Germany’s Michael Klimke completes his most successful Global Dressage Show with victory on Harmony’s Scout

WELLINGTON, Florida, Jan. 13, 2019–Michael Klimke debuted the newly acquired Harmony’s Scout S to win a national Intermediate II Sunday to complete the German rider’s most successful Global Dressage Festival with four victories in seven CDI starts to begin his fifth year on the Florida winter circuit.

Michael and the 10-year-old Hanoverian stallion (Scolari x Rhodiamant) scored 70.441 per cent. Scout is owned by Leslie Malone’s Harmony Sporthorses of Kiowa, Colorado for whom Michael has been riding for the past decade.

On Harmony’s Diabolo, the pair swept the CDI3* of Prix St. Georges, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate Freestyle.

“I’ve had him since he was six,” he said, “and I really think his highlight is strength mentally, with the nerves; he’s totally rideable. The gaits are good, and the highlight at the end is his availability for piaffe and pirouettes. He can really sit.”

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