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Eventing’s top young horses ready for Le Lion d’Angers

Oct 15, 2015

The sport’s top 6- and 7-year-olds will take on the FEI World Breeding Eventing Championships at Le Lion d’Angers in France this week, including two U.S. competitors in Kelly Prather and Debbie Adams’ D.A. Duras and Katherine Coleman and Claudia Kirchfeld-Pauly’s Monte Classico.

Looking to the rest of the entry list, World No. 1 Michael Jung is returning to his first FEI competition since winning the European Championships last month at Blair Castle despite riding with a broken leg. He later revealed that he broke a piece off his tibia in his fall at Burghley with fischerRocana FST, requiring surgery.

Rocana herself is a Le Lion graduate, having won the 6-year-old championships in 2011 before going on to become a World Equestrian Games team gold and individual silver medalist and adding a Rolex Kentucky win to her long list of accolades. This year Michael has two Le Lion entries we’ll be watching closely.

His 7-year-old entry is Lennox 364, a Hanoverian gelding with an eye-popping amount of Thoroughbred blood in his pedigree. He’s by the Thoroughbred stallion Sunlight xx and out of the Heraldik xx mare Heathers Pride, whose damsire is Star Regent xx. 

Michael’s 6-year-old entry, fischerIncantas, is equally drool-worthy. A Holsteiner stallion that has two CIC* wins to his name this season, fischerIncantas is by the Thoroughbred stallion Ibisco xx and out of the Holsteiner mare Ressina, by Coriano. 

There are a number of exciting horses entered at Le Lion, including Lucinda Fredericks’ ride Little Britannia, a 7-year-old British Sport Horse mare by the Selle Francais stallion Jaguar Mail and out of the late great Headley Brittania, the Jumbo mare that won Burghley, Badminton and Rolex during her storied career. 

Source Eventing Nation