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I AGREE with the comments of Nina Barbour and Katie Jerram-Hunnable in their recent columns (7 and 14 April editions of Horse & Hound magazine), that the exponential rise in the cost of living and travel is going to change the way we compete. These factors have certainly made me think differently about competition plans […]
The World Equestrian Center Dressage III CDI3 continued on Saturday, April 17, with the highlight class of the week, the FEI Grand Prix Freestyle CDI3 . With a bright routine set to the music of the television show “Glee” that received a score of 75.065%, Shelly Francis (USA) and Danilo landed atop the podium out of 13 entries in the class. In Small Tour, Kevin Kohmann (GER) and Five Star made it two in a row, winning the FEI Intermediate 1 CDI3 . The World Equestrian Center Dressage III CDI3 concludes on Sunday, April 18, 2021.
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Francis and Danilo, a 17-year-old Hanoverian gelding by De Niro 6 x Andiamo 28 owned by Patricia Stempel, helped the U.S. Dressage Team take the bronze medal at the 2019 Nations Cup CDIO5 in Aachen, Germany in 2019 and competed at the 2018 FEI World Cup Dressage Final in Paris. The pair took the 2020 competition year off not only due to COVID, but also because Danilo was recovering from injury.