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The lengths then became noticeable at the\nbeginning of the actual evening program, when the minute of silence for the\ndeceased breeders Liesl Vetter and Willi Poth, for Dorothy Stream\n(ANC Committee), Gijs Eggink (ECAHO Official, DC) and Ryan Jones (Presenter) stretched\ninto 10 Minutes. And also Dr.\nNagels talk about the beginnings of the VZAP and the ANC was\nvery interesting, but because it was held in German the international audience didn’t\nunderstand – and then 15 minutes are damn long …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But one of the highlights of the evening was\nclearly the “Jump & Drive” performance – that was pure action!\nNele Schlichte ran with Al Ashar and “her” pony team a\nrace against the team of Jonathan Marquardt with Aziz Ibn Sauda Zahra and his\npony team. Everyone had their fun, the audience was\nthrilled, and then when “coincidentally” the same time was measured\nfor both teams, timekeeper Wolfgang Eberhardt had the laugh on his side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The honoring of the Ismer family, who received the\nGraf Landsberg Velen medal of the FN in bronze this year, was also well\ndeserved. Successfully leading a stud of this size over\n60 years in the third generation is truly a feat that is second to none!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Very nice was also the honoring of horses like\nEssteema, the German-bred Triple Crown winner. Even\nthough she was not present in person, she and her breeder Reinhard Sax had more\nthan earned this honor. The same applies to Al Lahab, who\nwas already bought as a foal by Inge and Hansj\u00fcrgen Friedmann and also achieved\nthe world champion title (and more). He came from Italy via a detour to Aachen and then back home to the Lunzenhof.\nIt’s nice to see such well-deserved horses again – this idea should\nbe developed further! But why Rihab Al Nasser was invited,\nand for which reason Sheikh Nawaf bin Nasser\nal-Thani was honored, I did not quite get…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And another honoring was on the program: Haifi El\nSorrento, the best “dressage Arabian” Germany currently has to offer, was\nawarded the WAHO Trophy. Gold in dressage, in Classic\nPleasure and in Classic Allround made him the most successful participant in the\nEuropean Championship for Sport Arabians in Wiener Neustadt this year, along\nwith many other successes in dressage – also against warm blooded horses up to\nclass M. Since 2010 he is trained by Susanne Hoyler and\nis a wonderful ambassador for the Arabian riding horse. Owner\nEdith Lipp accepted the WAHO Trophy from the hands of WAHO Vice President Marek\nTrela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end, a quadrille followed with 20 German\nriding ponies, all of which (supposedly) have at least 25% Arab blood. That was action again, the audience was happy, and one or the other of\nthe caprioles was skillfully counter-acted by the young riders. But a quadrille of (well) ridden Arabians would have been more\neffective for the promotion of the Arabian horse, and one wonders why there was\nno quadrille with Arabians – it does not have to be 20. Thus,\nthe Arabian breed association has at best advertised the ponies…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All in all, an evening that also offered the “little breeder” nice entertainment, even if the program is still expandable and in some respects “well meant, but not always well done”.
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