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Chasing down their 23rd European team Dressage title, Germany took a firm grip on the leaderboard at the halfway stage of the Grand Prix at the Longines FEI European Championships 2017 in Gothenburg (SWE) this evening.

The FEI World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses in Ermelo/Netherlands were a triumphant march for Hanoverian horses. Don Martillo won the division of five-year-old horses, Lordswood Dancing Diamond the division of six-year-olds.

“It’s special to win again after ten years, to come back with a different kind of horse and after a really great season. I’m very happy and I’m also thankful, because I know what it’s like to be downstairs, and I’m really happy and grateful to be upstairs again!”

“I’m completely happy, but I’ll have to calm my horse down before Saturday because she got so excited in the prizegiving!”

Germany’s Isabell Werth strutted to her fifth victory in the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2017 Western European League in Gothenburg, Sweden, today riding Emilio

This was the German rider’s fourth victory of the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2016/2017 Western European League at Neumunster

Isabell Werth and the fabulous mare Weihegold secured their third win of the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2016/2017 Western European League in Amsterdam today

Great Britain’s Carl Hester won the fifth leg of the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2016/2017 Western European League with Nip Tuck at London Olympia, and then he said goodbye to the great Valegro

The world no. 1 partnership of Isabell Werth and Weihegold led a host-nation whitewash at the third leg of the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2016/2017 Western European League in Stuttgart, Germany today

Germany’s lady rider and her outstanding mare are now top of the world dressage rankings thanks to their stellar win at last week’s FEI World Cup Dressage in Lyon