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The 21-year-old dressage rider Diana De Meo from Eichenzell received the Golden Riding Badge, one of the highest honors in German equestrian sport, at the International Festival Hall Riding Tournament in Frankfurt.
Eichenzell/Frankfurt – The prerequisite for the award of the Golden Riding Badge is ten victories in S* class dressage tests, including one with full pirouettes, as well as a victory in S**. With this quota, De Meo is now officially one of the top contenders.
At the age of five she was already in the final of a lead rein test of the Nuremberg Burgpokal in the Frankfurt Festhalle and has since shown talent in dressage and jumping. She has been a member of the Hessian state squad without interruption since her twelfth birthday and has been selected several times the “Prize of the Best” in Warendorf, in which a vaulter from the region also took part, nominated and was one of Germany's twenty most successful juniors in 2022.
Dressage rider from Eichenzell honored with the Golden Riding Badge
The foundation of her current success is the partnership with the gelding Vernissage. Together, the couple collected numerous placements up to the advanced class and achieved a personal best in the crucial test for the riding badge. After the honor in Frankfurt, the woman from Eichenzell celebrated her triumph at her own facility “Monte Cavallino”.
The laudatory speech at the award ceremony in Frankfurt emphasized hard work, discipline, perseverance and confidence in one's own strength as the leitmotifs of her career. In parallel to sport, the athlete is studying veterinary medicine in Munich. However, Eichenzell remains the center of her life and regular stays on “Monte Cavallino” are firmly planned. The Golden Riding Badge marks a milestone, not the end of a career that accompanies the community with pride, respect and confidence. Further chapters are to follow. (mw)
