German Olympic eventing gold medallist Ingrid Klimke has retired one of her top horses, SAP Escada FRH. Escada led after dressage and showjumping in the Event Rider Masters class at Wiesbaden earlier this month, but ran out near the end of the cross-country. 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.
German Olympic eventing gold medallist Ingrid Klimke has retired one of her top horses, SAP Escada FRH. Escada led after dressage and showjumping in the Event Rider Masters class at Wiesbaden earlier this month, but ran out near the end of the cross-country. 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.