{"id":2729,"date":"2012-06-26T14:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chesterweber.com\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2016-11-02T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:34:16","slug":"mr-dressage-is-back-chester-weber-begins-european-tour-with-success-at-2012-cai-lahden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/mr-dressage-is-back-chester-weber-begins-european-tour-with-success-at-2012-cai-lahden\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMr. Dressage\u201d Is Back: Chester Weber Begins European Tour With Success at 2012 CAI L\u00e4hden"},"content":{"rendered":"
L\u00e4hden, Germany (June 26, 2012) \u2013 American Combined Driver Chester Weber kicked off his summer European tour in style, proving that he truly is \u201cMr. Dressage\u201d and that Team Weber-Clark has the ability to take Europe by storm. Weber, the nine-time USEF National Four-In-Hand Champion, competed at CAI L\u00e4hden in Germany where he set the dressage ring on fire with a score of 36.35 to ultimately drive away in second place for the entire competition.<\/div>\n
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Weber was thrilled with his team\u2019s performance, a team comprised of horses owned by Weber and Jane Forbes Clark. \u201cOur dressage team showed us they have the capability of setting a new world record,\u201d<\/div>\n
Weber said. During Weber\u2019s 2011 European tour, the foreign press dubbed Weber the Dressage Master and the \u201cone to beat\u201d in the dressage ring and the nickname \u201cMr. Dressage\u201d was born. \u201cDuring the L\u00e4hden CAI my team went very well and I am pleased at how they are shaping up for the coming events in Aachen and Riesenbeck. It is humbling to work with our team, they truly are a great group,\u201d Weber said. \u201cWhile we had a fantastic and winning dressage score, the highlight of the competition was our marathon. The horses worked like a train, it was thrilling.\u201d Weber has often been quoted saying it takes a \u201cvillage\u201d to compete a four-in-hand team at the international level, and he was quick to give credit to his entire team during the German competition. \u201cI am so grateful to Jane Clark and our marvelous team of support staf f,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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Next stop for Team Weber-Clark is CAI Altenfelden in Austria and from there the team will head to the CHIO Aachen in Aachen, Germany. \u201cWe will test three other horses in Altenfelden in the marathon and<\/div>\n
we will also debut Ringo, Jane\u2019s new horse, that we bought to add depth to our string of wheelers,\u201d Weber said. As one of America\u2019s most driven and decorated competitors, Weber entered unchartered territory earlier this year when he won the USEF Four-In-Hand Championship for the ninth time. The combined forces of Team Weber and Team Clark has also proven to be a brilliant move and a positive step for American four-in-hand combined driving. \u201cI am proud of everyone involved with our team,\u201d Weber said, adding that he is looking forward to competing at the World Championships in Riesenbeck at the end of the summer. \u201cAfter that we will focus on the 2014 World Equestrian Games in France. I have the strongest team I have ever had and I look forward to more victories.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Photo: Chester Weber and his team tackle the cones phase during the 2012 CAI L\u00e4hden. (Photo courtesy of Marie de Ronde-Oudemans)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u00e4hden, Germany (June 26, 2012) \u2013 American Combined Driver Chester Weber kicked off his summer European tour in style, proving that he truly is \u201cMr…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesterweber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}