Steffen and Shannon Peters Continue Their Winning Ways

The husband-and-wife team placed first and second at the USET Intermediaire Championship at Gladstone, NJ, and kept their wining ways starting 2007 in victory at L.A. Winter Dressage.

Sponsor Akiko Yamazaki bought Lombardi II a few years ago, for herself to ride, but the gave the ride to Steffen. The Holsteiner gelding ( 1991 , by Locato) produced convincing wins in the Grand Prixs at the LA Winter Dressage: 74.375 in one class, tying teammate Guenter Seidel's score on his WEG horse, Aragon, and receiving a 72.917 in another Grand Prix, winning the Open Division for the Markel High Point Series Award. "I think he is stronger and more fit now, more secure in the arena," says Steffen.
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Steffen, riding Lila Kommerstad's Marlando , an 8 year old Dutch gelding by Balzflug, earned a 74.00 from the judges. On the 7 year old stallion, Peggy Furth's Lord Chalk Hill (DWB by Lord Sinclair), Steffen got a 71.5 ,placing second to himself. Shannon, on Annie Hewitt's Dutch gelding Luxor (1993, by Ferro) got a 70 for third