Germany Leading World Equestrian Games Dressage Team Standings After Day 1, Sweden 2nd, USA 3rd

TRYON, North Carolina, Sept. 12, 2018–With the big guns still to come, Germany took an early lead Wednesday in the World Equestrian Games team medals Grand Prix with Sweden in second place and the United States lying third. Elsewhere at the combined world championships of eight horse sports, a bizarre series of events triggered by International Equestrian Federation (FEI) officials sending some of the 130 endurance horses on different courses led to the event being canceled altogether.

An estimated 8,000 spectators turned out to watch the first day of dressage in which Jessica von Bredow-Werndl of Germany riding the 11-year-old Trakehner mare TSF Dalera BB that began Big Tour only six months ago was the highest scoring individual on 76.677 per cent, only the fifth international Grand Prix for the pair.

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Article written by: KENNETH J. BRADDICK