Tokyo can come for the German dressage riders.
At the second Olympic sighting in Kronberg, the trio Isabell Werth (Rheinberg) with Bella Rose, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (Aubenhausen) with Dalera and Dorothee Schneider (Framersheim) proved with Showtime that team gold is not expected too much at the Olympics .
Evi Simeoni
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If everything goes well, all three will also fight for the individual medals in a promising position. The mare Bella Rose with Isabell Werth in the saddle demonstrated a breathtaking improvement in form compared to the German championships in Balve at the beginning of June, who won both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Special with brilliant performances - and despite a mistake in the two-man substitutions . The 17-year-old Bella Rose celebrated passage and piaffe as if it were child's play.
For the last piaffe in the special and the following transition, she received the maximum mark of 10 from all five judges, she won with 85.596 percentage points.
"I could cry with happiness," said the six-time Olympic champion.
A perfect start for special celebrations: Bella Rose's owner Madeleine Winter-Schulze, who has been the most important patron of German equestrian sport for decades, turns 80 this Monday.
Second place in the special, i.e. the task with which the Olympic team classification is decided, was taken by the German champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, also with a brilliant performance (84.766).
Dorothee Schneider came in third with Showtime (82.575).
The fourth of the Special, Helen Langehaneberg (Havixbeck), with the mare Annabelle is registered as a replacement pair.