The Horse Of A Lifetime: Isabell Werth & Gigolo Grand Prix Dressage Warm-Up Aachen

Isabell Werth is a legend.

Let’s take a look at the horse that put Isabell Werth on the map in dressage. Gigolo is the horse that vaulted her into the spotlight with numerous championship titles and an Olympic berth in Barcelona in1992. This grand prix dressage warm-up footage was filmed in Aachen at a time when the grand prix dressage warm-up was closed to the public. In a push for transparency, the warm-up was opened up to the public. Well, some of the public anyway.

Isabell Werth (born 21 July 1969 in Issum) is a German equestrian and world champion in dressage who competed in the Olympics five times (1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016) winning ten medals, six of them gold. She holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by any equestrian athlete. In 2009, she was suspended from all tournaments by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) for six months for horse doping.

Gigalo Horse Of  A Lifetime

Werth rode Gigolo, owned by Uwe Schulten-Baumer, her coach from 1986 until 2001.[1] On Gigolo, she won all her championships between 1992 and 2000, save for the 1999 European Championships in Arnheim, where she rode Anthony FRH. In 2006, she started riding Warum Nicht FRH at the international level and with him won the 2007 World Cup in Las Vegas. Warum Nicht retired in 2012.[2] Werth competed at the Olympic Games with Satchmo, who subsequently retired in November 2011. In 2010, Werth started riding El Santo at the international level until the horse was transferred in 2016 to Spanish rider José Antonio Garcia Mena.[3] In 2016, Werth secured the ride on Weihegold Old, with whom she won the team gold medal and a silver medal in the Individual Dressage at the Rio Olympics.

Isabell Werth worked alongside Bates Australia to develop the Isabell Dressage Saddle available in Bates and Wintec.