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Rodrigo Pessoa and HH Rebozo in action at the WEG in 2010. Photo by Jenny Abrahamsson.Double H Farm and Rodrigo Pessoa announce that after a seven-year relationship, they will be going in different directions. Rodrigo Pessoa will no longer be the principal rider for Double H Farm. After an extremely successful partnership, Rodrigo will move on and Double H Farm will focus on other aspects of their business. “We have had a great relationship and friendship with Rodrigo and have enjoyed being able to support him,” said Double H Farm owner Hunter Harrison.

Pessoa stated, “I have learned a lot and been lucky enough to work with Hunter through this time. His experience as a leader and as a partner is a unique and special situation, and I'm extremely appreciative for what he has done for me. We will remain good friends and look back fondly on the great success that we have had together.” He continued, “Moving forward on good terms is really important to us. To that end, I will keep Let's Fly in my own string. I think that shows the good will and respect that we have for each other.”

"I have hardly ever ridden a horse with that scope," Jocky says about Lantinus. Photo by Jenny Abrahamsson.In some coming Exclusives we focus in on some of the world's top showjumpers and how they were as youngsters. In this second part of our series we have spoken to German rider Joachim "Jocky" Heyer, who has a long list of top horses that have passed through his stables over the years – to later end up in top of the sport. That is why we sat down with Jocky to talk about how three of them were when they where youngsters; Lantinus, Grande Dame Z and Livello.

Mathieu and Cristallo.This weekend Richard Spooner’s groom Mathieu Mougeot returns as our guest tweeter. Mathieu is in Rome for the Nations Cup with the Spooner-horses Cristallo, Billy Bianca, Let's Dance & Careto, and there will be lots of Mathieu's trademark behind the scenes-tweets and snapshots to look forward to. You can follow Mathieu’s guest tweets live on the WoSJ Twitter-account, and look for his tweets marked #mathieu.

Billy Twomey. Photo by Jenny Abrahamsson.Billy Twomey has a new ride in the 10 year old Diaghilev (Vangelis S x Handstreich). The gelding has previously been competed by Britain’s Anna Edwards, who has had great success with the horse – competing him up to five star level and winning the 3* Millstreet Grand Prix in 2012. Billy has already done his first big show with Diaghilev; the pair had two clear first rounds in La Baule this past weekend and they are also on the entry list for Rome the coming weekend.

Carthago Z has been put to sleep at the age of 26. The famous stallion was for many years one of the best showjumpers in the world under Jos Lansink, and competed at the Olympic Games both in1996 and 2000 – in addition to winning some of the world’s biggest Grand Prix classes and Nations Cups. Carthago Z is also known for his many famous offspring which today can be seen competing at top level.

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Bosty has added Colombo to his string of horses. Photo by Jenny Abrahamsson.According to studforlife.com Roger-Yves Bost has a new ride in Colombo van den Blauwaert. The 11 year old gelding by Nabab de Reve x Skippy II has previously been competed internationally by Eric Navet, and the pair also won the bronze medal at the French Championship in 2012. Bosty says to studforlife that he believes that Colombo will be a good addition to his current string of horses.

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Jur Vrieling and Bubalu VDL will compete for the Netherlands. Photo by Jenny Abrahamsson.This weekend the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup Europe Division 2 will take place in Copenhagen. Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Sweden will all have teams present in the hope of collecting some points for the overall standings. France, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland on the other hand can not collect points at this leg.

Gert-Jan Bruggink is on the list for Nörten-Hardenberg. Photo by Jenny Abrahamsson.The riders list for the CSI3* Hardenberg Burgturnier is ready, and lots of good riders can be seen in action at the event this weekend. Marcus and Johannes Ehning will both be there, as will Jeroen Dubbeldam who comes fresh from a win in Wiesbaden. Gerco Schröder, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Cian O’Connor and Laura Kraut are other strong names on the list.

Heading for Rome again; Scott Brash and Hello Sanctos. Photo by Jenny Abrahamsson.The coming weekend the beautiful CSIO5*-NC event takes place at Piazza di Siena in Rome. The show hosts the second leg of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup Europe Division 1, and France, Great Britain, Ukraine and Spain will be able to pick up points here. These teams send some top riders to Rome; Patrice Delaveau, Roger Yves Bost, Kevin Staut, Nick Skelton, Scott Brash, Ben Maher, Sergio Alvarez Moya and Kathi Offel are all on the list – in addition to lots of other strong names such as Philippe Le Jeune, Daniel Deusser, Carsten-Otto Nagel, David Will, Richard Spooner, Kent Farrington and Pius Schwizer to mention some.

Jeanne Engela. Photo by TB Images.This past weekend in Johannesburg, the first leg of the South African World Cup qualifier series took place. It was the 22 year old Jeanne Engela that rode to victory in the Knowles Husain Lindsay Attorneys Inc FEI World Cup Qualifier on her 10 year old mare, Cloof Wine’s Chanel (Canturo x Accord II). The pair were the only combination to jump a double clear round over a track built by Portuguese course designer, Bernardo Costa Cabral.

Katie Dinan ended up on top. Photo by The Book LLC.Three teenagers and a veteran rounded out the jump-off in the $100,000 Empire State Grand Prix presented by The Kincade Group, and the first to go in was the one to return to the winner's circle. Nineteen-year-old Katie Dinan of New York, NY, and her energetic partner Nougat du Vallet were double clear to win the biggest class of the Old Salem Farm Spring Horse Shows, which ran May 7-12 and 14-19. The competition concluded two great weeks of equestrian sport in North Salem with incredible entries and top horses and riders.

The $100,000 Empire State Grand Prix had 37 competitors, and they rode over a course designed by Anthony D'Ambrosio of Red Hook, NY. Riding second in the order, Dinan and “Nougat,” a 12-year-old Selle Francais gelding by Scherif D'elle, made it look easy as they bounded through the course for the first clear round. They returned first for the jump-off and set a quick pace and the only clear round in 39.898 seconds.

Nr.1; Cameron and Antello Z. All photos by Jenny Abrahamsson.

Snapshots of horses, grooms and the winner waiting for the prize giving after the Grand Prix in Wiesbaden. Here's Madeleine with Sterrehof's Tamino. All photos by Jenny Abrahamsson.