The Dutch Masters: Fry and Werth start in dressage World Cup
The FEI Dressage World Cup season is in full swing for the riders and The Dutch Masters can count on two big players in this series: Britain's Charlotte Fry and Germany's Isabell Werth. They will certainly give our Dutch trump card Dinja van Liere the fire.
Besides an appearance in The Dressage Masters on Thursday evening, the reigning world champion will start in the FEI Dressage World Cup Grand Prix presented by RS2 Dressage and the FEI Dressage World Cup Freestyle on Saturday afternoon. In 2022, the British rider was the youngest dressage rider ever to win the Freestyle title at a World Championships (Herning, Denmark). She was exactly 26 years and 180 days old at the time. The rider moved from England to the Van Olst Horses stables in Den Hout, Brabant, in 2014 and is trained by Danish international Anne van Olst. Charlotte started at The Dutch Masters for the first time in 2018 and considers it a home competition. "It's always nice to ride at The Dutch Masters on my 'home ground', also because the best riders in the world are here and the atmosphere in Den Bosch is great."
Isabell Werth has been a loyal participant at The Dutch Masters for years. She won the World Cup competition here for the first time in 2007 with Warum Nicht, in 2009 with Satchmo and in 2018 with Emilio 107. The 53-year-old 'Queen of Dressage' from Rheinberg has an incredible track record: 2 individual gold and 7 silver medals and 6 gold team medals at the Olympics, 7 individual gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medals and 5 gold team medals at World Championships and at European Championships she won 9 individual gold medals and 8 gold team medals.
Now she leads the standings in the World Cup, which she managed to win four times in previous years (2007, 2017, 2018 and 2019). An rider to be reckoned with.
Photos: TDM/Digishots
Besides an appearance in The Dressage Masters on Thursday evening, the reigning world champion will start in the FEI Dressage World Cup Grand Prix presented by RS2 Dressage and the FEI Dressage World Cup Freestyle on Saturday afternoon. In 2022, the British rider was the youngest dressage rider ever to win the Freestyle title at a World Championships (Herning, Denmark). She was exactly 26 years and 180 days old at the time. The rider moved from England to the Van Olst Horses stables in Den Hout, Brabant, in 2014 and is trained by Danish international Anne van Olst. Charlotte started at The Dutch Masters for the first time in 2018 and considers it a home competition. "It's always nice to ride at The Dutch Masters on my 'home ground', also because the best riders in the world are here and the atmosphere in Den Bosch is great."
Isabell Werth has been a loyal participant at The Dutch Masters for years. She won the World Cup competition here for the first time in 2007 with Warum Nicht, in 2009 with Satchmo and in 2018 with Emilio 107. The 53-year-old 'Queen of Dressage' from Rheinberg has an incredible track record: 2 individual gold and 7 silver medals and 6 gold team medals at the Olympics, 7 individual gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medals and 5 gold team medals at World Championships and at European Championships she won 9 individual gold medals and 8 gold team medals.
Now she leads the standings in the World Cup, which she managed to win four times in previous years (2007, 2017, 2018 and 2019). An rider to be reckoned with.
Photos: TDM/Digishots