Tag: Show jumping
Show jumping: wrestling in the saddle – sport
“The idea is good, but it comes five years too late,” says show jumping national coach Otto Becker. The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) wants to revive the interest of the…
André Thieme at the World Riding Championships: “The most embarrassing moment of my life” – Sport
André Thieme is not someone who crawls into a mouse hole when things are going badly. Not this time either. The reigning European champion, who was also a three-time show…
Youngsters in show jumping: With full horse sense – sport
Martin Fuchs, the 29-year-old winner of the recent World Cup in Leipzig, has one. The two young Brits Harry Charles, 21, and Jack Whitaker, 20, also have one. And the…
CHIO Aachen: There’s a lot going on with the horses – sport
What luck that the snow conditions in Kitzbühel were so bad that winter at the beginning of the 1980s. Otherwise Max Kühner might never have gotten into riding. No skiing…