Horsesdaily News: Beerbaum Strikes Gold at the 2002 CHIO Aachen Grand Prix

Beerbaum Strikes Gold at the 2002 CHIO Aachen Grand Prix

Aachen, Germany, June 30 - In front of the eyes of CHIO Aachen's honored guest, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Ludger Beerbaum polished off a successful week of competition at the World Equestrian Festival - CHIO Aachen 2002, winning the Prize of Aachener und Münchener Versicherungen - The Grand Prix of Aachen, with the 11-year-old Hannoverian stallion, Goldfever 3 (by Grosso Z) owned by Germany's Chef d'Equipe, Madeleine Winter-Schulze.

It was a record-breaking week for CHIO Aachen with over 300,500 in attendance, as well as for Beerbaum whose Grand Prix victory was the third win of the week, earning him the Hans-Günter Winkler with the Halla-Challenge Trophy for the tournament's best rider. Together with Germany's Dressage Nadine Capellmann, and four-in hand Driving Champion Michael Freund, Beerbaum, like last year, were elected the public favorites by the readers of the Aachener Zeitung, making the traditional victory lap aboard Freund's carriage.

The same week Beerbaum was making new records, his beloved Ratina Z the now 20-year-old Hannoverian mare, gave birth to a foal, by Artos, the approved Belgian stallion of World Cup Show Jumping fame.