GERMANY’s Christian Ahlmann and the brilliant Taloubet Z cruised to victory in the fifth leg of the Longines FEI World Cup Western European League on home soil at the Stuttgart Masters in Germany last Sunday.

Forty horse and rider combinations started over Luc Musette’s track, and 19 of those made it through to the jump-off. In the race against the clock it was the 16-year-old stallion, guided by the world number one, who broke the beam ahead of the rest in an untouchable time of 42.85 seconds.