Hubertus won the Grand Prix Special on Private Dancer with a 70+% at the Paderborn show. A couple of things that make shows here more interesting, they play music with each ride that coincides with the gait that the horse is in and begins and ends as the horse does. They also give each rider a glass of wine as they come out of the competition areana. The other thing is that NOBODY leaves before the prizegiving. They love to celebrate the winner. The pictures included today are: Hubertus receiving his 1st place on Private Dancer, Mieko Yagi from Japan with her horse Dow Jones( she commutes from Japan every few weeks to ride Dow Jones, who stays with Hubertus, Hubertus signing autographs after the Special, the view from my apartment window. We haven't seen the sun now for about 10 days and not expecting to in the near future. By the way, if you think you pay alot for gas, you should be here. It is 1.18 Euro per litre ( there are about 4 litres to a gallon and a Euro is worth about 1.28 US dollars or about 5.12 per gallon!)