Luhmühlen may boast one of – if not the – toughest showjumping courses at the five-star level, but you’d never have guessed it to watch the top three in today’s finale. All three of our
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One year ago, the Sunday morning final horse inspection at Luhmühlen felt like a pretty fraught endeavour – the sort of thing you watch with a gentle but unrelenting clench of the bumcheeks. Today, no
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Just fifteen horses and riders remain in the hunt for the 2026 Longines Luhmühlen CCI5* title after an influential – and very, very warm – cross-country day shook up the 20-strong leaderboard. It’s clear that course
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There’s an international flair at the top of the leaderboard as we head into cross country day over at the German mid-season 5*, with three of the six nations represented taking up the podium placings
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It’s been a short but sweet two days of dressage in Luhmühlen’s CCI5*, and as we reach the end of Friday – and twenty tests in the books – it’s Emily King and the evergreen Valmy
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From the moment Hallie Coon first sat on the then-ten-year-old Kapriccio, she says, “it was weird – it was just like meeting your soulmate, as cheesy as that sounds.” The British-based US rider isn’t prone
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It’s a small but mighty field for the 2026 Longines Luhmühlen CCI5*, the final event at this level we’ll see before Defender Burghley later this summer. We’ve got quite a few first-timer horses and riders
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Since the rise of short-form video on social media, it often feels like we watch the sport in 30-second increments. At today’s CCI5* first horse inspection at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, we truly kind
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Our final CCI5* of this half of 2026 is on tap this weekend at Longines Luhmühlen, situated in the northern parts of Germany just to the south of Hamburg. We have a small-but-mighty CCI5* field
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This week’s Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials CCI5* field has suffered a major blow ahead of the start of competition tomorrow afternoon. 2025 champions Ros Canter and the thirteen-year-old KWPN Izilot DHI have withdrawn from the competition, in which they
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The next CCI5* on the docket for 2026 comes to us from Germany at Longines Luhmühlen, which has its own unique style and flavor and also features the CCI4*-S Meßmer Trophy German Championship each year.
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One FEI Yellow Warning Card was issued at Longines Luhmühlen in Germany this past weekend. Austrian Olympian Lea Siegl was handed down the penalty for “Abuse of Horse – Excessive use of whip, bit and/or
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Very nearly one year ago to the day, Ros Canter rode into the main arena at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials on her 2023 Pau champion Izilot DHI on as near to a sure thing
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Change is afoot in the top ten — and beyond — after the final horse inspection at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, held in front of the ground jury of Katrin Eichinger-Kniely, Merel Schurink, and
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Woe betide anybody who continues to repeat the tired opinion that Luhmühlen is a ‘soft’ CCI5*. Dimensionally? No, it’s not maxed out. Length-wise? It’s unlikely you’ll ever see a nearly thirteen minute course here. Terrain?
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We are devastated to bring you news of a horse death at Longines Luhmühlen’s CCI4*-s today following an incident on cross country. German rider Maj-Jonna Ziebell and Chiquita, a 13-year-old Polish mare, fell at the C
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Here we are at the halfway point of the season’s 5*s, on the best day – cross country day – and I’ll be with you right from the first “Gute fahrt” to the last. (Sorry
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Tomorrow’s cross-country course at the Longines Luhmühlen CCI5* has got everyone talking, with several riders reckoning the 11:08 optimum time will be near-on impossible to catch, even with just 28 numbered fences — and that
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Alliteration and repetition are the name of the game when discussions are had about the track at Luhmühlen. Twisty. Turny. Twists and turns. Piggy March elaborates: “Twisty, twisty, twisty all the way ‘til the end”.
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Yesterday’s first dressage day at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials was notable mostly for its harsh judging, with nobody across either the CCI4*-S or the feature CCI5* breaking into the 20s (and plenty, to their
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The eventing overlords giveth, and the eventing overlords taketh away: such is the feeling on day one of the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, anyway, where we were given so much – blazing sunshine, a sterling
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It’s time for another EN Form Guide, and this time we’ve got your passport to Germany for our next CCI5* of the season at Longines Luhmühlen. As we’ve done all season, we’ve populated this Luhmühlen
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There’s nothing, in our humble opinion, more restorative for the soul than a mid-season trip to the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials. It’s arguably the friendliest event in the world (upon arrival today, we were duly
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