Sylvia Rzepka rode the American Quarter Horse stallion Doctor Zip Nic to the first CRI Championship title of the year at Bremen at the weekend, scoring a 146.5 with great speed control, fast, flat spins and beautiful smooth and long stops.

NRHA World Champion and World Reining Masters Champion 2007 Rudi Kronsteiner (AUT) astride Lil Ruf Cody and Rieky Young (NED) astride Burnt Starlight tied for second place, scoring 145. 2007 German Champion Volker Schmitt astride Jacs Ready to Slide and Grischa Ludwig with Guunslider tied for fourth place.

The event was an important one for Germany, with the first World Reining Championship to be held in Manerbio this year.

Sylvia Rzepka was born in Starnberg near Munich in Bavaria, and after riding as a child was a reining trainer in Mitterndorf in Austria. One of her career successes includes 8th place (best German, second best European) in the individual final of the FEI World Equestrian Games 2006 at Aachen. A few months later her WEG horse Golden MC Jac died. Now she has a new potential for international competition in Doctor Cip Nic, a six-year-old stallion by Reminic owned by the Doctor Zip Nic Syndicate.

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