International festival hall horse show in Frankfurt
The festival hall tournament in Frankfurt is an international horse show that is held annually one week before Christmas in the festival hall in Frankfurt am Main .
General
The festival hall tournament is organized by the Frankfurt riding and tournament stables Schwarz-Gelb eV from Kronberg , supported in particular by the Linsenhoff family, in cooperation with Oceanside GmbH & Co. KG.
The tournament is advertised as CSI 3 * and CSIYH 1 * (young show jumpers) in show jumping. The international dressage tests are advertised as CDI 5 *. In 2011 the tournament was advertised as CDI-W ( World Cup Dressage ) and CDIY in dressage as well as CSI 4 *, CSIU25-A, CSIAm-A and CSIAm-B in show jumping. In 2012 all dressage tests were held as national tests.
As part of the festival hall tournament , the finals of the Nuremberg Castle Cup and the FN Young Horse Grand Prix will be held.
Tournament history
The Frankfurt Festhalle horse show was founded in 1955 by Josef Neckermann , initially with a budget of 800 German marks. The tournament lasted from then until 1971. After the event had been interrupted for 17 years, the Frankfurt Riding and Driving Club, the City of Frankfurt and the German Equestrian Association held another tournament in the Festhalle in 1989.
In 1991 the organizer changed with a new main sponsor: SKU Veranstaltungs GmbH was now the tournament organizer. This tried to take regional parts of the event out of the program, which led to criticism and the withdrawal of the Equestrian Sports Association of Hesse as an ideal sponsor.
PSM GmbH later took over the tournament as organizer. After the business separation from Paul Schockemöhle , the former PSM managing director Dr. Kaspar Funke organized the tournament with the newly founded Escon Marketing GmbH in 2002. This organizes the tournament to this day.
The tournament of 2003 was initially canceled, but it took place after all due to the commitment of Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff and Manfred Louven from the Frankfurt Riding and Driving Club. A year later, the show competition of the Hessian clubs was added to the program, and in 2005 a World Cup test in dressage.
When it was held in 2012, Paul Schockemöhle's company PST Marketing GmbH took over the organization of the tournament. This phase lasted until the 2018 tournament. From 2019 the organization will be carried out by Oceanside GmbH & Co. KG, represented by Matthias Rath . The international dressage tests were upgraded to CDI 5 * in 2019 after several years at CDI 4 * level.
program
Until 2011
Until 2010 the tournament ran from Wednesday to Sunday, in 2011 the tournament was shortened by one day.
The "Hessentag" marked the beginning of the tournament. Until 2010 this was the entire Wednesday. In 2011, the actual “Hessentag” comprised most of Thursday's exams. Organizationally, the "Hessentag" is a separately advertised tournament aimed at show jumping, dressage and eventing riders from Hessen. The program ranged from equestrian competitions to jumping and dressage tests of the advanced level. The Hessentag has been held since 2006. In addition, further exams up to advanced level will be held on Thursday. A show competition between the Hessian clubs will conclude Thursday.
Friday was opened with dressage tests. This was followed, among other things, by amateur jumping competitions. These exams, which end on Sunday, are advertised as CSIAm-A / CSIAm-B and are aimed at amateurs and horse owners who are active as riders themselves. The amateur jumping competitions consist of two sub-series - medium and large - which increase in difficulty up to the advanced level. The final of the day is the Frankfurt Championship - a jumping competition that was endowed with € 30,000 in 2010.
Several major jumping and dressage competitions will take place on Saturday, including the final of the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal. In the “Champions Cup” on Saturday afternoon there was the last opportunity to qualify for the Grand Prix. Spread over Saturday evening and Sunday morning, the World Cup final for young dressage riders was held annually in Frankfurt.
The final day of the tournament is Sunday. The Grand Prix Freestyle, the final of the European Youngster Cup and the Grand Prix (Masters League final) took place here.
From 2012
Thursday continues to be the “Hessentag”, and Friday also retained its basic structure. The highlight of the tournament Saturday is still the final of the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, the Grand Prix Spécial on Saturday morning is new.
Sunday begins with amateur jumping competitions. The morning is dedicated to dressage, the young horses Grand Prix Final and then the Grand Prix Freestyle. In the afternoon there will be two jumping competitions, the grand prize is the sporting conclusion of the tournament.
useful information
- Every year since 2004, several jumping obstacles of the tournament have been designed by children's homes. The organizer bears the costs for this, and a four-digit public prize is awarded to the homes for the most beautiful obstacles.
- Successful horses have been bid farewell to the sport several times at the Festhalle horse show: Wahajama Unicef (successful horse from Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff , farewell 2009), Mac Kinley (ridden by Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and Mario Stevens , farewell 2011) and Lucie ( Lars Nieberg , farewell 2011).
The most important exams
Nuremberg Castle Cup Final
On Saturday morning, after the Grand Prix Freestyle, the final of the Nuremberg Burg Cup for dressage riders takes place. The final of this national tournament series for 7- to 9-year-old dressage horses is held every year as the Prix St. Georg Special. The prize money in this test was € 10,000 in 2019.
The best three couples of the finals will compete again on Saturday evening for the winner's prize. This freestyle-like examination is endowed with € 3,000.
Final Louisdor Prize
Since 2012, the next age group of dressage horses after the Nuremberg Burg Pokal has also been represented in Frankfurt. The young horse Grand Prix series of the German Equestrian Association has been sponsored by the Liselott and Klaus Rheinberger Foundation since 2012 and has been called the Louisdor Prize since then. The series serves as an introduction to dressage tests at Grand Prix level for eight to ten year old horses; the tests are advertised as short Grand Prix (national dressage task S10).
In the finals in Frankfurt, the winners and the second-placed pairs of the series' special stages spread over the season are entitled to start. At the final tournament there will be an entry test and the final test, the latter is endowed with around € 20,000.
Winner (not in Frankfurt until 2011):
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Grand Prix Spécial
A Grand Prix Spécial was held for the first time in 2012 as part of the Festhalle horse show. The qualification test for this is, as for the Grand Prix Freestyle, the Grand Prix de Dressage. The prize money for this test in 2019 was 30,000 euros.
Until 2015, the test was a special test for the Meggle Champions , a national series in dressage riding.
Winner:
- 2012: Madeleine Witte-Vrees with Wynton (72.844%)
- 2013: Isabell Werth with Bella Rose (78.458%)
- 2014: Marcela Krinke Susmelj with Molberg (74.667%)
- 2015: Beatrice Buchwald with Weihegold OLD (75.961%)
- 2016: Anabel Balkenhol with Dablino FRH (76.706%)
- 2017: Jessica von Bredow-Werndl with Zaire-E (75.529%)
- 2018: Kristina Bröring-Sprehe with Desperados FRH (78.085%)
- 2019: Benjamin Werndl with Famoso OLD (76.617%)
Grand Prix Freestyle
The Grand Prix Freestyle takes place on the morning of the last day of the tournament. The examination was endowed with € 30,000 in 2019.
After the exam was advertised as CDI 3 * in 2004, it was significantly upgraded in the following year. After the Düsseldorf Philipshalle hall tournament had hosted the dressage world cup finals in 2004, the tournament there could no longer be held from 2005 due to the loss of sponsors. Then the tournaments in Frankfurt and Stuttgart announced their interest in holding a dressage world cup test , and Frankfurt was awarded the contract. As part of a planned streamlining of the Dressage World Cup for the 2012/2013 season, however, Frankfurt lost its World Cup status to Stuttgart.
As a replacement for the Dressage World Cup, a stage of the World Dressage Masters should take place here from 2012 . However, this was rejected by the world association FEI , a WDM stage in an indoor tournament would have been in competition with the World Cup.
Winner (from 2005):
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Grand Prix
The main test of the show jumping riders at the Festhallen-Reitturnier Frankfurt, called the “Grand Prix of Hessen”, takes place as the last regular test of the tournament on Sunday afternoon. In 2010 it was the third highest endowed jumping competition in Germany with prize money of € 250,000 including material prizes. In 2019, the exam was endowed with around € 70,000. The test from the jumping competition with jump-off is advertised, the obstacle height is up to 1.55 meters.
Winner (from 2005):
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Exams no longer carried out in Frankfurt
World Cup Final Young Riders (Dressage)
In addition to the dressage world cup ranking, the dressage world cup final for young riders was added to the program in 2005. Unlike the World Cup for riders / seniors, the Young Riders World Cup does not consist of fixed evaluation tests. Instead, all CDI Y, CDIOY and CDIU25 tournaments from October of the previous year to October of the current year count as qualifying exams. For each rider, the average of his two best tests counts.
A total of twelve participants are allowed to start at the finals in Frankfurt, these are distributed as follows:
- five participants from Western Europe
- a participant from Central / Eastern Europe
- two participants from North America
- a participant from South America
- a participant from Asia / Africa / Australia-Oceania
- the previous year's winner, if this is still a young rider (otherwise a wildcard is awarded )
In the run-up to the finals, there will be an entry and qualification test at the festival hall tournament. The best six riders of the qualification test then start in the A final, the rest in the B final. Both finals are freestyle tasks for young riders . These are played on Saturday evening and early Sunday morning.
Schenker Deutschland AG has sponsored the World Cup final since 2005 . The final was last held in Frankfurt in 2011, from 2012 the World Cup of Young Riders “unfortunately no longer fit into the structure of the tournament”, according to the organizers.
Winner A-Final (from 2005):
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Final examination European Youngster Cup (show jumping)
In 2009 the tournament was expanded to include a CSIU25-A - a show jumping tournament for riders up to 25 years of age. Since then, the Festhalle horse show has been the last evaluation test of the European Youngster Cup / Young Masters League. This last special stage, known as the “Grand Final”, took place on the Sunday afternoon before the Grand Prix. It was a jumping competition with jump-offs with obstacles up to 1.45 meters high. The examination was endowed with € 20,000. With the takeover of the tournament by PST Marketing, the European Youngster Cup final was moved to Salzburg .
Masters League Final (Show Jumping)
The Grand Prix was also the final of the Masters League until 2011 .
media
The Grand Prix and the most important jumping competition on Saturday, the “Champions Cup”, were traditionally broadcast live or as a summary by hr-fernsehen . From 2009, DSF / Sport1 also broadcast other tests such as the final of the Nuremberg Castle Cup and in 2009 the Grand Prize in place of the Hessischer Rundfunk.
The tests of the tournament have also been broadcast live by the German IPTV broadcaster ClipMyHorse since 2008 .
Web links
- Website of the Festhalle Reitturniers Frankfurt (from 2019)
- Internet presence of PST Paul Schockemöhle Marketing GmbH (organizer until 2018)
- Internet presence of Escon Marketing GmbH (events until 2011)
Individual evidence
- ^ Frankfurter Festhalleenturnier: With Anky and the jumping elite
- ↑ FEI tournament calendar: Festhallen-Reitturnier Frankfurt 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ national dressage competition 2012 (PDF; 44 kB)
- ↑ Hessian equestrian history: Part 4: 1988 to 1998 - Different riding cultures exist side by side ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www2.escon-marketing.com/themen/6medien/mappe.html?tid=80&pid=53473 phobot link | date = 2018-04 | archivebot = 2018-04-16 06:31:55 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: //www2.escon-marketing.com/themen/6medien/mappe.html? tid = 80 & pid = 53473}} : Managing Director (no longer available online)
- ↑ see German Classics # Geschichte
- ↑ first archived version from http://www.escon-marketing.de, on which the festival hall tournament appears (December 5, 2005)
- ↑ a b 1998 to 2008 - The horse as an economic factor and the equestrian as a research object ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Frankfurt festival hall tournament without spark, instead with Schockemöhle , St. Georg, January 25, 2012
- ↑ Imprint , festhallenreitturnier-frankfurt.com, accessed on December 28, 2019
- ^ Message from PST Paul Schockemöhle Marketing GmbH on the change of the official organizer on facebook.com, April 5, 2019
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Excerpt from the tournament announcement Hessentag 2010
- ↑ Result of the Frankfurt Championships 2010
- ↑ Tournament program 2012 ( Memento of the original from November 7th, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Home children doing handicrafts for the International Festival Hall Horse Show Frankfurt , November 16, 2007
- ↑ Home children decorate obstacles at the International Festival Hall Horse Show , November 10, 2010
- ↑ Frankfurt: Good bye Wahajama UNICEF
- ↑ Frankfurt: Ahlmann's triumph and two farewells ( memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Reiter Revue International, December 18, 2011
- ^ For the first time in Frankfurt - the Louisdor Prize , press release, October 11, 2012
- ^ Louisdor Prize - Young Horses Grand Prix (FN), 2019 application form
- ^ Result of the Louisdor Prize - Final 2019
- ↑ Louisdor Prize, FN series: Grand Prix for young horses, pferd-aktuell.de
- ^ Result Grand Prix Spécial 2019
- ↑ Result of the Grand Prix Freestyle 2019
- ↑ Dressage World Cup in Frankfurt? , October 16, 2005
- ↑ FEI tournament calendar ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Neumünster remains World Cup station for dressage riders , St. Georg , June 29, 2011
- ↑ CDI Frankfurt to Be Included in 2012 World Dressage Masters Line-Up , Eurodressage, February 29, 2012 (English)
- ↑ a b Festhalle without WDM and World Cup , dressursport-deutschland.de, September 9, 2012
- ↑ Extract from the 2010 tournament announcement
- ↑ Result of the Grand Prix of Hesse 2019
- ↑ Regulations Dressage World Cup Young Riders ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, as of 2011; PDF; 59 kB)
