She is pretty much picking straight up where she left off at the World Equestrian Games – right at the top. Laura Bechtolsheimer, born in Mainz, brought up in Great Britain and three times World Championship silver medal winner with her top horse Mistral Hojris, won the Grand Prix (the WIK company prize) with a confident 81.48 percent.
The smart blonde knows Hof Kasselmann like the back of her hand – even as a young girl she competed in Nations Cup tournaments in Hagen a.T.W.
Team colleague Carl Hester (Great Britain) took third place with Uthopia, and squeezing in between the two British team riders was a German rider from the World Championship bronze-medal team: Anabel Balkenhol (Münster) with the FN Young Horse Grand Prix winner 2009 – Dablino. The eleven year-old chestnut Hannoverien brought his rider 76.72 percent.
This means these three candidates are now favourites for the Meggle Prize – Grand Prix Special – on Sunday from 09.30.
Australian Hayley Beresford on Belissimo NRW won the Intermediaire I Freestyle with a score of 73.150 per cent with German Holga Finken on Divertimento 6 second on 70.700 per cent and Fie Christine Skarsoe on One-Night-Stand third on 70.550 per cent.