Happy Birthday to Lene Nissen-Lembke – celebrating 70 years today! Lene Nissen-Lembke from Sweden was five times German Champion for amazons (she lived in Holstein for many years with her husband Jasper Nissen), winning on Cottage Incident in 1971, on Onassis in 1973, Mowgli in 1977, 1978 and 1980. She was also a derby specialist [...]
Happy Birthday to Jana Wannius!
David Broome was only 20 years old in 1960 when he won Olympic individual bronze medal in Rome on Sunsalve. The same year he also won the Dublin Grand Prix and King George V Gold Cup.
Hugo Miguel Arrambide (* September 25, 1927, † April 25, 1985) was one of Argentina’s top show jumping riders. His best horses were Chimbote, Camalote, Ministerioand Mio-Mio. He won Argentina’s National Championship in 1965 and 1966 on the temperamental Chimbote, in 1972 and 1973 on Camalote. Hugo Arrambide was also a very popular regular participant on the big classic European show jumping arenas [...]
Remembering the birthday of Gerd Wiltfang (27 april 1946 – 1 July 1997). Here he is on Roman.
Johan Heins in photo from 1980 – when 33 years old. Dutch rider Johan Heins began his career as pupil and rider at the Alwin Schockemöhle stable. Later Heins worked with Leon Melchior. On Seven Valleys Heins won the gold medal at the European Championships both in the individual and the team competition in Vienna 1977. At World Championships [...]
Carol Hofman from USA jumping on Out Late at the CHIO Rotterdam 1968.
Geoff Billington on It’s Otto in the World Cup 1996 in Gothenburg.
The Schockemöhle brothers.
From 1996 – Franke Sloothaak on Corrado in the World Cup in Gothenburg.
