Rider wins $75,000
Schumacher’s daughter Gina-Maria impresses in Las Vegas
08/21/2023, 7:59 p.m
Michael Schumacher’s daughter Gina-Maria has already won a number of titles as a western rider. Now the 26-year-old has reason to celebrate again: she took a strong third place in one of the most renowned US competitions.
It is one of the most prestigious tournaments in so-called western riding: Last weekend, the “The Run for a Million” competition took place in the US gambling metropolis of Las Vegas. Gina-Maria Schumacher, daughter of Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher, took an impressive shared third place at what the organizers called “the highest-paying event in the history of Western riding”, and thus came up with prize money of 75,000 US dollars (the equivalent of around 69,000 euros).
Michael Schumacher’s daughter, who incidentally was also the best rider in the mixed field, has long been one of the prize-money millionaires in western riding. The 26-year-old emulates her mother Corinna Schumacher. In 2010 she was European champion in western riding. In 2005, Michael Schumacher gave his wife a riding stable in Switzerland for their wedding anniversary. Seven years later, the family bought another ranch in the USA, which also breeds horses.
Gina-Maria Schumacher was able to live out her passion for equestrian sports and especially western riding to the full here and there. In the special equestrian discipline, which is carried out in cowboy hats and western gear, the horses have to perform a number of demanding figures such as the so-called sliding stop, in which the mount slips from a gallop and comes to a standstill.
Formula 1 test driver Mick Schumacher also admires the riding skills and tournament triumphs of his big sister. Gina-Maria has “much, much more success” than him, the 24-year-old explained in an ntv interview last year. At that time, Gina-Maria Schumacher took first and second place at the European Western Riding Championships – on two different horses. Mick Schumacher also had to acknowledge that his sister was “a few championships ahead of him”.