<strong>2014</strong> WDM GUIDE Dear dressage friends <strong>2014</strong> promises to be a special equestrian year. Not only because the <strong>World</strong> Equestrian Games this summer in Normandy, France, but also for WDM entering its sixh consecutive season. Together with our team, sponsors and show organizers, we are able to offer another exciting season of top level dressage. This season we will start with a new show location on our calendar in the Côte d’Azur, Vidauban. Mrs. Bernadette Brune will host our WDM CDI five-star event exactly one week after the CDIO three-star that she is organizing for the second time this year. To get to know Mrs. Bernadette Brune and her show a bit better an interview with her is included in this guide. events in Munich, the German dressage sport in general and what to expect during this year’s fifth show. In our guide you will find many other interesting features. Not only our yearly guide and our website have become valuable information sources on WDM’s vision towards dressage, but also social media is becoming more and more a valuable asset for us to inform all dressage passionates on our activities and events. After each event we see more and more followers on our Facebook page and on Twitter. That is the main reason why WDM decided to introduce the WDM App and WDM Live (livestream). This way you can enjoy WDM whenever and wherever you are. After Viduaban, the next WDM event will be in Munich, Germany, this year at the end of May, followed by our show in Falsterbo, Sweden, in July. Munich will celebrate its sixth year anniversary hosting a WDM show. We expect again a lot of top riders to compete at our shows in preparation for the WEG. Munich will again be the final of the Nürnberger WDM Rider Ranking. Again we will finish this WDM dressage year in Mechelen, Belgium, during the Christmas Holiday season. This is the third show in Mechelen already. In these last five years we ware able to experience many highlights during our events. <strong>World</strong> records were beaten, 80 per cent scores became almost ‘standard’ during our Freestyle tests. In this <strong>2014</strong> edition of our WDM guide, we will present you our Hall of Fame of WDM victories during all WDM events, since our pilot event in Cannes, France, 2008. Mr. Hans-Peter Schmidt of Nürnberger Versicherungsgruppe will look back with Mrs. Monica Theodurescu at four WDM This year, our WDM events will again be broadcasted by Eurosport, as our global media partner, during their Wednesday selection. And even more, as of this year, all WDM tests will be available on ‘live stream’, allowing our followers to participate and to enjoy our high level events from anywhere in the world. WDM was, is, and will be about innovation and cooperation in dressage. We are ready for another season and we hope you will be there to enjoy it with us! We at WDM whish you a lot of pleasure in reading our <strong>2014</strong> WDM guide and promise that we will serve you this year with the top of dressage shows. A special thanks to our sponsors and show organisers who make the WDM shows possible. Without their continuing support WDM cannot exist. On behalf of WDM Management Anthony M. Kies CEO <strong>World</strong> <strong>Dressage</strong> <strong>Masters</strong>
Anthony M. Kies CEO <strong>World</strong> <strong>Dressage</strong> <strong>Masters</strong>