Michael Jung at Stuttgart - vid :)

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As far as I know nobody else has posted this: it is Michael Jung's winning round in the indoor eventing at Stuttgart the other day :) Frank Ostholt 2nd, Ruy 3rd.

I actually took the link from the wonderful EWW - in return for this little plug hopefully H won't mind ;) :)

I'm loving the fluency of the round, not to mention the speed. Howwever, the changes of gear for different fences, as Yogi talks about, are very clear so it is a good example. Interestingly, though, he comes almost flat out to a skinny which is a kind-profiled brush - goes to show that once our horses are educated we shouldn't get backward to these kind of fences but rather ride them, whatever they are, as though they were 15 foot across not 5 foot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWP4_LyL-NU

Enjoy :) :) :)
 
What horse is he riding? Really like the look of them together, but don't recognise the horse. Like Kerilli said, it was very clever and nippy over the angled brushes!

Thanks for posting!
 
Apparently the horse is
"the eight-year-old Trakehner Vincent TSF (by Grafenstolz TSF and out of a mare from the very good Russian bred show jumping stallion Almox Prints)"
Though I have to say did not look very Trakehner like to me!
 
Blimey, that's got some motor,:eek: but careful with it. I'd like one of those please, but doubt my (delicate, girly, feisty, floaty-floaty foal by the same sire...:p) Gertie will end up looking and going like that.:rolleyes:
 
Baydale said:
Blimey, that's got some motor,:eek: but careful with it. I'd like one of those please, but doubt my (delicate, girly, feisty, floaty-floaty foal by the same sire...:p) Gertie will end up looking and going like that.:rolleyes:
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With no disrespect to Michael's horse, I rather hope Gertie doesn't look like that :eek: But she is allowed to go like that :cool:

And Jules, couldn't agree more :)

ETA and I'm just going to watch it again, but I thought the horse spooked a bit coming into the angled brushes, possibly when it suddenly saw the second one...
 
Wow, I wonder where that head came from? :D Good jumping horse, though, and certainly fit for purpose.

Very impressive.

Interesting ride, especially knowing a bit about his training/riding. It looks a bit "American", which is a bit the same philosophy - lots of training and gymnastics then in the ring, keep kicking. :)
 
TD I thought the same. Am also ashamed to think that my first impression of the horse was that it was a bit of a Carthorse :$ sorry lol but it is absolutely cracking!
 
He has won it four years in a row so they obviously picked the wrong year - easy mistake to make ;) Does explain it, though, as it doesn't look much like it's Dad or indeed much like a trakenher, as several have pointed out :cool: Still a lovely round though... *Beetles off to look at the 2010 round which I assume is on Baydale's link...*
 
Now THAT's a Graf :) Very classy horse and very fast round, cheeky jumping the trees all the time :D But I almost prefer the other round which to me was more fluent and rhythmic, he set Vincent up more I think...
 
Yes I preferred the first round of the bay with the blaze too - just seemed more fluent. And yes I saw the jumping trees bit too that seemed to spoil the flow a bit but it did look they had been put there to allow that to happen.
 
The tree jumping happened somewhere else recently . . . last Olympics?? There was a line of greenery to cut off an inside turn on the line to one fence and the Americans were all told to jump it. Caused a bit of screaming but there's nothing in the rules to say you can't jump something extra.

Do they still let that happen eventing? I remember seeing an old Badminton tape one year where a couple of people jumped a regular field fence. I guess now they'd flag the gap and do it that way.
 
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The tree jumping happened somewhere else recently . . . last Olympics?? There was a line of greenery to cut off an inside turn on the line to one fence and the Americans were all told to jump it. Caused a bit of screaming but there's nothing in the rules to say you can't jump something extra.

Do they still let that happen eventing? I remember seeing an old Badminton tape one year where a couple of people jumped a regular field fence. I guess now they'd flag the gap and do it that way.
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Yep, it was the last Olympics, I remember watching the first one do it and thinking "Ha!", very few other imitated them though.
It still happens eventing, but rarely, I think. Most 'hazard' routes are much higher than the jumpable parts of the fences.
There was 1 on the 3* CCI course I did in Germany... none of us had seen it but the Polish guys did and it went round the lorry park like wildfire on Friday night (very generous of them) - I was one who rushed out Saturday morning to look at it, realised it was on, and took it. Made a very difficult combination quite a bit easier... ;) ;) (my mare was rather surprised to be asked to jump over 3'11" through about a 6" gap between bits of fir though.)
 
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At Oasby in the spring on the Novice track there was a line of firs to make the line to the corner harder, so you basically had to take it at a more acute angle than you might have chosen to otherwise, inviting a runout. However, the trees were quite widely spaced and a number of riders in the Pony Trial worked out that you could squeeze a pony through a gap in the trees and give yourself a nice inviting line :)
 
Ooops, sorry - was sent the wrong link by our lovely German reporter and failed to spot it... too busy being impressed by Michael's round. Have added correct link to story (thanks for that) - but why did none of you email me? Senility is well and truly kicking in here, I need help! ;)
 
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