The new Federal Champion of four-year-old riding horses - mares and geldings - is called Macadamja. The Hanoverian mare prevailed over Sézane and Robby Brown in the Prize of the Gerd Sosath stallion station and secured the black-red-gold sash for the Gießelmann breeding house in Barver.
Macadamja, a daughter of Morricone I, had already stood out in the final qualification and was able to repeat her victory in the final, whereby the judges rated the quality of the basic gaits even higher: 9.5 for the trot, 9.0 for the uphill canter and 8.5 for the sure-footed walk with a good pull to the rider's hand. The conformation of the statuesque mare was also worth a "very good" to Tim Koch, Peter Olsson and Jürgen Uthoff. The judges only made small concessions in the rideability. Macadamja presented herself very confidently under her own rider Simone Kaiser, but had a little difficulty adjusting to squad rider Carina Scholz, who tested the nine finalists under saddle as an outside rider. For this, the mare received a score of 8.0 and thus an overall score of 8.8, in which the spectators also saw the cheered winner. For breeder Heinrich Gießelmann, Macadamja is already the second Bundeschampionesse. Six years ago he already produced a winner at the Warendorf riding horse arena with the later winner of the Nuremberg Burg Cup, Destacado, in addition to five runner-up titles for other horses presented by his son Jan-Dirk. Macadamja was bred out of Santanyi (by San Amour I), Bundessieger mare in Lienen, which Heinrich Gießelmann had purchased as a foal.
Also in the last group was the Westphalian mare Sézane (by Secret), third at the Westphalian Week and bred by Bernhard Ilting-Reuke from the line of the former Bundeschampion Fynch Hatton. The light-footed, elegant mare impressed with three evenly good basic gaits (8.5 each), but above all with her rideability. She reacted willingly to the aids of her rider and the rider from outside and was rewarded with the highest score of 10. "It doesn't get any better than this", was the judge's comment. In the end, the black mare owned by Katharina Nolte received a score of 8.7. She was presented by Sina Aringer, who qualified another Secret offspring for the final with the Oldenburg Summerglow OLD.
Breeder and owner Sonja Ellerbrock and her rider Christina Ellendt won the bronze medal. Her large-framed bay gelding Robby Brown (height 1.77 m) went at the tête of his division today, so that he was able to show off his very good basic gaits (trot and canter: 8.5, walk: 9.0) better than in the final qualification. In addition, he had a very good rideability and a good conformation, where the judges paid particular attention to whether the horses' "body quality was translated into movement quality". Robby Brown was the only Holsteiner in the riding horse lot. The son of Rock Forever I descends from a dam by Aljetto (by Aljano), who was also bred by the Ellerbrock Breeding Association, was a Federal participant and covered in natural foaling at his own Barkholz Stud.
Fourth place went to the dark bay Hanoverian mare Donnamita (by Don Martillo - Dimaggio) with an overall score of 8.5, whose rider, Tessa Frank, was able to receive the Animal Welfare Prize awarded by the BMEL again this year. Fifth place with a score of 8.4 went to the DSP Champion Del Ray (by Don Royal - Quatergold, rider: Mareike Mimberg), whose breeder Dr. Frank Klakow is also represented by a Don Royal offspring in the three-year-old stallion class this year.
