The
future of French Dressage has never looked more uncertain
as nowadays. Two of its most important dressage riders
are selling their horses. Most striking sale is of course
that of the horses of French/Brasilian Mariette Almasy,
who is going through a rough period. Not only did her
husband, World Cup Finals organizer Jorge Ferreira Rocha,
cancel the 2001 Finals in Sao Paulo, Brasil, but he
is also divorcing her. Mariette Almasy already had to
sell her Quixote Pavarotti (Trakehner by Prisio) and
is now, due to a lack of funds, forced to sell her 1998
World Equestrian Games mount Quixote Priboy, an 11-year-old
Russian Trakehner stallion by Blesk.
The French Olympic team member Serge Cornut was also
asked to sell the gelding Vallon d'Artigny. Owner Nelly
Pau and Cornut agreed that the gelding was to be sold
after the Olympics of Sydney anyway, even if Cornut
got selected as French team member.
The
future of French Dressage has never looked more uncertain
as nowadays. Two of its most important dressage riders
are selling their horses. Most striking sale is of course
that of the horses of French/Brasilian Mariette Almasy,
who is going through a rough period. Not only did her
husband, World Cup Finals organizer Jorge Ferreira Rocha,
cancel the 2001 Finals in Sao Paulo, Brasil, but he
is also divorcing her. Mariette Almasy already had to
sell her Quixote Pavarotti (Trakehner by Prisio) and
is now, due to a lack of funds, forced to sell her 1998
World Equestrian Games mount Quixote Priboy, an 11-year-old
Russian Trakehner stallion by Blesk.
