American WEG team contender Guenter Seidel suffered a fractured pelvis in a riding accident on June 14 at Klaus Balkenhol’s stable in Rosendahl, Germany. Seidel, 49, was thrown off a fractious UII, a nine-year-old Dutch warmblood gelding owned by Dick and Jane Brown, and later underwent surgery in the Munster University Hospital. He is expected to make a full recovery.
Seidel had been planning to compete at the CDI Fritzens and CDIO Aachen leading up the U.S. WEG selection trials in Gladstone, NJ, in August, but will now be unable to compete for a spot on the team.
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