World Dressage Masters

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The World Dressage Masters – shortened WDM – is an international dressage series held since 2009. All events of the series are held as CDI 5*, the highest level of dressage events.

Dressage highly skilled form of riding performed in exhibition and competition

Dressage is a highly skilled form of riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an "art" sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined by the International Equestrian Federation, dressage is "the highest expression of horse training" where "horse and rider are expected to perform from memory a series of predetermined movements."

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Main sponsors of the WDM are the Axel Johnson Group, Exquis, the Moorland Stables (the former owners of Totilas), Moorland Investments and the Nürnberger Versicherungsgruppe.

Totilas dressage horse

Totilas, also known from 2006 to 2011 as Moorlands Totilas, and nicknamed "Toto", is a Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 17.1 hands high who was considered to be one of the most outstanding competitive dressage horses in the world, the first horse to score above 90 in dressage competition, and the former holder of the world record for the highest dressage score in Grand Prix Freestyle Dressage. Going into the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG), Moorlands Totilas and his rider, Edward Gal, had amassed multiple world-record scores in international competition, leading one American journalist to call them "rock stars in the horse world". Totilas was retired from competition in August 2015.

History and stations of the series

In the mid of June 2008, at Jumping international de Cannes, a new dressage series was advertised. Starting in 2009 the first World Dressage Masters season was organized. Planned stations in 2009 were Wellington, Florida, Salzburg, Munich and Hickstead. [1] The horse show in Salzburg was cancelled because of construction works at the Residenzplatz and financing problems. As alternate station of the series Cannes was chosen. [2] [3]

Wellington, Florida Village in Florida

Wellington is a village just west of West Palm Beach in central Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. As of 2014, the city had a population of 61,485 according to the U.S. Census Bureau, making it the most populous village in the state. It is the fifth largest municipality in Palm Beach County by population. Wellington is part of the Miami metropolitan area. Wellington was named Money Magazine's "Top 100" Best Places to Live in 2010. Although Wellington is not a village under any standard definition of the term village in the US, it is referred to officially as the "Village of Wellington". The area is also home to The Mall at Wellington Green and a shopping plaza surrounding it.

Salzburg Place in Austria

Salzburg, literally "salt castle", is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Federal State of Salzburg.

Munich Place in Bavaria, Germany

Munich is the capital and most populous city of the second most populous German federal state of Bavaria, and, with a population of around 1.5 million, it is the third-largest city of Germany after Berlin and Hamburg, as well as the 12th-largest city in the European Union. The city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps, it is the seat of the Bavarian administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the most densely populated municipality in Germany. Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialect area, after the Austrian capital of Vienna.

At the 2009/2010 series final in Munich the Falsterbo Horse Show was announced as new WDM station. [4]

At the beginning of 2011 the US-American WDM station changed from Wellington, Florida to the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center, also in the Palm Beach County. In 2011 the French WDM station in Cannes was cancelled.

The Jim Brandon Equestrian Center is a 111-acre world class equestrian showplace operated by the Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department in West Palm Beach, Florida. The facility is available for rent by application and reservation only. It hosts several local and national horse and dog shows. Built in 2005, it consists of: one covered arena; five additional rings; vendor areas; two barns – 128 total permanent lighted, matted stalls with sliding doors ; fire sprinkler system; area for temporary barns; covered manure receptacles; covered wash racks; lunge ring; concession building; announcer building; show management office ; restroom buildings; ample horse trailer parking; WiFi. In 2007, the indoor arena was home to the short-lived Palm Beach Waves indoor football team.

So the current World Dressage Masters stations are:

Skanör med Falsterbo Place in Scania, Sweden

Skanör med Falsterbo is a statistical locality, situated in Vellinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 6,937 inhabitants in 2010. It consists of the two old towns of Skanör and Falsterbo which have grown together, but are still regarded as different communities by locals. The preposition med means with. Thanks to its southerly and maritime position, the locality is the mildest in Sweden, with winter lows barely averaging frosts.

All England Jumping Course at Hickstead

The All England Jumping Course at Hickstead, known widely as Hickstead, is an equestrian sport centre in West Sussex, England, principally known for its showjumping activities, where it hosts two international level competitions, the British Jumping Derby and the Longines Royal International Horse Show. The course was the first permanent showground for equestrian sport in the country, opening in 1960.

As concept of the series the focus on top sport, mediability and internationalization of the sport was announced. [1] Each station of the WDM is endowed with 100,000 €. These are distributed as follows:

All competitors starts first in the Grand Prix de Dressage. The eight best-placed competitors of the Grand Prix de Dressage are allowed to start in the A-Final (the Grand Prix Freestyle). It some of best-placed competitors want to start in the B-Final, the same number of competitors, who are placed after the best-placed competitors, move up in the A-Final.

Rider ranking

One year after the advertising of the series a new partnership was announced. The Nürnberger Versicherungsgruppe, a German insurance group, become a new main sponsors of the World Dressage Masters. At the same time the Nürnberger WDM rider ranking was started at 2010 Jumping International de Cannes. The final of the rider ranking is always the Munich WDM event. [5]

The WDM rider ranking is endowed with 25,000 €. The ranking based on the FEI-dressage world ranking system. The world ranking points of the Grand Prix, Grand Prix Spécial and of the Grand Prix Freestyle multiplied by a factor, gives the rider ranking points. [6]

Final rankings of the former years

season winner second placed third placed
2009/2010 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Edward Gal
2910 points 		Flag of the Netherlands.svg Adelinde Cornelissen
2550 points 		Flag of Germany.svg Isabell Werth
2190 points
2010/2011 [7] Flag of Germany.svg Anja Plönzke
2965,5 points 		Flag of Sweden.svg Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven
2565 points 		Flag of Poland.svg Michal Rapcewicz
2160 points
2011/2012 Flag of Sweden.svg Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven
2670 points		 Flag of Germany.svg Anja Plönzke
2610 points		 Flag of Sweden.svg Patrik Kittel
2025 points
2012/2013 [8] Flag of Sweden.svg Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven
2133 points		 Flag of Sweden.svg Patrik Kittel
2078 points 		Flag of Germany.svg Isabell Werth
1574 points
2013/2014 [9] Flag of Germany.svg Ulla Salzgeber
2079 points 		Flag of Sweden.svg Patrik Kittel
2043 points		 Flag of Sweden.svg Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven
1803 points

Media

From the 2009/2010 rider ranking final in Munich up to end of 2010 the German television channel Sport1 broadcast each Grand Prix Freestyle of the series. The broadcast take place at one of the next Saturdays after the events. The German IPTV-channel ClipMyHorse had broadcast in this time most of the WDM events live and had archived them.

Since beginning of 2011 Eurosport is the Global Media Partner of the World Dressage Masters. Eurosport broadcast the Grand Prix Freestyle of the WDM events delayed as part of the Wednesday selection at Wednesday evenings. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 400,000 € Exquis World Dressage Masters Ready for Take-Off in 2009, eurodressage.com, October 17, 2008
  2. ↑ CDI Salzburg Pulls Out of 2009 World Dressage Masters' Series, eurodressage.com, February 17, 2009
  3. ↑ World Dressage Masters include CDI Cannes, eurodressage.com, April 12, 2009
  4. ↑ Falsterbo Horse Show to become fifth Exquis World Dressage Masters Competition, May 15, 2010 (English / Swedish)
  5. ↑ Nürnberger fördert neue Exquis WDM Reihe, www.reiterpost.de (German)
  6. ↑ rules of the Nürnberger WDM rider ranking
  7. ↑ Endergebnis WDM Rider Ranking 2010/11
  8. ↑ Endergebnis WDM Rider Ranking 2012/13
  9. ↑ Endergebnis WDM Rider Ranking 2013/14
  10. ↑ World Dressage Masters auf Eurosport, St. Georg, March 9, 2011 (German)
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