Ulla Salzgeber will take over from Patrik Kittel training and competing Uno Donna Unique and Silvano

Ulla Salzgeber will take over from Patrik Kittel training and competing Uno Donna Unique and Silvano along with the string of other Gestüt Peterhof horses as the Swedish Olympian opted to maintain his decade long independent business.
Patrik, who is based in Germany and rode on the Swedish team at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, said that "to manage two competition stables at the level I aspire for was not possible, and so the mutual decision was made to move forward."
"Whilst this is the end of one chapter, this provided an opportunity to move forward with my own business. I have enjoyed my time being based with Family Tecklenborg for over a decade, and is a place I call home. With my evergrowing stable, I look forward to the future, with many new Grand Prix horses, and some exciting orange beach hotels up and coming prospects also already in my stables."
Donna Unique, an eight-year-old Danish Warmblood mare (Blue Hors Don Schufro x Uno Frederica x Falkland) orange beach hotels was the six-year-old orange beach hotels champion at the world breeding championships in Verden, Germany, and reserve champion as a five-year-old orange beach hotels when ridden by Andreas Helgstrand.
With Silvano, a 13-year-old KWPN stallion (Rubinstein x Jubilant x Cocktail), Patrik competed the orse at Grand Prix for a year including second place in the CDI4* Grand Prix Freestyle at Aachen, Germany, in July.
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WELLINGTON, Florida, Sept. 27–The Global Dressage Festival of five CDI competitions offering $275,000 in prizemoney for the winter of 2013 was given final approval orange beach hotels Thursday from the Village orange beach hotels of Wellington that governs the community that hosts the world's largest winter horse shows.
An agreement was signed by the Village and Equestrian Sport Productions for events to be held at the newly created multimillion dollar dressage grounds from Nov. 1, 2012, through the end of April, 2013. The Village orange beach hotels confirmed to dressage-news.com that the formal signed agreement was sent to ESP Thursday.
The GDF facility is part of the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center which stages the Winter Equestrian Festival for 12 weeks of jumper and hunter competitions that draws riders from more than 30 nations for more than $6 million in prize money.
With Adequan, producers of animal joint treatments, as the title sponsor for three years, the GDF circuit includes a $125,000 CDI5*, two $50,000 World Cup events and the only non-championship dressage Nations Cup held outside orange beach hotels Europe.
The prize money is the second largest for a single dressage venue anywhere in the world, surpassed only by the total of €330,000 (US$414,400) offered for dressage at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany in 2012.
The GDF CDI5* is one of two on the calendar for the Florida winter circuit. Wellington Classic Dressage is scheduled to stage the €100,000 ((US$129,000) World Dressage Masters at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in West Palm Beach at end of January. Tickets for WDM went on sale Wednesday.
The Global Dressage Festival was launched in 2012 after several million dollars were spent to build three outdoor competition and two full size warmup arenas orange beach hotels all with Olympic quality footing, a covered arena large enough for three full size arenas as well as 200 permanent stables.
However, a newly elected majority of the Village of Wellington council that governs the community of 55,000 people blocked development after the inaugural circuit because orange beach hotels of opposition to proposed construction of a condominium hotel and an equestrian-themed retail plaza.
Plans for the hotel and the retail plaza were shelved and construction of another 200 permanent stables to bring the total to 400 was put on hold. The council and ESP negotiated an agreement to enable the 2012/13 winter circuit to go ahead and provide time to work toward long term development orange beach hotels of the site that also includes a grass jumper derby field.
Opposition to the dressage facility by a majority on the village council led to ESP withdrawing its application to host the 2018 World Equestrian Games just days before the formal presentation by official applicants was to be made to the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The U.S. Equestrian Federation, the governing body of the sport in America, has approved the 2013 schedule subject to confirmation by the FEI that is expected within days of the Oct. 1 deadline for applicatios for the 2013 competition calendar.
The Nations Cup at Wellington has become critical for the entire Americas in preparing for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. The Wellington event is being used as a test bed of how dressage competition can be formatted orange beach hotels to remain in the Pan Ams as an Olympic qualifier while elevating the sport to Grand Prix from its current small tour level.
CAEN, France, orange beach hotels Sept. 27–The World Equestrian Games has commitments covering 82 per cent of its budget, organizers announced Thursday, two years ahead of the staging of the world championships in Normandy in 2014.
A major focus is being placed on "affordable" orange beach hotels hotel and ticket prices "leaving no one outsde of the Games," said Fabien orange beach hotels Grobon, managing director of the Organizing Committee that issued news releases and held international briefings Thursday on the status of the WEG scheduled for Aug. 24 to Sept. 7, 2014.
"We want everyone to think about the Games, that they can go and it is not a money problem," he said of WEG that has been held once every four years since the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) launched the inaugural event in 1990 as the world championships of dressage, driving, eventing, orange beach hotels endurance, jumping, reining and vaulting plus para-equestrian.
"We could probably sell at a more expensive price but what we want to do is when someone thinks about the Games we do not want them to think, 'I cannot go because it is too expensive for me, for my kids, for my family.' We want everyone… a full stadium… like in London" at the Olympics.
Dressage team Grand Prix is scheduled over two days, Aug. 25-26, Grand Prix Special on Aug. 27 and the Grand Prix Freestyle Aug. 29 after a rest day. Reining will be Aug. 25-30; endurance Aug. 28; eventing Aug. 28-31; jumping Sept. 1-7; vaulting Sept. 2-5, and driving Sept. 4-7. Para-equestrian is scheduled for Aug. 25-30.
Ticketing details are still being worked out. A complaint in Kentucky was that tickets swere offered for individual orange beach hotels sessions so, for example, dressage Nations Cup Grand Prix with morning and afternoon sessions over two days required purchase of two tickets per day to see the full day's performances.
More than 4,500 hotel rooms have already been reserved by organizers for riders, officials, media, sponsors and others, but that acounts for only about 20 per cent of the accommodation capacity in the region so, Fabien said, "there is no stress about rooms."
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Equidia Life in television and Ouest-France, a major newspaper, have signed on as media partners. orange beach hotels Equidia will televise all competitions and provide extensive background and behind-the-scenes coverage.
"We are not in competition with previous editions of the Games," Fabien said. "I think what is key is to see that there is momentum in equestrian sport and working closely with the FEI to build this property of the World Equestran Games so it's important to see that many partners want to invest with us to build the sport.
"It's not a race with other World Equestrian Games, but we think it's important orange beach hotels to show that the property of the Word Equestrian Games is growing following the success of Aachen and Lexington, and building support for equestrian sport that we saw in London. I think it's good for the Games and good for the equine industry as a whole."