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Ludger Beerbaum’s 13-year-old mare Mila (Monte Bellini x HH Linton) has been sold, and the new rider is Nadja Peter Steiner – a team bronze medallist for Switzerland at the 2017 European Championships. Mila and Peter Steiner did their first international start together in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday during the Doha International Equestrian Tour 2025.

Mila has been successful with both Ludger Beerbaum and former Beerbaum Stables-rider Eoin McMahon. McMahon did his last international appearance with Mila during the GCL Super Cup in Riyadh in November, where the two jumped three clear rounds for Riesenbeck International. McMahon left Beerbaum Stables shortly after, to join forces with his partner Wilma Hellström.

As a youngster, Mila was competed by Beerbaum’s former employee Tadahiro Yayashi before Beerbaum took over the reins when the mare was seven. In 2022, Beerbaum and Mila won the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Doha, as well as the Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Mexico City. When Beerbaum was out with an injury at the beginning of 2023, McMahon kept Mila going and then resumed his partnerhip with the talented mare after Beerbaum announced his retirement in Aachen in July 2023. McMahon and Mila went on to win team silver as part of the Irish squad at the 2023 European Championships in Milan, Italy.

Now the mare has joined Peter Steiner’s increasingly strong string of horses, and the addition was completely unexpected for the Swiss rider. “Mila was a present from my mother,” Peter Steiner told World of Showjumping. “It was an incredible surprise; I couldn’t believe it at all. I rode her for the very first time on Wednesday, and the first time I jumped with her was in yesterday’s class – a 1.30m.”

“I don’t have a special goal with her for the moment,” Peter Steiner said. “If everything goes well, she will for sure help me a lot and support my other horses Nice van’t Zorgevliet and No-Comment de Septon for the Global-season this year – and also at other shows. However, all this is very early to talk about, as we have to get to know each other better first.”