{"id":27485,"date":"2016-06-09T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=27485"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:32:23","slug":"scandic-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2016\/06\/scandic-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandic Retired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patrik Kittel\u2019s stallion, Watermill Scandic has been retired, after winning the Swedish championships at the age of 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment was right,\u201d said Patrik. \u201cI wanted Scandic to go out as the champion he truly is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Together they claimed bronze at the European Championships in Rotterdam in 2011, were on the Swedish team at the London Olympics, won World Cup qualifying legs and this year finished fourth in the World Cup final in Gothenburg.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Swedish championships \u2014 where he scored 73.32% and 77.62% \u2014 was Scandic\u2019s last competition, a special retirement ceremony will be held for him in his home country at Falsterbo Horse Show (2-10 July).<\/p>\n<p>Patrik added: \u201cHe is such a unique, larger than life individual and I love him for that. He has, and will always be, his own person. Strong-willed, stubborn, cheeky, charismatic \u2014 my wife Lyndal would say we are two of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stallion has an amazing record. While simultaneously standing at stud, he has competed at international Grand Prix for over seven years, performing 99 FEI tests in that time.<\/p>\n<p>He often scored over 80%, with a career high of 83.42% at the 2011 Europeans, which earned him the individual bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Learn the fascinating story behind Scandic\u2019s breeding:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2012\/10\/breeding-philosophy-with-jan-greve\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrik Kittel\u2019s stallion, Watermill Scandic has been retired, after winning the Swedish championships at the age of 17. \u201cThe moment was right,\u201d said Patrik. \u201cI wanted Scandic to go out as the champion he truly is.\u201d Together they claimed bronze at the European Championships in Rotterdam in 2011, were on the Swedish team at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27486,"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-27485","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\/27485","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=27485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27487,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions\/27487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}