Quantaz just kept dancing after the award ceremony, somehow he didn't want to leave the square.

"He thought he was really great," said Isabell Werth, who won the Great Dressage Prize in Aachen with the eleven-year-old stallion - for the 14th time in her remarkable career.

"That," said Isabell Werth with relief after the award ceremony, "was exactly the right time."

The 52-year-old had changeable times when she took to the arena on Sunday morning in bright sunshine with the dynamic Quantaz. The defeats against Jessica von Bredow-Werndl at the Olympics in Tokyo and at the European Championships in Hagen did not leave Werth without a trace. All the greater was their joy after the 88.335 percentage points in the freestyle: "I hoped that Quantaz would play to its potential today, and he did it."

Indeed, the dark brown stallion showed what he can do. Precise piaffes, powerful gallops, elegant traversals as well as exact single and double changes, among other things to the sounds of Bohemian Rhapsody. "He wanted to present himself today," said Werth: "I'm very proud of him." After saying goodbye to her previous parade horses Bella Rose and Weihegold, Quantaz is "definitely number one in the stable" in the future.

Isabell Werth's performance on Sunday in Aachen was a strong signal to the competition - not least to those in our own camp.

The duel between Werth and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl raises dressage to a new level, even at the World Championships in Herning in August 2022, the title fight could be a duel between these two.

"The World Cup is coming very soon," said national coach Monica Theodorescu, who is also very welcome to the competition from abroad: "The more, the better for our sport."

German team wins Nations Cup

The German team supervised by Theodorescu also won the Nations Cup in Aachen.

Werth with Quantaz, von Bredow-Werndl with Ferdinand, Frederic Wandres with Duke of Britain and debutante Carina Scholz with Tarantino relegated the Netherlands and Great Britain to their places.

Two of the currently greatest talents rode in these two teams, and they are sure to make a name for themselves in the coming years: Dinja van Liere with Hermes and Charlotte Fry with Dark Legend laid a golden trail in Aachen into the future.