Germany won the penultimate leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping Europe Division 1 series at Hickstead, Great Britain this afternoon. But it is still uncertain whether the most formidable of Jumping nations will make the cut for the inaugural Final in Barcelona, Spain in September. With just one qualifying leg remaining, in Dublin, […]

Germany galloped back into the game when claiming the honours in the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ at Rotterdam, The Netherlands . In a tense cliff-hanger that went right down to the wire, it fell to Ludger Beerbaum to clinch it, and the man who has long been the linchpin of the German squad succeeded, but […]

Poor weather conditions during the Nations’ Cup at the CSIO St. Gallen, Switzerland, held May 30-June 2, led to the disqualification of the German show jumping team from the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup Final in Barcelona. Due to the weather, and concerns over footing, the Organization Committee and the chefs d’equipe decided to alter the […]

The key Chinese media always refer to Ludger Beerbaum as the “Father of the German equestrian sport”. Even if the German equestrian sport is actually quite a few years older than the successful sportsman and entrepreneur from Riesenbeck, Westphalia, this reverent title clearly underlines the fact that the role Beerbaum is primarily playing at the […]

The Irish produced the shock of the season when beating crack sides from Germany and France to win the seventh leg of the FEI Nations’ Cup™ 2012 series at Hickstead (GBR) this afternoon. Trailing at the bottom of the league table after an inconsistent run that included a miserable last-place finish in Falsterbo, Sweden just […]

Ludger Beerbaum claimed the honours for Germany today in the fifth leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League series on his home turf at Stuttgart.  Madeleine Winter-Schulze’s 10-year-old mare, Gotha, has been going from strength to strength in the hands of the five-time Olympian in recent months, and produced a superb […]

Germany did the double when winning both the last leg of the series, and the overall FEI Nations Cup™ 2011 title, at the thrilling finale in Rotterdam, The Netherlands this evening. Birthday boy, Ludger Beerbaum, was the hero of the day, but it was a desperate fight to the very end, with a strong challenge […]