Happy and Full House

Happiness was the motto of the evening. The many people, horses, ponies and circus rider Michele Krämer already radiated happiness in the first colorful display in front of 15,000 spectators. "We have 'full house', there is no more free space." The President of the Wiesbaden Riding and Driving Club Kristina Dyckerhoff and Vice-President Dr. Hanns-Dietrich Rahn were overwhelmed. "The full park, this atmosphere and after the two years that are behind us, we would not have dared to hope for that."

Victoria carriage and leisure vehicle, Shetland pony in front of a marathon carriage, a Landau from the year 1876, an 82-year-old driver with Shetland pony stallions from Riedstadt, a Vis a Vis carriage, wild horses from Dülmen, Freiberg and licensed Haflinger stallions - the carriage image is traditional, it is modernity and history and it demonstrated 23 times passion on the carriages of the 23 lovingly prepared carriages.

Unpack your lederhosen – with the Oberland riders. Four tough guys from Bavaria in lederhosen standing on their draft horses, three barefoot, one with shoes, in the style of the Hungarian Post and with a lot of power and horsepower. Immediately afterwards, the 'smallest aliens ever seen' came to the castle park on Shetland ponies with the show group from Wackernheim.

Another traditional image: the hunting field around the seven-time German champion of hunting horn blowers on horseback, Dr. Gerhard Obermayr, member of the board of directors of the WRFC and at the same time Wiesbaden's head of the city council - 104 hunting riders and two packs of dogs with 25 dogs each, the castle park trembled!

15,000 spectators and yet it was suddenly very quiet around the large Wiesbaden jumping arena: Anne-Gaelle Bertho from France spoke to her horses, with her body, her gestures, her looks. Four horses and a Shetland - captivated at the slightest sign. This is probably almost the completion of the communication. The dragon riders from Büttelborn rolled and rode into the square with chariots, steeds and Pegasus in pony form and reminded of the distant and yet so close Ukraine with a banner: "Let's ride, not fight!"

She won the gold medal in 2-man bobsleigh at the Beijing Olympics, Deborah Levi. The star guest at the Wiesbaden Horse Night and the lucky fairy at the Wiesbaden casino.

Great prizes had hardly been raffled when Yvonne Gutsche came and amazed the whole of Wiesbaden: through a 2.50 meter high cardboard wall, between burning, meter-high columns of fire, galloped into the moving trailer and out through a dark, black fabric tunnel. Stunt rider Gutsche and her mare Bailey demonstrated the impossible. Forwards, backwards, sideways, standing, turning, lying down - the Future Guys twirl around their horses at breathtaking speed. This is an absolute full throttle show. Laury Tisseur, the man from France, is more relaxed and confident on horseback than others on the ground – galloping, slalom, over small obstacles. Back on the ground, he plays with his horses like a good buddy. Certainly: a special way of togetherness!

The castle park in pyro magic - that's also a tradition. A magical end to a colorful horse evening under the motto 'Happiness'. Mr. PferdeNacht, Uli Schneider, the organizer and initiator of the PferdeNacht, could not have 'christened' this evening more appropriately. The 26th Wiesbadener PferdeNacht was a happy firework display all about horses. Just as the Wiesbaden spectators love them and have missed them so much over the past two years.

The horse night opener
In the Six Bar competition shortly before the Wiesbaden Horse Night began, Mathias Nørhedsen Johansen was practically given wings. With eight-year-old Irishman Travalo, he climbed a whopping two meters, which none of his nine colleagues managed. Victory in the R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG prize went to the 28-year-old Dane. Traditionally, the Six Bar show-jumping opened the evening of the Wiesbadener PferdeNacht and triggered renewed cheering and enthusiasm among the Schlosspark spectators. (KiK/pe&pa)