The example of Laura Klaphake shows how very equestrian of the owners of their horses. Through the sale of her Top horse Klaphakes athletic career gets a Dent. She now stands in front of a rebuild.
Former dream couple: Four years Laura Klaphake rode successfully on “Catch me if you can”
Imagine you’re a world-class cyclist, you are allowed to but only on a Holland wheel compete. Or we will take away from you as a formula 1 driver your car and puts you in a VW beetle. While most other athletes don’t have to worry about it, that time is not the best possible piece of sports equipment might be available, is that many of the riders differently. Because the horses that you ride, not rule them self, but stud owners, breeders, or groups of investors. Want to see your animals, although victories, many of them are also interested in selling them eventually for a profit.
Ehning: “It was clear that is sold”
Germany’s Top Rider Laura because Klaphake since the beginning of the year without a Top horse, because the owner, Paul Schockemöhle Mare your the Exception of “Catch me if you can” – as is rumored, for a two-digit million amount – in the Czech entrepreneur Petr Kellner has sold. Waiter is a Multi-billionaire, according to Forbes, the richest man in the Czech Republic, and he supports and encourages his daughter Anna Kellnerova, who is also an ambitious rider. Klaphakes the second-best horse, “Silverstone” had bought a waiter a year earlier from Schockemöhle, allegedly, also for a two-digit million amount.
Marcus Ehning has a pragmatic view on the situation in the horse sport
For Germany’s top rider, Marcus Ehning, the normal processes are. The market and the prices for the top horses, so Ehning, would have developed in the past years: “There’s always more good horses and more good riders from different Nations. The demand is very high.” However, the riders are only in rare cases, even the buyer of one of the Top horses. “Most riders can’t afford it.”
Also Ehnings three best tournament horses “Pret a Tout”, “- bred stallion cornado” and “Comme il faut” does not belong to him. The 44-Year-old has already experienced several times in his career that his Top horses have been sold, but pragmatic: “I have been in the to sell when it came to so much money,” he says in a DW interview and “Catch me if you can”-owner Schockemöhle, almost a little protection: “Paul Schockemöhle would have been able to sell the Mare even earlier,” said Ehning, the last year prize at the CHIO Klaphakes the Nations in Aachen have won and the team took bronze at the world Championships in Tryon. “He has given Laura the opportunity to develop the horse. It was clear, however, that it will sooner or later be sold.”
Downgrading from the Olympic squad
For Laura Klaphake to the loss of the “Catch me if you can” means not despite a kink in your career, which was very good. On “Catch me”, as she called her horse lovingly, she developed to the European and world championship Rider for Germany, the price was for two years a permanent member of the German Nations team and celebrated, not least in the team competition in Aachen last summer, an emotional success.
Emotionally, she is now understandably, when it comes to her former horse. With the DW Klaphake don’t want to talk about the loss of the “Catch me”, too deep the wound is. “That was pretty hard for me”, had the 25-Year-old previously to the magazine “Reiter Revue” voiced by: “‘Silverstone’ and now ‘Catch me’. This makes me incredibly sad.”
Spring REIT believes national coach, Otto Becker, Laura Klaphake returns to the world top
Place in the national squad Klaphake rides now, first of all, only in the perspective squad. “We are set to performance. After the horse was sold, and they had no equivalent to the horse, it was the logical consequence,” explains horse jumping national coach, Otto Becker, the downgrade compared to the DW and analyzed the Situation of his protege: “Laura must now build new horses. She has a couple of very promising horses, but not, of course, the experience at this level and have to prove themselves first.” This, says Becker, is a process of months or even several years, could take: “You have to have the luck to find the right horses, and it’s a long way to bring you to the top. This path must go to Laura now.”
Three good news
The first good news from the point of view of Laura Klaphake: six of the current horses she rides and the ten-year-old “Bantou Balou” in the German perspective squad, represent a significantly better “sports material” than the Holland-wheel, the VW beetle, the extreme input examples.
New Dream Couple? Laura Klaphake to “Bantou Balou”
The second good news: With Otto Becker has a national coach at your side who appreciates their qualities: “she is a good Rider, also young, motivated and ambitious,” says Becker. “I am convinced that we will see you for more years to come in the Top Sport.”
And finally, the third, and perhaps the best news is that While all of their competition horses again Paul Schockemöhle, but has to sell the Rider in the future, more say when it comes to the question: or keep it? Confirmed her father, Joseph Klaphake to the DW: “We hope that Laura’s young horses develop positive and one represents them as a potential championship horse. For this case, we have found a common control, so that such a horse can also be for Laura.” Thus, the Chance that Laura Klaphake leads to again a horse to the top, it is allowed to ride, but then continue.