Biography

It is a first Badminton for Swiss rider Nadja Minder (25) who is based near Zurich. With Badminton entry Toblerone she completed her first 5* at Pau in 2023 and last year the combination completed Burghley (20^th). The combination was the Swiss Team travelling reserve for the Paris Olympic Games.

Nadja is a former junior and young rider team member and in 2022 was a member of the senior Swiss team to contest the 2022 World Championships and the 5^th placed Swiss team at the 2023 European Championships.

She trains with Swiss team trainer Andrew Nicholson and her mother Therese now groom, a former rider who is described by Nadja as ‘a real horsewoman’.

In 2018 with Violetta she was the highest placed member of the Swiss team at Junior European Championships (8^th) and in 2021 with Toblerone was the highest placed member of the Swiss team at the Young Rider Europeans (11^th).

Toblerone CH is an 18-year-old Swiss warmblood gelding. Bred by Eric Attiger he is by the British-bred stallion Yarlands Summer Song (by Fleetwater Opposition) out of a mare of unknown breeding. Nadja took the ride in 2020 from owner Nicole Basieux who rode him to 2*. Nadja says; ‘He can go from the nicest easiest horse to a quite crazy wild one. The thing is  that you can’t take him really seriously, as he’s often only acting up. Performance wise it seems he thinks he could jump a 7* xc. But in the dressage and the show jumping we really had to make him believe in himself’.