{"id":27479,"date":"2016-06-09T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=27479"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:30:46","slug":"ludger-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2016\/06\/ludger-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludger Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a career that has included 19 medals at Olympics, European and World championships, including four gold at the Olympics, Ludger Beerbaum has added Chantilly to his victories for the first time in his career riding his wonderful grey mare, Chiara.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took inspiration from Daniel Deusser\u2019s round, especially on a distance where he went on five instead of six, which made the difference on my watch. I wanted to do exactly the same, and when I was at five, I was like shit, I can\u2019t make it so I had to do one more stride in the last instance. So I had only one solution left, turn shorter than him on the second last vertical and that\u2019s where I made the difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27482 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LudgarBeerbaum.jpg\" alt=\"Ludger Beerbaum on Chiara 222\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LudgarBeerbaum.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LudgarBeerbaum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LudgarBeerbaum-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ludger Beerbaum on Chiara \/ Photo:Stefano Grasso\/LGCT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chiara has only jumped two five stars Grand Prix this season: one in Doha where she won, and one in Antwerp where she was clear in the first round but with one pole down in the second. In short, over three Grand Prix, she wins two, and I\u2019m happy, like I\u2019m happy now to be second on the overall Longines Global Champions Tour rankings as I have only participated in 4 of the 7 legs that took place.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DanielDeusser.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Deusser on First Class van Eeckelghem\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DanielDeusser.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DanielDeusser-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DanielDeusser-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Daniel Deusser on First Class van Eeckelghem\/ Photo:Stefano Grasso\/LGCT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ludger has Chiara and Casello, winner of the Hamburg leg of the Longines circuit in line for Rio. Ludger dropped the hint a few months ago that he was considering retirement after the Games. Does this mean we won\u2019t see him in Chantilly anymore?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe\u2026\u201d he said with a mysterious smile. The owner, Madeleine Winter-Schulze, reassured the press: \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I have come to Chantilly, and I think I\u2019ve chosen the right year. It\u2019s more beautiful than what I was told. There is a real atmosphere here, and I want to come back again. So, don\u2019t worry, he will come back too!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a career that has included 19 medals at Olympics, European and World championships, including four gold at the Olympics, Ludger Beerbaum has added Chantilly to his victories for the first time in his career riding his wonderful grey mare, Chiara. \u201cI took inspiration from Daniel Deusser\u2019s round, especially on a distance where he went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27484,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479\/revisions\/27484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}