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Isabell Werth: "Nothing is Worth More Than our Health"

She’s fun, focused, fabulous and sometimes a little formidable. The most medalled athlete in the history of equestrian sport, Germany’s Isabell Werth looked set to add yet another title to her very long list at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2020 Final in Las Vegas, USA before that was cancelled due to the pandemic.

“I try to take the good things out of all this”, Isabell said when we spoke recently (Saturday 18 April). “I have more time to concentrate on my young horses, more time for the family, for all the horses, for the whole stables, especially now that spring is here and there is so much to do”.

Like everyone else she’s had to adapt in order to keep everyone safe at home. “We have three generations living here on our farm (near Duisburg), and my parents are still really well and I hope we can keep the virus away. We try to go on like normal but keep a distance. At the beginning it was quite hard for my son (10-year-old Frederik) not to visit my parents, but now he’s a bit more used to it and so it’s fine”.

Please click here to read the rest of the article as it appears on the Eurodressage website.

Article written by Louise Parkes for the FEI

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