Germany’s Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and her Bella Donna turned in a million dollar performance on Sunday, claiming top honors and a first prize of $350,000 at the AIG Thermal $1 Million Grand Prix. The duo barely squeezed out the win, as none of the 40 starters managed fault-free tours on designer Conrad Homfeld’s two-round course. Michaels-Beerbaum […]
The Global Champions tour youthquake continued, with Philipp Weishaupt clinching his first Global Champions Tour Grand Prix win in Estoril, Portugal July 14. The 26-year-old German pulled off two brilliant clear rounds on Leoville 2, clocked an unbeatable jump-off time of 44.96 that his boss, Ludger Beerbaum, described as a triumph of “youth over age.” […]
France’s Olivier Guillon and Lord de Theize came out on top at the Global Champions Tour in Wiesbaden, Germany, on May 26, narrowly edging out Germany rider Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and Bella Donna 66, the horse she hopes to take to the Olympics. The two went head-to-head in a jump-off in the final speed test of […]
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum notched her first major victory aboard her new grand prix horse, Cantano, taking the blue in the $32,000 Suncast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic, March 17 at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach, FL. Michaels-Beerbaum―who was born and raised in Los Angeles and now rides for Germany―got the ride aboard the 12-year-old Holsteiner […]
After winning the Warsteiner Prize on July 13 – beating top international competition including her brother-in-law Ludger Beerbaum on Chaman and Laura Kraut on Teirra – Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum announced the retirement of the incomparable Shutterfly, now 18 and notching his 10th competition at the World Equestrian Festival CHIO at Aachen, Germany. “The victory in the […]
The HITS 2011 Dessert Circuit is one for the history books – qualifying West Coasters for the new $500,000 Diamond Mills Hunter Prix Final, offering jumper riders like Germany’s Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum the chance to rack up points for the $1 Million Pfizer Grand Prix and catapulting 18-year-old Lucy Davis into orbit as a superstar. “The […]
