Notes to the sports program

Please find below some explanations regarding the events on offer during Horses & Dreams 2011.

CDI = Concours de Dressage International = international Dressage competition

CSI = Concours Saut obstacle International = international Show Jumping competition

CSIYH = international Show Jumping competition for young horses

1*/2*/3*/4*/5*, stand for the level of difficulty

German Professional Dressage Riders' Championship:

Top-class Dressage sport awaits the spectators at the Professional Riders' Championship. Here you will experience, close up, first-class riders with their partner horses.

The professional riders demonstrate just how high the quality and capability of German equestrian training is. This will be most evident during the final with horse exchange. In just five minutes of preparation time, the riders must adapt to unfamiliar horses and show that they are masters of their craft, even under such difficult conditions.

Piaff Award – The Liselott-Schindling Foundation Prize

The participants of the Piaff Award are the future of Dressage sport!

A scene of young Grand Prix riders, aged up to 25 years, who are on their way into the big sport. They are using the chance to gradually acquaint themselves with the highest demands of Dressage riding, without having to compete against pros, 'old hands' and current top riders. In the Piaff Award they are 'amongst friends' and grow together with the challenges.

But what is the 'Piaff Award'? It is a complete series, starting at Horses & Dreams meets Germany, then moving onto the International Dressage Festival in Lingen, via the German Championships in Balve, the World Young Dressage Championships in Verden, and ending with the final in the Stuttgart Schleyerhalle.

The Piaff Award is named after the famous Dressage horse Piaff, partner to Olympic champion Liselott Schindling-Rheinberger, better known as Linsenhoff. It is also the Liselott-Schindling Foundation for the development of Dressage sport which makes this series possible.

TESCH Inkasso Cup – Young Horse Grand Prix

In comparison to the Piaff Development Award, which focusses on the new generation of riders, the TESCH Inkasso Cup – Young Horse Grand Prix is especially for horses aged between 8 and 10 years.

Dressage horses in this age range hardly ever have the opportunity to appear at the biggest competitions in the sport. In the TESCH Inkasso Cup – Young Horse Grand Prix, you find a series which gives these horses the chance to be introduced more gradually into the world of tournaments.

Horses such as Isabell Werth's El Santo NRW, Anabel Balkenhol's Dablino, and even the Holsteiner Hengst Carabas, are just three examples of how seminal the series is.

The series, under the name of the TESCH Inkasso Cup will travel from Hagen a.T.W., via Hamburg, Balve and Werder b. Berlin, to the final in Münster, at the Tournament of Champions.

DKB Riders' Tour

The DKB Riders' Tour is the predominant Show Jumping series in Germany, and has been renowned and coveted since 2001. Since 2010 the tour has been accompanied by its title sponsor, the Deutschen Kreditbank AG (DKB). Seven international stages offer sporting excitement and adventure, as well as a meeting place and social event. Departing from Hagen, via Hamburg and onto Wiesbaden, Münster, Paderborn and Hannover, all the way to Munich, the DKB Riders' Tour attracts and demands nothing less than clever management, first-class horses and riders, and steady nerves.

Proven stars of the arena such as Ludger Beerbaum, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Thomas Frühmann, Carsten Otto Nagel and Denis Lynch have all won the DKB Riders' Tour. The countdown to 6^th November has started, when we will have an answer to the question: Who will be 'Rider of the year 2011'?

SML Tour

It is not often that amateur riders have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in front of an audience in the greatest and most venerable competition arenas in the world. The SML Tour makes it possible! At a range of high-class tournaments the amateurs battle it out for placings and personal bests in events specially designed for them.