It is one of the most important and most beautiful horse shows in the Netherlands - say riders and visitors. Show jumping and dressage riders can collect valuable points in their respective FEI World Cups. And visitors get very close.
Anita van Os is one of countless FEI stewards worldwide. After one of her controls in 2019 at the European Dressage Championships in Rotterdam, Charlotte Dujardin was eliminated from the tournament. The silver medal for Great Britain is gone. Both met for the first time in Amsterdam 2020.
Horses are strong. They have a whole horsepower of strength. With "horsepower", however, one immediately thinks about how powerful a car is. And that has to do with the inventor James Watt. He died in 1819, exactly 200 years ago.
In the USA on 13 December is all about horses. None other than the American Congress declared the day National Day of the Horse. And why? It’s a day to remember the economic, historic and cultural contributions that horses have made.
They have four horses in front of the carriage and drive in breakneck speed. Not outside in the field, but in a hall. The World Cup is the highlight for ten of the best four-in-hand drivers in the world. For the first time: The German Mareike Harm.
