Good Horsemanship Makes Happy Horses - Nintendo Still Winning At The Age Of 18 With Charlotte Jorst

There is no shortage of toxic trainers and bad riding in the Wellington dressage scene. What there is a shortage of is the awesome and happy riders and horses like Charlotte Jorst and Nintendo.

Being a champion is not always about winning, it is about advocating and doing what is best for your horse. Charlotte Jorst has joined the ranks as one of the top riders in the world with Nintendo and he looks as fit and as happy as he did when she first rode the Grand Prix with him.

Good horsemanship truly does make happy horses and it is a delight to see Nintendo winning the Grand Prix at the age of 18 with Charlotte Jorst. What a refreshing and welcome change!

Press release:
Wellington, FL – Two high quality grand prix classes set the tone on the opening day of week five of the 2022 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington, FL. AGDF, which hosts seven weeks of CDI competition, runs through April 3.

Charlotte Jorst (USA) rode her own Kastel’s Nintendo to 72.579% and the top spot in the World Cup™ short Grand Prix, presented by Wellington Equestrian Realty. At 18 years old, the stallion by Negro was the oldest in the field of 11 starters and emerged the unanimous winner across the five judges.

“Nintendo feels better and better all the time,” enthused the 55-year old Danish-born American rider, whose previous competitive outing with the horse was at Aachen, Germany, in September 2021. “He’s more and more in front of my leg, he’s more and more up, and he loves the job. He’s so excited to be here; he’s happier than a clam.

“I think the two pirouettes with the one-times in between [were the highlight of the test], because he’s so straight in those ones and those pirouettes — you can come up that centerline and things just happen right after the other in this test. It was just wonderful,” added Jorst, who was riding the modified short version of the grand prix test in competition for the first time with Nintendo.

“I think it’s fun to do another test,” she said. “It’s fun that you do the canter depart and then up the centerline and you have to do the zigzag. The test is kind of nifty, so I’m good with it.”

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