Leni-Sophie Gosmann claims Pony victory, Schmieder wins Children

Anna Schmieder and the impressive black gelding Freispiel won this morning’s Children Team Competition with a score of 78.675%. That result gave her a narrow lead over yesterday’s winner, Shirley Vanerom with Ogami van het Beukenhof, who scored just 0.3% lower. The Netherlands’ Neeltje Twint finished third with Ein Champion ZS on a score of 74.825%.

In the pony division, we also saw a different winner than in the Team Test. Leni-Sophie Gosmann and Diamantini EA WE delivered the winning performance in the Individual Test with 71.027%. Yesterday’s winner, Dutch rider Fabiënne Raijmakers and Wrong is Right, placed second today with 71.441%. Luxembourg’s Téo Rouyr and D’Ultimo M secured third place with 68.919%.

Children Winner Schmieder Delighted
Schmieder was very pleased with her victory: “It’s very special to win here. The atmosphere in Lier is truly great. It gives an amazing feeling to enter this arena and be able to dance together with your horse.” She was more satisfied with her performance today than yesterday: “Yesterday I was a bit tense myself. Today I told myself to enjoy it more. My horse really carries me and says: just tell me what we’re going to do. He always shows so much calmness and composure,” said the rider, who has been partnered with Freispiel for about seven months. Her goal for this year is the European Children Championships.

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