For the eighth year in a row, dressage legend Ulla Håkansson revealed who the two lucky riders were, that would be honored to receive the Ajax scholarship.
The scholarship is 200,000 per rider and will be used for training, explained Ulla Håkansson.

This year the number applicants were higher than ever before, and it was clear it was a quite tricky job for the jury consisting of Ulla himself, Kyra Kyrklund, Eva-Karin Oskarsson and Jan Brink to choose only two out of 48.

This year the scholarship went to Michelle Hagman from Torsås, now living in Germany, and Elin Aspnäs from Åhus. Both are young riders who already compete the Grand Prix at an international level – Michelle with her Rudis Memory and Elin with their horses Donna Romma and Christo.

The dressage veteran Isabell Werth, with her star El Santo NRW, scored at the WDM Grand Prix. Isabell Werth, who started as the last rider, knew she had to prove what it really takes to win to Patrik Kittel and Watermill Scandic, that were in the current lead with 74,660 procent.

After a fantastic ride, where the piaffs clearly were a highlight, it was no doubt that the German star had made it once again; Isabell Werth scored fantastic 75,213 procent and the gold was hers.

Second; Patrik Kittel and Watermill Scandic; third; Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfvén and Favourit.

Finally! This year it was premiere of para dressage at Falsterbo Horse Show.

Para dressage or dressage for riders with disabilities is a form of competition that is competed on various levels. In Level 1, the rider can choose either walk or walk and trot. In level 2, the major part of the program is done in walk but the parts of the program that is in trot are a little bit longer and more challenging. In Level 3 the program contains both walk, trot and canter and the program represents a standard of LC (L-Dressage). In Level 4 all gaits are ridden and it also includes movements such as shoulder in, travere and counter canter.

Liselotte Sharff Rose Hart, Denmark, with Priors Lady Rawage was a clear winner in this premiere; she rode a Level 1 program and received 70.500 percent.
Number two was Simon Åhlstad, Solna FK, with Piquet rode Level 3 and got 69,000%.

The FEI Nations Cup in Falsterbo became without doubt the most exciting competition of the times.  After two rounds were done and the 8 teams had had their 4 riders fighting for their nation; Great Britain, France and Sweden shared the exact same points.

This ment a jump-off between these three teams. Due to the rules of FEI Nations Cup only one rider will ride.
For this jump-off the riders that had done two clear rounds were chosen; William Funnell – Billy Angelo (GBR), Jens Fredricson – Lunatic (SWE) and  Jerome Hurel –  Ohm De Ponthual (FRA).
It was a thrill til the last rider, and then it stood clear thath the victory went to Sweden – thanks to Jens, who were fast and furious.

– It takes a ”lunatic” to ride Lunatic, Jens said with a foxy smile afterwords; -And I think I proved that, he laughed.

Minna Telde and Isac (e: Hip Hop) socred the highest points in today’s 7-year old championship on the fantastic scores of  75.921 procent, beofre number two, Norwegian Trude Hestengen and the stallion Tobajo Pik Disney.

This was the third time Minna Telde wins the this Championship in Falsterbo. A true winner of all measurements. Previous from Isac, she has scored gold with her GP star EMV Don Charly (2004) and Larina HÖM (2006).

In the CDI 3-Star Grand Prix, Danish rider Joachim Thomsen and his gelding Akeem Foldager ended with the great score of 74,872 procent.
This was 5 percent more than number two Mattias Jansson and Brisbane (e: Briar).

Simplicity rules!

After last year’s success with The Tour of Amateurs, we evaluated what improvements that can be done for this year’s show. So this year we have simplified things even more. Basically, the qualification rules are almost identical as last year. The difference is that all the applications and rider registrations will be done from Falsterbo’s web: www.falsterbohorseshow.com

The qualifications begin 1:st of March and from the day you have applied and payed, you can begin to register results.

Check out the full proposition on our webpage!

Falsterbo Horse Show has, during the last years, been opening up it´s doors to the social media doors and with the possibilities that comes with it. Connecting to our network and audience via YouTube, Facebook  Twitter has really been paying of.  Now we are nominated in category 23. FEI Group II – North-West Europe in the global competition Equestrian Social Media Awards. Vote for us!

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You can vote for us until 10th of February 2012.