Category: Horse Shows
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$500,000 Rolex CSI 5*An Exciting Night!
The final ‘Saturday Night Lights’ was a very exciting night of show jumping. There were a total of 40 horses and riders and amoung them several of the best in the world. But the course designed by Guilherme Jorge was full of difficult questions for these riders . The second pair to go Richard Vogel…
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The last show…
Biasini may not have been in this last show of the Global Dressage Festival but the horse I previously referred to as ” the Understudy” was there to compete. And considering how well he did I shall call him by his real name: Diamanten Dave. On Thursday March 30 he competed in the Prix St.…
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The day’s Good News and Bad News!
I started the day with a Press Conference at Wellington International , the home of the Winter Equestrian Festival. WEF. The Press Conference was to give the media information about the upcoming $500,000 Rolex Grand Prix CSI 5*. Forty of the top horses and riders in the world will compete for the top money. This…
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CDI 5* at Wellington International.
In the usual course of dressage events we watch the Grand Prix Freestyles at the Global Dressage Festival stadium. But yesterday the culminatation of the Grand Prix classes was held in the International Arena at the Wellington International showgrounds. This is usually the arena for the big jumper competititons. But this week the jumps were…
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I Have Good News!
First of all I want to thank all the WordPress bloggers who sent positive vibes,healing vibes and positivitiy for me and Biasini yesterday. The vet came this morning and started by palpating the leg. It did look a lot better today I should add. Then we went out to the driveway and the vet’s assistant…
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What a difference a day can make!
As I was preparing to go to the barn, in good time, to get Biasini to the show for his Intermediare 1 test, my phone rang and I saw it was Lynsey. Immediatley I suspected that something was wrong. It was. She told me that Biasini had a puffy right front leg. They had jogged…
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Todays’ Test was a Triumph!
Today Lynsey Rowan rode my horse Biasini in the FEI Prix St.George dressage test. I know from when I have ridden him in the competition arena that he can get very strong and start to pull like a freight train! But today I could see there was none of that. His frame was in the…
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The “Baby” Aids
Riding just using ‘baby’ aids.What does this mean? In the lesson with Belinda Trussell that I watched last week Belinda often told Lynsey Rowan to just use a ‘baby’ aid with Biasini. What I understood this to mean was to use a very small and light aid. If you get the response you want then…
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Monday Portrait
Biasini has done his work for the day. Lynsey will take him for a walk to relax and then he gets his bath, some hand grazing with his ice boots on and then….dinner!
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CSIO4* Nations Cup
I will not keep you in suspense about who won the Nations Cup jumping at WEF last night. It was Canada!! The first round took place in the afteroon and in the evening the top eight teams went again. The leader going into the second round was Belgium with only 4 faults from the afternoon,…
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Friday Night Stars!
Just to be clear the stars are the horses and riders performing their freestyles to music at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival. In case you are not familiar with dressage freestyles these are choreographed to show the movements from the dressage tests the horse is currently competing at. For the Friday nights these are horses…
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The Understudy Steps Up!
My coach Belinda Trussell had entered a show at the Global Dressage Festival . She was entered in the Prix St.George class. But the horse she had entered was not able to compete today. So the Understudy had to step up. This was a big step for the Understudy. He has never competed at the…