Her ride was eagerly awaited – and the spectators were not disappointed. Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (Germany), four-time Olympic champion, world champion and six-time European champion won the Grand Prix for the Prize of Abelein Event Service at the 39th International STUTTGART GERMAN MASTERS Horse Show on Friday morning. Saddled atop the ten-year-old Hanoverian gelding Diallo BB in the qualifier for Saturday’s World Cup freestyle (17.00 hrs), the pair were awarded 73.261 per cent by the international judges.
“Diallo was a little powder keg right from the word go. I’m incredibly proud with the way he got to grips with himself during the class,” commented the delighted Bavarian who won the World Cup freestyle in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in 2019. With a view to tomorrow’s competition she said, “I’m looking forward to what’s in store. Diallo has so much potential.”
Her score relegated the Swede Patrick Kittel, who had been out in front up until then, into second place. The 49-year-old presented his gelding Touchdown and took the lead with 72.804 per cent, but then Jessica von Bredow-Werndl went one better.
One place further back in third was the six-time U-25 European champion Raphael Netz with Great Escape Camelot, a 14-year-old Dutch bred gelding (72.478). Netz went out on his own in 2024 and now runs a stables with his partner Selina Söder in Bavaria. He had previously been based at Jessica von Bredow-Werndl’s set-up in Aubenhausen for eight years.
