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2004 P.S.I. Auction
Party Preparation
 When
Thomas and I arrived in Ankum we picked up our entrance
tickets and watched the presentation of the horses.
The ring was beautifully decorated with red silk
curtains, white tree branches, blue PSI ribbons and
christmas lights all over. The presentation was very
interested. It's one thing to see the horses on
a perfectly choreographed
DVD,
but another
to see them going in real
life.
Of all the horses we saw go in half an hour, Dance
for Me (Don Larino x Rouletto) amazed me the most.
This
3-year
old was
so light on the hand, and had such a super uphill
canter and powerful trot. Wow! The following day this
lovely
mare was sold to Bavaria for 100,000 euro. Of course
the top horse of which every knew she would fetch a
huge price, was Damenwahl. The chestnut mare fulfilled
all
my expectations
and was an absolute dream
horse.
By
6.30 PM we drove from Ankum to Osnabruck to the Steigenberger
Hotel, where we got dressed for the party.
Thomas and I made sure to wear matching outfits. He
wore a black suit with a dark gray tie and I wore a
big silk gown with silver beads embroidered on.
 All
jazzed up we went to the lobby for a cocktail before
being picked up by the P.S.I. shuttle services. We
shared a Range Rover with a German couple who kindly
asked us if we were buying horse at the auction.
The German couple was the Pohlmann pair from Cologne,
Germany. They did not want to tell us which horse they
were buying out of fear of being outbid by us (as
if we were the ones with the big bucks ;).
They ended up buying Lili Marlene, a Lord Sinclair
mare. The Pohlmanns were a very nice couple. At a certain
moment, while they were talking to the driver, I was
whispering to
Thomas
a story I heard in Devon. It involved saying a specific
spicy line in Swedish ("Swedish Girls are good in bed")
and when I told Thomas that line, Mr Pohlmann started
laughing out loud. Apparently he knew Swedish as well.
Talk about being "boothed". I thought that only happened
in restaurants in Wellington.
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