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What's
Happening in the Dressage World?
August 2003
 Bad
luck for Kyra Kyrklund. The Finnish rider qualified
for the 2003 European Dressage Championships in Hickstead,
England, but had to withdraw as the wonderful Andiamo
Tyme was injured. Kyrklund did not present Andiamo Tyme,
who is owned by Linda Fowler of Epona Farms (Ca, USA),
at the vet inspection as the white Oldenburg had a foot
abcess.
The Swiss equestrian magazine Pferdewoche announced
that former double Olympic dressage champion Nicole
Uphoff is pregnant. Uphoff, who is currently renting
some stables at Gut Gluckauf in Hunxe, Germany, where
she trains and teaches, is pregnant from her long-time
boyfriend Travis Morgan. Morgan is a New Zealander show
jumping rider who presents the jumper horses at the
Vechta auctions.
By the way, two horses failed the inspection: the Hanoverian
White
Foot, ridden by the Japanese Yoshitaka Serimachi
and Italy's Red Bastian, who was to be ridden by Stefano
Blasi. Red Bastian was already off at the 2002 World
Equestrian Games but still passed the vet check after
a second inspection. In Hickstead, the judges signalled
that Red Bastian needed some time to recouperate.
 Lars
Petersen's American dream has lost its brilliance. Denmark's
top Grand Prix rider moved to the United States last
year to start a new career. He moved into Irwin Le Pow's
Suger Hill farm as chief trainer, but LePow has changed
his mind. LePow sold his farm and Petersen has to relocate.
Lars and his wife Mette will be moving to Florida for
the winter show season and are searching for a new facility
in Pennsylvania for the summer season.
The Oldenburg Grand Prix gelding Rainier
has a new rider. Former young rider Katherine Bateson
presented the dapple grey mount as guinie pig Grand
Prix ride at the 2003 Festival of Champions in Gladstone,
NJ. We're curious if the pair will actually be competing
during the 2004 show season.
Courtney
King, whose future fell to pieces when her ride,
the Grand Prix stallion Idocus, was put into training
with Marlies van Baalen in The Netherlands, has a new
horse to realise her goals with. Courtney King rode
Rondo Veneziano, an Oldenburg by Rohdiamant, to a 71.923%
at Training level at the show of Windy Hollow Farm in
Augusta, NJ.
Images copyrighted: Dirk
Caremans / Arnd
Bronkhorst
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