As of: January 22, 2024, 6:57 a.m
By: Alexandra Korimorth
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Full speed in front of a great backdrop: the conditions were perfect for the horse-drawn sleigh race.
© Christian Scholle
Under ideal weather conditions, over 3,000 visitors experienced 13 spectacular and exciting horse-drawn sleigh and two skijoring races in Parsberg on Sunday.
Music, cheers and applause spurred on the racers, riders and even the steeds.
Parsberg – The pony races particularly thrilled the spectators who came to Parsberg with children and all.
The little horses and mostly their very young drivers had the greatest ambition and set a breathtaking pace.
They made the most spectacular starts in dusty, glittering snow.
The drivers, who took part on small sports sleds as well as on normal wooden toboggans, took turns and the spectators frenetically cheered on the young competitors.
Marinus Bacher won all three pony races with sleighs or skis either with the pony mare “Josy vom Sonnenkaiser” or with “Jessy vom Sonnenkaiser”.
Ribbon for the winning team: Marinus Bacher (M.) after one of his victories in the pony races.
© Christian Scholle
When the ponies were riding flat, the riders were in the lead.
The cashier of the organizing Parsberg racing club, Annegrit Pötzinger, won the ponies race over 1.10 meters spectacularly on “Major Tom”, Julia Zehetmeier won the minis under 1.10 meters brilliantly on Nero.
Professionals on the move: the horses of Marion Dinzinger from Bruckmühl.
© Christian Scholle
With each race the atmosphere around the large circuit increased, which was marked out and secured with a wooden fence on the outside and spruce branches on the inside of the curve.
In the middle there was a candle that was lit for the first, rather cozy memorial race for the late founding members of the club, Jakob Schwarz and Klaus Kirchberger, after the honorary carriage - a beautifully painted, historical sleigh with founding member Hans Stückler, board member Jakob Schwarz and Miesbach's mayor Gerhardt Braunmiller and his wife - who did a lap of honor and greeted all spectators with a wave.
Braunmiller thanked the club for the professional organization of the race from the honorary stand, which was positioned directly at the start and finish lines.
He praised the ideal conditions: cold enough for snow and sunny enough that spectators didn't freeze.
The mayor wished all participants good interaction between horse and rider and an accident-free event.
Satisfied hosts: (from left) Kilian and Jakob Schwarz from the Parsberg Horse Friends Racing Club with “Penelope”.
© Christian Scholle
In this sense, speaker Florian Creator reminded visitors to keep their dogs on a leash and not to enter the racetrack under any circumstances, even if a horse should bolt.
Creator profoundly moderated one race after the other: He explained, for example, that Marion Dinzinger from Bruckmühl, one of the most successful Bavarian harness racing athletes, made the trotting show rides possible with horses that are known from the major racetracks in Germany.
The races of the large, heavy cold-blooded horses, whose hooves vibrated the ground, were impressive.
Matthäus Hundseder's breeding stallion “Vestus” achieved two victories here.
Alexander Kneißl's cold-blooded horse “Narok” also made a name for himself, as he was quickly disqualified in the one-horse race - not only because he kept falling into the canter, but ultimately literally bolting.
He bit stubbornly on the bridle and took off.
Kneißl could still pull and tug.
“Narok” made it clear that it ultimately depends on the horse and shared the lap of honor with winner “Nobell” from Lorenz Heiß.
They then left the oval together and to applause.