tournaments for the three youth age groups in dressage have been held here since 2010.

The April / May tournament Horses & Dreams was broadcast live on television for the first time in 2009 and has been part of the Riders Tour since 2011 . In 2012, the tournament was upgraded to 4 * level in both dressage and jumping.

In addition to the regular tournaments, the European Dressage Championships were held at the Kasselmann farm in 2005 after Moscow withdrew from the originally planned venue.

After the number of visitors to the first Horses & Dreams totaled 20,000, the number rose to 68,500 by 2012.

In 2012, the main tests in show jumping and dressage were held as CSI 4 * and CDI 4 *, the second highest tournament category in these sports. In addition, a CSIYH 1 * for seven- and eight-year-old show jumpers and international amateur jumping competitions (CSIAm-A and CSIAm-B) were announced. In addition, national tests such as the professional equestrian championship for dressage riders were held.

In addition to Horses & Dreams, another major dressage tournament was held in July 2015 at the Kasselmann farm: Since the CHIO Aachen is not held due to the European Championships , the German Nations Cup of dressage riders was awarded to Hagen. The CDIO Hagen was advertised as CDIO 5 * and CDI 4 *.

Topics of the tournaments

  • 2006: Horses & Dreams meets Oman , including an endurance ride
  • 2007: Horses & Dreams meets China
  • 2008: Horses & Dreams meets America with a concert by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston from the Beach Boys
  • 2009: Horses & Dreams meets Italy , including “Una Festa Italiana” - an Italian night with opera arias and duets
  • 2010: Horses & Dreams meets Mexico
  • 2011: Horses & Dreams meets Germany
  • 2012: Horses & Dreams meets Great Britain in the year of the Olympic Games in London with the start of almost the entire British dressage team
  • 2013: Horses & Dreams meets Russia
  • 2014: Horses & Dreams meets Brazil
  • 2015: Horses & Dreams meets Australia
  • 2016: Horses & Dreams meets Denmark
  • 2017: Horses & Dreams meets Austria
  • 2018: Horses & Dreams meets the Royal Kingdom of Jordan
  • 2019: Horses & Dreams meets France

program

Federal Minister Ursula von der Leyen as patron of the “Riding Against Hunger” project in 2013

The Horses & Dreams equestrian festival lasts five days, from Wednesday to Sunday. The program takes place in several places at the same time. On Wednesday there will be initial exams, the day will end with the opening ceremony with an ecumenical service. Further warm-up tests will also follow on Thursday, for example the first test of the Grand Tour in show jumping. The tournament program will continue on Friday.

Saturday includes, among other things, the evaluation test of the young horse Grand Prix for 8 to 10 year old dressage horses, which has been held since 2008 . In addition to the qualifying test for the Grand Prix, a special test is held on the jumping arena. In 2009 and 2010 this was a KO jumping competition with a joker, since 2011 an elective jumping competition has been held.

The final day includes a Grand Prix Spécial and a Grand Prix Freestyle on the dressage arena , while the final of the professional equestrian championship takes place in the afternoon. In addition to show numbers, the program on the jumping arena includes, in particular, the show jumping competition.

The “Red Horse” will be auctioned for the benefit of the Welthungerhilfe “Riding against Hunger” project . At the start of the project founded in 2012 by Gudrun Bauer and Horst Kasselmann, € 30,000 was raised. Madeleine Winter-Schulze had the largest share in this . In 2013, € 44,000 was raised in favor of Welthungerhilfe. In 2016, a life-size Lego horse was auctioned for € 150,000 for the benefit of the campaign as part of a benefit concert by the Bundeswehr Big Band .

The most important exams

Dressage riding

Dressage stadium

At the first event after the upgrade to CDI 4 * in 2012, there was a very strong field in Hagen: Charlotte Dujardin set a new value record in the Grand Prix Spécial with Valegro . A total of eight grades of over 80 percent were awarded in the two Grand Prix, the Grand Prix Spécial and the Grand Prix Freestyle.

Grand Prix Spécial

The CDI at Horses & Dreams is divided into three tours: a small tour, the Grand Prix Spécial Tour and the Grand Prix Freestyle Tour. The Grand Prix Spécial at the end of the Grand Prix Spécial Tour takes place on Sunday morning and was endowed with 11,700 euros in 2018. In 2005 the prize money was only 2,500 euros.

Since 2009 the test has been a special test for the Meggle Champions .

Winner (from 2005):

  • 2015: Kristina Sprehe with Desperados FRH (82.059%)GermanyGermany 
  • 2016: Kristina Sprehe with Desperados FRH (81.745%)GermanyGermany
  • 2017: Sönke Rothenberger with Cosmo (81.686%)GermanyGermany 
  • 2018: Sönke Rothenberger with Cosmo (82.255%)GermanyGermany
  • 2019: Sönke Rothenberger with Cosmo (79.638%)GermanyGermany

Grand Prix Freestyle

The Grand Prix Freestyle, which, like the Grand Prix Spécial, is advertised internationally, takes place on Sunday afternoon. It was also endowed with 11,700 euros in 2018, compared to 2,500 euros in 2005. The exam is dedicated to the late George Theodorescu .

Winner (from 2005):

Professional equestrian championship

From 2003 to 2013 the professional equestrian championship of dressage riders (held since 1995) took place in Hagen. It has been held in Unna since 2014 . Eligible to participate in the professional equestrian championships are professional equestrian instructors, horse landlords for riding / classic riding training or horse management masters (riding training). You must have achieved a score of at least 63 percent in a Grand Prix-level test in the two years prior to the test.

The national final of the professional equestrian championship was the end of the tournament on the dressage arena. The final was held as a short Grand Prix of the best three riders from the qualifying tests. In this test, each rider first had to ride his own horse, then he also had to ride the horses of his two competitors. The prize money for the test, which was held in memoriam Herbert Rehbein , was 3,000 euros.

Winner (from 2005):

  • 2005: Katrin Bettenworth , best horse: Insterburg (to Insa Hansen)GermanyGermany 
  • 2006: Falk Rosenbauer , best horse: Jamiro Rosso (to Falk Rosenbauer)GermanyGermany 
  • 2007: Heiner Schiergen , best horse: Di Caprio (to Bianca Kasselmann)GermanyGermany 
  • 2008: Bianca Kasselmann , best horse: Las Marismas (to Stefanie Kerner)GermanyGermany 
  • 2009: Burfeind Hartwig , best horse: Cockney (to Sonja Bolz)GermanyGermany 
  • 2010: Burfeind Hartwig, best horse: Norblin (to Johannes Augustin)GermanyGermany
  • 2011: Burfeind Hartwig, best horse: Napolitain d'excellence (to Sonja Bolz)GermanyGermany
  • 2012: Bianca Kasselmann , best horse: world classics (to Bianca Kasselmann)GermanyGermany 
  • 2013: Thomas Wagner, best horse: Weltclassiker (to Bianca Kasselmann)GermanyGermany

Show jumping

Show jumping competition 2013

Grand Prix

The Grand Prix takes place early on Sunday afternoons. It has been a valuation test of the Riders Tour since 2011 and has been held as a jumping competition with two different rounds since then . The exam was sponsored by Deutsche Kreditbank in 2018 and was endowed with € 75,000. In comparison, the prize money in 2006 was 14,600 euros, the two Grand Prizes in 2005 were endowed with 2,500 euros and around 5,000 euros respectively.

Winner (from 2005):

media

After only reports from the tournament were shown on NDR television in previous years , the equestrian competitions were broadcast on television for the first time in 2008. In 2008 NDR television broadcast the Grand Prix live on Sunday, and the game and quiz show "The North German State Competition - in the saddle, get set, go!" With Cornelia Poletto , Horst Hrubesch , Till Demtrøder and Eva Habermann produces and broadcasts on NDR.

In 2009, NDR and WDR television broadcast the main jumping competitions live on Saturday and Sunday, and in 2010 the same was true for NDR. The Grand Prix of the 2011 tournament was to be broadcast by the First German Television , and Matthias Alexander Rath and Totilas' first appearance at the dressage competitions was also to be shown here. Since Totilas did not start due to an injury, the broadcast was canceled at short notice. According to the program managers, the sole transfer of the jumping competition would have been lost to the Formula 1 transfer taking place at the same time .

There was no TV broadcast in 2012 either. However, the NDR showed Grand Prix de Dressage and Grand Prix Freestyle on its website, in which Totilas competed in a tournament for the first time in eight months. In 2013 jumping competitions were broadcast on the NDR website on Saturday and Sunday.

From 2008 to 2010 the dressage tests were broadcast live on the internet by the title sponsor of the young horse Grand Prix at the time, CP Medien AG from Ludwigsburg . The German IPTV broadcaster ClipMyHorse has been broadcasting the show jumping and dressage tests of the tournament live on the Internet since 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Horses & Dreams  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The story of Horses & Dreams , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , April 24, 2008
  2. ↑ a b 1996–2005: Hof Kasselmann (own illustration)
  3. ↑ FEI tournament calendar
  4. ↑ European Dressage Championships awarded to Hagen ( Memento from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
  5. ↑ Horses & Dreams meets Great Britain ended with a new attendance record - Horses & Dreams 2012
  6. ↑ Horses & Dreams 2012 in the FEI tournament calendar
  7. ↑ a b c d Excerpt from the Horses & Dreams 2018 tender
  8. ↑ Nations Cup Dressage 2015 in Hagen , Susanne Hennig / German Equestrian Association , May 15, 2014
  9. ↑ Horses & Dreams 2006 with the host country Oman April 27 - May 1, 2006
  10. ^ Horses & Dreams 2007
  11. ↑ Horses & Dreams: Great careers started in Hagen , Michael Jonas / Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, April 15, 2015
  12. ^ "La Primera Noche": Colorful opening ceremony for this year's Horses & Dreams meets Mexico , April 23, 2010
  13. ↑ Announcement on the homepage
  14. ↑ Invitation flyer
  15. ↑ Horse & Dreams: Horses & Dreams meets Austria 2017. Retrieved on March 22, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Opening ceremony
  17. ↑ For a good cause - Horses & Dreams in Hagen: Red horse will be auctioned , Nadine Grunewald / Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, April 15, 2013
  18. ↑ 20th professional equestrian championship dressage takes place in Unna-Massener Heide , Uta Helkenberg / Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, April 3, 2014
  19. ↑ New webpage for HORSES & DREAMS meets Italy started , press release, April 20, 2009
  20. ↑ Totilas: "He who flies high can fall low" , Evi Simeoni / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 30, 2011
  21. ^ "Horses & Dreams" live in Hagen ( Memento from April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), ndr.de, April 15, 2013