HISTORY was made at the world breeding championships for young event horses at Le Lion d’Angers in western France last Sunday when Germany’s Anna Lena Schaaf became the first non-French rider to complete a championship double on the same horse who, also for the first time, was a mare, Lagona OLD.

Schaaf repeated the tactics which had proven so successful 12 months previously with her Oldenburg bay by completing on her winning dressage score (18.6 penalties) in the CCI3*-L for seven-year-olds. In fact, of the top 10 following the flat work phase, the German rider and her Lavagon mare, who was bred by Theodor Sporkmann out of Ile de Cartina (by Cartani 4), were the only ones to maintain their position to the end.