A vet check-up revealed she has suffered a recurrence of an old injury. She will now be retired and is likely to become a broodmare.
The 13-year-old Hanoverian Escada, by Embassy I, belongs to prolific German owner Madeleine Winter-Schulze, the DOKR (German Olympic committee for equestrian sport) and Andreas Busacker.
In 2014, Escada won the CIC3* at Marbach and was part of the gold medal-winning German team at the World Equestrian Games in Caen, France. The crowning individual glory of her career was victory in the CCI4* at Luhmühlen in 2015 and she followed that up with a win in the prestigious Nations Cup CIC3* at Aachen later that year.