Today was the day: Totilas presented his new rider Matthias Rath to the world. Nobody asked him anything, but he did what he does best: move more powerful and elegant than any other horse ever.



The Germans were proud of this present that Paul Schockemöhle gave himself and the German nation, and rightfully so: they literally have gold in their hands.
The medals are not there yet, Matthias and Totilas will still have a lot of adjusting to do and we have to get used to them, but this is the pair to watch for the next years.



The Dutch must regroup, hope that Adelinde and Parzival can get even better and try to come back strong.

The good news of course is that the Dutch way of training, including rollkür are a non-issue now in Germany or more accurately: they have never been a problem! There has never really been a difference, there are just slightly different ways of reaching the same goal. We have all misunderstood this completely. Google translated all of this wrong, I guess. Paul Schockemöhle also said that the real experts never had a problem with these Dutch methods. Hello, Klaus Balkenhol, are you there? Klaus? Hello, Klaus? :-)