Anna Lena Schaaf joins Felix Vogg's stable
Event rider Anna Lena Schaaf moves south
from Dominique Wehrmann 
Anna Lena Schaaf with Lagona. Photo: sportfotos-lafrentz.de Galloping on the mountain should soon be much less strenuous for eventing rider Anna Lena Schaaf than it has been so far in Warendorf. As reported by Buschreiter.de and reposted by Felix Vogg, the 24-year-old Schaaf, who originally comes from Voerde in the Rhineland, will be a rider in the stables of five-star winner Vogg. She already presented several of the Swiss rider’s horses last season.
Great talent
Anna Lena Schaaf is one of the most talented young riders in Germany. With the pony mare Pearl, she became double European champion in the U16 class. With the family-bred and self-trained mare Fairytale by Fidertanz, she seamlessly continued her success with the ponies in the junior camp, becoming double European junior champion. And so it went on. Schaaf collected medals among the young riders, including with the Danone mare Debby, a daughter of Fairytale. The crowning glory of her career with Fairyale, who was retired in 2017, was the bronze medal at the 2023 German Senior Championships in Luhmühlen behind her trainer Julia Krajewski and Christoph Wahler.
Instructor
It is not only Fairytale and Debby that bear witness to Schaaf’s qualities as a trainer. Her personal figurehead is probably the OS mare Lagona. Schaaf took over the Lavagon daughter directly from the breeder as a four-year-old and led her from one highlight to the next in the coming years, most notably the two World Championship titles in 2021 and 2022. In the 2021/22 seasons, the pair won seven international competitions in a row. They were placed up to CCI4*. Then came an irresistible offer from Ecuadorian rider Ronald Zabala and Schaaf and Lagona parted ways. Not much has been heard of the mare since then.
But it was Anna Lena Schaaf who once again led a horse bred by her family and grandfather Gerd Neukäter to victory at the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf in 2025: Barcley by Buster Moon.
Schaaf is now training horses for Felix Vogg at his facility not far from Geneva. Last year, she was already very successful in the two- and three-star classes with the now nine-year-old Irish horse Cooley Venture and the now eight-year-old Selle Français gelding Idem du Ladran.
