Aachen CHIO 2011

As credentialed media, I have been coming to Aachen for 23 years! Last year just before I was to take off for Aachen again, I wound up in the hospital for three weeks after a horrible accident on my four-wheeler ATV described by my Euro friends...

When the result of Steffen Peters and Ravel’s score was announced 82.000 following Matthias Alexander Rath and Totilas in Sunday’s Deutsche Bank Preis Deutsche Bank Grand Prix Freestyle with an 82.825 the mostly German crowd expressed their...

Was he going to win again? The attention of the crowd was focused on Matthias Alexander Rath and Totilas’ performance – could he possibly be beaten by his main rivals Laura Bechtolsheimer/Great Britain and Adelinde Cornelissen? Before Totilas...

At the World Equestrian Festival CHIO in Aachen, Germany American Chester Weber and his four-in-hand team won the second dressage test in driving, after his second place finish in the first test to World Champion Australian Boyd Excel. Weber...

As the excitement of the day began to build at the Nation’s Cup Dressage Competition at the 2011 Aachen CHIO security was tightened in the afternoon for the much anticipated performance of Totilas, the world Dressage super star who has created a...

The team that is competing in Aachen will – as long as the riders and horses remain fit and healthy – also be the equipe that are to represent Germany at the European Championships in Rotterdam in August. However, Isabell Werth, Anabel Balkenhol...

Our first venture onto the Aachen show grounds was to attend a wonderful invitation only Media party held in the VIP center overlooking the warm up for the showjumping. Opening ceremonies was just concluding and we met Ingrid Klimke who was...

After a perfect flight in business class to Amsterdam (thanks to frequent flyer miles), we made the trip to Belgium where we are settling in with Astrid Appels and Raf Derksen on their beautiful farm near Hasselt. Beginning Wednesday we will be...