EQUISTERIAN ISSUE 9

EQUESTRIAN ROUND-UP
In Memoriam: Lloyd Landkamer
(USA), 1955-2015
By Louise Parkes
German superstar,
Michael Jung,
steered Fischerincantas
to victory
in the 6-year-old division while
Great Britain’s Laura Collett
clinched the 7-year-old title with
Mr Bass at the FEI World Breeding
Federation Eventing Championships
for Young Horses 2015
at Le Lion d’Angers, France at the
weekend.
These Championships have
been staged annually since 1992,
and the 30th edition of the
French fixture at the lovely Haras
National at l‘Isle de Briand
once again highlighted new and
exciting talent in both age categories,
and attracted a total of
103 horses representing a wide
range of studbooks. The two new
champions were both Holsteiners,
while the KWPN and ISH
studbooks filled silver and bronze
Lloyd Landkamer (USA), FEI Dressage Steward and discipline
manager for Dressage and Para-Equestrian Dressage at the Alltech
FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 in Kentucky (USA), has died at
the age of 60. He passed away peacefully at his home, Brandywine
Farm in Minnesota on 25 September, after a long and courageous
battle against cancer.
Landkamer, who started his career as a show secretary before
going on to become a show manager and sport horse breeder,
became an FEI 2* Dressage Steward at the beginning of 2009 and
was promoted to 3* level in 2012.
He was Event Director at the North American Junior and Young
Rider Championships (NAJYRC), the United Stakes Equestrian
Federation (USEF) Festival of Champions, and USEF Young Horse
Championships, as well as working as a volunteer at numerous
events.
He was a member of the USEF Dressage Committee, and
member of the United States Dressage Federation (USDF) Executive
Board, and was named USDF Volunteer of the Year in 2002. As a
USEF and FEI official, he served as a USEF Steward, USEF Technical
Delegate and FEI Chief Dressage Steward.
Most recently Landkamer was show manager for the Adequan
Global Dressage Festival in Wellington (USA). He was the recipient
of the USDF Show Secretary of the Year, Manager of the Year, and
Volunteer of the Year. At the 2015 NAJYRC, Landkamer was awarded
the Howard B. Simpson High Five Trophy, awarded annually to
the volunteer who best embodies Simpson's spirit of volunteering.
Landkamer became an FEI Steward for the Dressage competitions
at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington a decade ago
and then became show manager when the schedule was expanded
into the 12-week Global Dressage Festival, including seven international
events.
Uruguayan
Endurance
horse tests
positive to
prohibited
substance
The FEI has imposed a provisional
suspension on a Uruguayan
Endurance rider whose horse has
tested positive for a prohibited
substance.
Samples taken at a CEI2* event
in Trinidad (URU) on 8 August
2015 from the horse LG Muneerah
(FEI ID 104TQ89/URU), ridden by
Fernanda Villar (URU) to win the
120-kilometre competition, have
returned positive for the banned
substance Guanabenz, a sedative
with analgesic effect.
The athlete has been provisionally
suspended from the day of
notification (29 September 2015).
Additionally the horse has been
provisionally suspended for two
months.
The athlete and the horse
owner/s have the opportunity for
a preliminary hearing before the
FEI Tribunal to request the lifting
of the provisional suspensions.
— insidethegames.biz
Collett, Jung take Young Horse Eventing gold at Le Lion
Laura Collett
in the 6-year-olds and the AA and
Trekehener registers did likewise
in the 7-year-old division. The
ISH Studbook claimed the overall
Studbook title with a score of
151 points ahead of the German
Holsteiner in second on 153 and
the Dutch KWPN a close third on
Michael Jung
153.2 when the results of both
age categories were analysed.
The Ground Jury for the
6-year-olds consisted of Great
Britain’s Sandy Philips, Pascal
Laurencon from France and South
Africa’s Lesley Mawhinney, and,
from the field of 34 starters, they
placed Germany’s Ingrid Klimke
and the grey Holsteiner mare
Weisse Duene (Clarimo/Esprit
V/Romino) in pole position on a
score of 38.6 after dressage.
Jung and Fischerincantas
(Ibisco/Ressina/Coriano) however
were just 0.5 points behind
in second place followed by the
Selle Francais gelding Vingt Vingt
(Rubins des Bruyeres SF/Chana
du Gwern SF/Robin des Pres),
ridden by Frenchman Stanislas
de Zuchowicz, in third on 44.1.
Dutch rider, Merel Blom, was
next in line with the KWPN The
Quizmaster (Albaran XX/Zarah
Maro/Casco) followed by Poland’s
Kamil Rajnert and the BRAND
mare, Libertina, in fifth, Sweden’s
Christoffer Forsberg and the Oldenburg
gelding, Quinn, in sixth
and the ISH gelding SRS Adventure,
ridden by Ireland’s Sophie
Richards, in seventh spot.
— insidethegames.biz
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The E.A. Equestrian ■ OCT-DEC-2015