Ludger Beerbaum won a title for Germany yesterday 20th Nov 2011 in the fifth round of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League series on his home terrain at Stuttgart. Madeleine Winter-Schulze’s 10-year-old mare, Gotha, was becoming stronger and stronger in the hands of the five-time champion of the Olympics for a ceratin period of time, and made an excellent jump-off round to win maximum points for the 48 year-old rider who won this title 18 years ago.
It was not an easy afternoon for the world’s top competitors and riders, with only six of the 39 beginning in the competition could pass the hard round track with 13 fences set by the designer Christa Jung. The German course designer made it hard for them from the first fence to the last and this difficulty is proven by the eight retirements during the course“It was not too technical but it was quite big - Christa did a good job,” says Beerbaum after the round. “There were mistakes at all the fences, except, I think, the first - it was selective".
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