Daniel Deusser wrote the main number of Wellington to his name yesterday. For this he counted on his faithful partner, Scuderia 1918 Tobago Z (by Tangelo vd Zuuthoeve). "We are a team, I think that makes the difference in the end," said the German number three in the world afterwards.
"We've been working together for a long time now," he continues. "There is a reason why he is my best horse. I know him very well and he knows exactly what is expected of him in the ring. On Sunday I did some jumps with him since he hadn't been competing for two months. So I expected that he might be a bit stiff. Yesterday I started him in the 1m40 class so he could see the arena but once I started it was as if he had never had a break in a competition. He knows what it's all about. That's why I decided to start him in the big class on Thursday and I don't think anyone noticed that he had been resting for two months. He's the smartest horse I have in my stables," he continued.
"When you see me in the warm-up, it seems like Tobago is very quiet. It seems like he doesn't have much flood and like he doesn't like to 'walk,'" Deusser explains. "However, I think that's one of his strengths. He saves his energy for the right moment. In the end, it's the 60 seconds in the ring that count, not those 10 minutes in the warm up. Both of us are hugely competitive; When we start, we want to win," he concludes.
Source: Press Release