CDI debut for Louisdor-fifth Global Power in Fontainebleau

Evelyn Eger and the then eight-year-old Grey Flanell son Global Power started their 2025 show season in the small tour, including the Nuremberg Burg Cup qualifier in Hagen. They finished fifth in the final of the Louisdor Prize. In the middle of the season, the rider at Kasselmann Stables had apparently decided that Global Power would be better off in the Grand Prix arena. History proved her right.

After a second place in her first S*** performance in Isterberg, the next stop was the Louisdor Prize qualifier in Guxhagen, the last chance to get a ticket for Frankfurt. And lo and behold – one shot, one hit. In second place behind Katharina Hemmer and Special Gold PCH, they secured their ticket to the final in Frankfurt straight away, where Global Power finished fifth as the youngest horse in the competition. A huge success for the pair, who have known each other since Global Power collected his first ribbons in tests for young riding horses. Today was another milestone.

CDI3* Grand Prix in Fontainebleau

With 69.217 percent, Evelyn Eger and Global Power were narrowly beaten into second place behind the Spaniard José Antonio García Mena in the saddle on the twelve-year-old Hanoverian Quaterhall daughter Quatre-Quarts à l’Orange.

It was the fourth competition with piaffe and passage for Global Power, the second long Grand Prix. He showed remarkable confidence, accompanied by his long-time rider with sensitivity and the finest contact, always following the hand. The suppleness, the good contact and the naturalness and satisfaction with which Global Power marched across the arena today were inspiring.

Just how much talent this impressive black horse has, especially for the collected movements, can be seen in the pirouettes, among other things. He is still a little behind in the piaffe and then leans on his shoulder. But tact, diagonality and diligence – it’s all there. The passages are just as powerful and sublime as they are relaxed (if he doesn’t start in canter by mistake, as he did today after the collected walk). Overall, he could develop a little more forward impulsion. However, Eger didn’t ask him once during the test, but only asked as much as Global Power gave him. He never seemed overwhelmed, but always willing. Conclusion: great horse, great pair, great prospects.

And if the two of them hadn’t had the mishap when piaffing from a collected walk, they would probably have left the arena as winners.

Further impressions from Fontainebleau

The winning pair had only a few points more and showed a very obedient test, but the tight curb reins disturbed the contact and therefore the harmony.

Also close to the top position were France’s Pierre Volla and the Portuguese sport horse gelding Malcolm X de Massa. The black stallion has a Lusitano sire and a dam who comes from a Lusitano mare family but is descended from San Amour. In keeping with the talent of his ancestors, Malcolm X showed probably the most beautiful piaffe of the day, in which he really scored points – balanced, swinging, effortlessly active and excellently placed. Unfortunately, the contact was not as fine as here throughout the entire test. All in all, the two representatives of the hosts scored 69.195 percent, with both Kurt Christensen in M and Ulrike Nivelle in B seeing them in first place with over 70 percent each.

You can find all the results here.