Steffen Peters Ravel - Grand Prix Kür Aachen 2009

[km288]

I was stunned while watching this...just one word: AWSOME!!!

Does anybody knows the name of the instrumental part from "We can dance"?

I really like it!

[Kiathira]

von der Galopp pirouette in die Piaffe, das muss man erst mal hin kriegen :-) Mach ich jeden Morgen vor dem Frühstück!

[MsMira1306]

It looks great :)

[Lexthelime]

All time favorite dressage rider!

[horseluverlol]

Wow! He makes that look sooo easy. He looked awesome! So did the horse.(:

[10hintza]

got to see him give a clinic today and does he have one nice butt :)

[Dressageriderrobin]

he looks nice and loose!!!!!

[kellyponi]

can i use this clips in my videos ? :)

[Espostona]

...auch dieser reiter sollte sich mal den film "stimmen der pferde" ansehen !

[Rocky1350]

@Espostona ??? Warum?

[xxWolfofDarknessxx]

An amazing rider on an amazing horse. It doesn't get much better than that. :)

[WTP7]

It's amazing that top horses land toe first. What's more amazing is that top trainers, riders and judges don't know that it is incorrect.

[renus00]

Ganz wie der Vater,

einfach bombastisch!

Steffen Peters ist so genial und dieses Pferd sowieso :)

[NativeGirl1992]

Beautiful! I love them! great team! <3

[IsabelleK]

This ride was great, and the music ist wonderful - can someone tell me which is the music when he rides in?

[UltimateDQ]

@IsabelleK It is "When I Ruled The World" by Coldplay.

[gypsylover96]

@UltimateDQ no,its viva la vida. wrong name, same song.

[UltimateDQ]

@gypsylover96 Ya, I realized that shortly after I posted but couldn't be bothered to go back! Thanks!

[barbleberrey]

This is a gorgeous ride. Can see collected, medium and extended forms. Tail is a distraction. Beautiful tight corners. And one dances and has fun with them. Even the announcer got excited, and I found myself clapping at the end (I'm watching it on my computer, and have never clapped before)

[giselle6363]

FIX the darn video...it stops cobstantly. Or REMOVE it.

[walk4trot2canter3]

Steffen Peters mit Ravel! WOW! And I LOVE that British remix! What brillance putting this together!!! Can you imagine how Steffen felt training for this, KNOWING that he was preparing to win first place in Aachen for the USA???

[walk4trot2canter3]

@walk4trot2canter3  Oops, British, Canadian remix! It doesn't matter. I'm gaga when I see this video!

[Ginni58]

Great, so much better than Totilas,...

[Jacbriding]

Loving the floppy relaxed ears :)

[HKW1994]

What a lovely combination & routine

[Geriblue]

Das war die aller, aller, allerbeste Kür die ich jeh gesehen habe!

Das war einfach nur B.O.M.B.E !

[xXXTkiHtelXXxxx]

Omg! I wanna be like that one day :D

[avrillavigne1981]

at 6:09 he lost his stirrup

[DraftDressage]

I have audited a clinic with Steffen Peters and he is incredible, he is so kind to the horses and does not tolerate people using the spurs or curb rein too much. Everything with him was about suppleness and the horse going well, and not allowing people to just hold their horses and kick like this "false piaffe" people are mentioning. He believes in clear, correct training and fit and happy horses. Not only is he an amazing rider, he is also an outstanding clinician.

[KCashatt]

The piaffe is real close to false - how you tell is IF the croup rounds and comes under the wither point, the hind legs well underneath him. Sometimes it does -sometimes it doesn't. The horse does look real tired. His hands do move alot, the horse is bracey as its tail does ALOT of moving almost all the time. Classical dessage does not need to be redefined it stands alone as a perfect way of training free moving, non-resisting, beautiful horses that will STAY sound.

[karolakita1]

great horse.

great rider.

great music.

:D

[xuxuschatzi]

who comments ??? he is so funny!!!

[mallithegr8]

salinero is a gazillion times better than ravel

[avrillavigne1981]

do you know how anky trains her horses?

[Abwarmblood]

I think Ravel looks tired. But he is magnificent, very well trained and ridden. I wouldn't call it a false Piaffe, I'd call it an exhausted one. Easy for us to judge, huh.

[1horse1crazy1]

@Abwarmblood i agree he does look rather tired

[ewolfbalto]

However, if you look at Anky, Edward or even Isabell Werth, you will notice the curb is consistently at an angle greater than 45 degrees to the horses mouth. The curb puts pressure on the poll which causes the horse to flex vertically. This consistent over cranking of the curb causes the horse to over collect in the neck. A limited amount of curb, as SP does, is a highly classical practice, and shows that the rider is using the seat more for collection instead of the curb.

[ewolfbalto]

@aauvolleyball21 Actually Edward Gal did not train Ravel to I-1. He only got to ride Ravel when the horse was much older, he had several other riders train and break him. Also, just want to point something out that makes Steffen Peters a much better rider, note the curb bit. You will notice the curb is on a 45 degree or less angle with Ravel's jawline, thus he is not using the curb as much.

[aauvolleyball21]

Can't wait to see Ravel and Totillas compete against each other - it will be an awesome competition.

[ToPeVeNtErr]

where will they compete against eachother? What competition? I'd really like to see that too

[aauvolleyball21]

And FYI if you watch this video carefully, you will see that Ravels 4th vertebra is usually the highest point, not the poll, his changes are uneven - much more expressive one way than the other, the pirouettes are large and hopping behind and the horse is wringing his tail hard thru' the entire test . Still an awesome job, but come on - this is a European trained horse ridden by a European trained rider who now lives in California.

[ewolfbalto]

His poll is the highest point. The 4th vertebrae is actually very low in the neck compared to popular belief and thus in that particular position the poll is actually the highest point. As for his changes, they are a lot better than Totilas, he is extremely unbalanced in them. Steffen Peters has also been coached by Jessica Ransehousen, an American rider and trainer, since he came to the US. He is not exactly what I would call a European trained rider.

[aauvolleyball21]

I would say these 2 horses are a testament to the way EG trains horses. I get so tired of reading post after post criticizing some of the most brilliant riders in the world today by people who spend more time on the internet than in a saddle

[aauvolleyball21]

bettylion and silivasgold

Ravel was trained and competed through Intermediare, Lingh was trained and competed through GP by Edward Gal. Both of these horses were purchased by students of Stefan Peters, presumably with his input since he was always going to compete Ravel. Obviously SP has less of a problem (asan international rider and trainer) with the way these horses have been trained than the people posting on this site - are you ALL competing internationally and hiding behind aliases??

[bettylion]

I love Steffen Peters but I was underwhelmed by the musical arrangement. I know the music is supposed to be instrumental only but it was pretty lackluster elevator style. And too many transitions from different types of music.

Somebody get this guy a new music producer!! :P

[PrincessStardusting]

HORSE OF THE YEAR ! Congrats! What a horse....

[dmmcmjmkem]

amazing!! somebody buy me this horse!! =P

[DECORSTUD]

I dont know what the big fuss is about Totilas is gonna wack this horses arse!

[SilivasGold]

No, Ravel will win over Totilas EASILY, if the judges actually pay attention to the rules and standards of FEI dressage, and stop awarding obscenely high scores to rollkur-trained horses whose poll is not the highest point, and whose hind legs aren't remotely parallel with their front.......

[bettylion]

@SilivasGold

yeah!!!!

[RRhapsodylover]

@SilivasGold

YES!!! THANK YOU!!! I'm glad someone FINALLY noticed how lenient and careless the judges were! That horse SHOULD NOT have scored so high with his uneven movement and unsteady changes and, well, many other things...

[rae3m2011]

The first song is Viva La Vida by Coldplay.

The second song is Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones.

[dmmcmjmkem]

@rae3m2011 i thought the whole freestyle was coldplay?? well thats what he told us when he was over here for the forum?

[Riemol]

Kan iemand mij vertellen welke muziek na "we can dance" komt?

Can someone tell me which music he is using after "we can dance" ?

[cavreenactor]

They look sooo balanced he and Ravel are my FAVORITES!!! plus he doesn't do rolkur

[eventsid]

love this, what a pair.

I love that ravel is a lighter dressage horse-some of them now a days are so heavy looking!

[robinraylee1]

i'd like to send this horse a big bag of carrots!

[siseboy]

das ist wirklich mal wieder schönes dressurreiten.

ein lockeres pferd durch den rücken,

zufrieden. schaut man sich gerne an

wenn ich mir totilas angucke , spektakulär aber

das ist alles sehr fest und unter negativer spannung. vorne strommeln die soldaten und hinten spielt keine musik weil die inner mitte stecken bleibt

[tsteph2]

Great riding! I could watch these all day long. Does anyone know if there's any way to get hold of the music these riders use in their kurs? I know most will be made up by bands etc, but is there somewhere to start?

[bonanzaandhorsegirl]

i dont know if you follow horsegirltv:dressage but she actually just did a segment about music freestyles. its in podcast on itunes or her website

[artaxcondor]

a few words for melvinhcox -

Edward Gal made both of them Ravel and Totilas and Totilas father Gribaldi - pure Trakehner stallion sired by Castolany.... but( there is always but)

Ravel's blood test did show positive result of virus infection - one of those strictly controlled in USA. The virus lives only in semen so they cd not cover mares or freese semen (it did not kill virus)... for relocation to USA they had to castrate Ravel...

[melvinhcox]

I will always believe that gelding this great horse was a crime against nature! Ravel's owners - no matter how filthy rich they may be - would do well to take a lesson in true horsemanship from the owners of Moorlands Totilas.

[ponyroxit12]

he was in my town today teaching a clinic... I got a lesson from him!! SO awesome

[camperikaa]

En los cambios de mano a galope en un tranco.. que leches hace con la pierna tan atrasada antes de ordenarle que cambie?

Vaya birria..

El caballo no se aclara con este jinete..

[myprideandjoy529]

i know this is probably going to get a lot of negative feedback, but his ride kept bothering me for some reason... not because it is technically incorrect by any means. he's a brilliant rider, there's no questioning that. but, does anyone else see that there is a subtle lack of fluidity, especially in his transition work?

[bcbeaupied]

Really? At first, I thought it was a little odd, but it really grew on me. Are you thinking of the passage/piaffe transition?

[Keirajn]

i think hes trying to keep up with the music so it might look awkward..

[lassiesuca]

I must agree, I am not a fan of this type of modern riding and despite them claiming to be the basis of classical, I do not see it and I really think its changed. If you watch the Piaffe, it is not a true piaffe, as Philippe Karl would say, a false piaffe, this means the back feet don't actually come up as they should. His transition work looks almost a bit, rusty and tense, the transitions aren't great. Also I don't like the fact that his hands seem to move around quite a bit,which I dislike!

[cfaulconerdressage]

I would rather see his hands moving than perfectly still. If they are perfectly still, they are obviously not giving and are hard.

[UltimateDQ]

@lassiesuca I would love to see Philippe Karl do a test as good as this. Not just a piaffe, the whole test.

[bettylion]

Now THAT'S a dressage rider!

Living proof that kind, patient dressage riding can result in the greatest successes.

And what a piaffe! A true piaffe, with jump!

[simplysassy99]

just got back from a clinic with steffen in alberta canada. it was amazing!

[Cinder857]

I see a Ravel/Totilas showdown in our future.

[Kayleigh74]

Both are very good horses.. but for me SP and Ravel fit much better together.

[bcbeaupied]

I agree. Edward Gal is an amazing rider and Totilas is an amazing horse, but Steffen and Ravel fit perfectly.

[louisarichards]

OMGGGG! did anyone else notice that he lost his stirrup at 6:08 ?!?!?? i had to watch that part 3 times over to make sure! he is truely a god. <3

[equinelove4]

when u ride properly it shouldnt matter if u loose a stirrup, u ride through ur seat :)

[maikesponge]

ein fantastisches pferd und ein reiter der den sieg VERDIENT hat.

[shedreamsofhorses]

look at this horses ears in the one tempi's....

[jumpingSarah]

omg, you're right!! ^^ I didn't notice first :-D he's ugly!! xD

[GPonyyyy]

omg look at that guy at 4.30 next to ankys husband, he has possibly the worst hair and facial expression i have ever seen........lololol

[rudy5255]

fantastic!!!........esp!.....t­he "expression" of the horse!......a true horseman, makes any horse true!:)....all of steffen peters' horses look like that!!!:)

[pegasus1747]

isn't that Sjef?

[MeladyN1]

geniales pferd!!!!

[Gescheiterte]

Fantastisch!

[robespierrot1]

Thanks, I changed it, here it is a famous name and we spel it with 2 "e" 's

[kara2lucy]

@robespierrot1 we spell "spel" with two l's also.. :D (this is ment in the kindest possible way)

[dqwannab]

Thank you so much for posting this! It is fantastic. FYI - more people on YouTube will 'hit' on it if you spell his name correctly.