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FEI World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses, Lanaken (BEL), 27-30 September

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30 September 2007 Author: webmaster
Sunday Final - 7 yr olds: Freese stands in the way of Morsink’s second gold 
 

Gerben Morsink almost did it again. Bastian Freese, one of the riders in Paul Schockemöhle’s barn, prevented the Dutch young rider from winning his second gold medal today at Zangersheide in Lanaken. The new World Champion of the 7 year old show jumpers is called Caballero (Champion du Lys x Acord II), Carthino Z and Morsink settled for silver, Yves Vanderhasselt from Belgium rode Muscaris d’Ariel to bronze.

With the French state owned stallion Mylord Carthago HN in fourth place, the 7 year old class of the FEI World Breeding Jumping Championship for Young Horses was dominated by stallions. World champion Caballero, by Ludger Beerbaum’s former top horse Champion du Lys out of a full sister to the Westphalian stallion Pontifex, is approved in Westphalia. Silver medal winner Carthino Z, a full brother to the dam of golden six year old Zekina Z, is approved with Zangersheide and KWPN. Third placed Muscaris d’Ariel (Diamant de Semilly x Laudanum xx) was bred in France, came to Belgium at an early age, was approved with the BWP and is constantly in the money at Belgian championships and cycles classiques.

Bastian Freese (25) was a clear winner aboard Caballero. “It’s a careful horse with great mentality”, said Freese. “He always looks for the next obstacle to jump.”

Freese rides the new world champion only since the daughter of Taiwanese owner Chen decided to go to the United States for studies. “His own rider normally trains with us in Mühlen, she will ride him again once she’s back from America.” The Chen family bought Caballero last year at the PSI auction of Paul Schockemöhle and Ulrich Kasselmann.

Gerben Morsink didn’t push Carthino Z to its limits and neither did Yves Vanderhasselt with Muscaris d’Ariel. “It was only a jump off with seven combinations”, the Belgian amateur commented. “So I figured that not all riders would stay clear. I’m more than happy to win a medal.”

Vanderhasselt and Morsink both are amateurs. The Belgian is employed in his father’s transportation company (120 lorries), Morsink just finished his first year technical physics cum laude. “Stupid, it means that I could have spent more time with my horses!”

The battle of the studbooks had a varied result in the 7 year old class, but Selle Français did very well with horses in places 3 (Muscaris), 4 (Mylord Carthago, ridden by Pénélope Leprevost) and 5 (Mélodie Ardente, ridden by Simon Delestre).

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