As promised, here’s a sequence of photos showing Krzysztof Szuster’s and his five-in-hand during the final driver’s test at the Celle CIAT:
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September 12, 2012
the champagne test
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September 11, 2012
a drive in the country on a rainy day
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It’s a good thing that A.J. and I both took a lot of photos while we were in Germany, as it’s allowing me to keep throwing photos up here while I work frantically continuously on the October issue of the magazine (it’s due to the printer in a few days). I hope you’re continuing to enjoy Germany as much as I am!
What we were able to see of the Celle CIAT country drive on Sunday morning was lovely, but we didn’t really end up with very many photographs in the end … what with the on-and-off rain, some limited sightlines through the various shrubbery, too much shade under the French Garden’s avenue of trees, and people wandering in front of us as we tried to photograph the turnouts.
Here are just two photos from the French Garden portion of the drive:
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… And here’s one from behind the new city hall building:
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The final portion of the drive was back at the Landgestüt:
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First, each turnout entered the arena and drove once around the track:
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Then, in the center of the arena was the final “test of the drivers’ skill” for the morning’s drive. The drivers had to come to a complete stop next to a stand that consisted of two platforms (at two different heights) on a pole. On one of these platforms (at the appropriate height for each driver) was a glass of champagne. They had to take the glass, drink the champagne, drive (holding the glass, so one-handed) to the next stand, stop there, and set the empty glass on that platform. Here, you can see one of the four-in-hand drivers reaching for his glass of champagne:
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I’ll have more on this driver’s test in tomorrow’s post …
September 8, 2012
yes, that’s five horses
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And, finally (well, for the presentation phase, at any rate): here are a few views of Krzysztof Szuster’s five-in-hand, put to a 1901 Break de Chasse (Hunting Break). The driver, his passengers, grooms, and horses all made the trip to Celle from Poland.
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September 6, 2012
two beautiful tandems
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This Celle CIAT recap may take even longer than I’d planned. Both A.J. and I got a little carried away with photographing two of the beautiful tandems competing in the event.
But how can you blame us, really? Both drivers had gorgeous Spanish horses hitched to lovely American-made Going to Cover Carts. And there were even dogs!
Out of four competitors in the tandem division, the first one shown here (the one we took *so many* photos of) finished the competition in first place overall in the division, and the other (shown second here) won the presentation phase among the tandem drivers.
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First, we have Urbain van de Voorde, from Belgium, driving a Going to Cover Cart built c. 1900. We even had the good fortune to meet these two lovely dogs on Friday evening.
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except for an “extra” fifth hoof, this looks like a single, but it is actually a tandem
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you probably can’t read this axle cap, but it says, “Flandrau & Co., N.Y., Broome St.”
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Next up was Danielle van der Wiel, representing her native Great Britain and driving a Brewster Going to Cover Cart, built c. 1890.
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September 5, 2012
more antique carriages
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Here are some of the pairs of horses from the Celle CIAT …
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Representing the United Kingdom, Elizabeth Cartwright-Hignett drove her pair to a four-wheeled Ralli Car:
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Dr. Florian Geyer, representing Austria, drove a Siamese Phaeton built c. 1910:
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Siegfried Kusel, representing Germany, drove his pair to a vehicle built c. 1900:
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Heinrich Lindemann, representing Germany, drove a Demi-mail Phaeton, built in 1893:
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Also representing Germany, Jürgen Matthies had his pair hitched to a Dog-cart, built c. 1900:
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Dutch driver Bert de Mooÿ drove an Omnibus, c. 1890:
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Hans-Jürgen Niemeyer, representing Germany, had his Friesians hitched to a Demi-mail Phaeton, c. 1890 (which, if I remember the announcer’s information correctly, was built in nearby Bremen, Germany):
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Bruno Retzlaff (Germany) drove a German Jagdwagon, or Hunting Wagon, built c. 1900:
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One of the walking sticks on display with Thomas Schlimgen’s Dos a Dos, c. 1900, has a dog’s head … and it’s sticking its tongue out:
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Heinrich Schumacher, representing the local Landgestüt Celle, drove a pair of the stud farm’s Hannoverian stallions:
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Günter Stolle, representing Germany, drove an Oppenheimer Phaeton, c. 1910. And, at the announcer’s urging and with a spectator’s help, he demonstrated how the vehicle switches easily from one to two seats:
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The final pair of the day was the one owned by Belgian harness maker Henk van der Wiel, hitched to a Sporting Break, built c. 1900:
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The Slower Road 