{"id":59971,"date":"2021-07-31T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=59971"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T03:12:14","slug":"meet-michael-jung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/07\/meet-michael-jung\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Michael Jung"},"content":{"rendered":"

THM asked Jan T\u00f6njes, who edits Germany\u2019s St Georg what makes Michael Jung so special\u2026<\/h1>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known him from the times when he wasn\u2019t Super Michi, but only an upcoming young rider with as much talent as guts, tons of it. And way back then he was always a man who wouldn\u2019t talk too much, but only focus on his next ride, be it a puissance, a 3* or a four-year-old in a stallion show.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Michael and the stallion Grafenstolz at an outdoor presentation<\/em><\/p>\n

The most amazing thing I ever did with Michael was on a stallion show at Birkhof \u00a0Stud (Jan is also a commentator at stallion shows \u2013 he is also a breeding expert) when he was riding Grafenstolz TSF, then the world champion of young eventers. His parents Brigitte\u00a0and Jochen came into the arena first with one of these small but high tables you can lean on while having a chat at a garden party. That table was put on the diagonal, some three strides out of the corner. They had a bottle of champagne on the table, and glasses in their hands: They were saluting each other \u2013 cheers!\u201d
\n\u201cMichael and the stallion turned on to the diagonal, jumped over his parents\u2019 hands with the glasses and then on the same diagonal rode some 11 (maybe only 9, but all well through) one tempis. The audience was completely silent because they obviously couldn\u2019t really believe what they had just seen.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read more about Michael Jung here:<\/p>\n

Michael Jung – is he the greatest ever?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n