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What's Happening
in the Dressage World?
December 2007
 After 17 years together, Finnish dressage
rider Kyra Kyrklund and her long time partner British
dressage trainer Richard White finally got
married on 23rd November 2007. Kyrklund
and White live together at Snow Hill Farm in West
Sussex, Great Britain.
Photo © Scott Ramsey
The 2007 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing champion has
been named "Sieger Hit".
The bay Sandro Hit x Donnerhall, who was purchased
at auction by Mr. Aggesen, will be standing up
for stud at Stald Cajus in Gram, Denmark.
Kari and Jack Munch Christiansen run this stallion
station and are extremely pleased to have their second
dressage stallion standing at stud next to four show
jumping stallions. "This means so much for Danish
horse breeding," Jack Munch-Christiansen told
Ridehesten. "Not only do we constantly improve
our own breeding material, but we also look abroad
and import the best stallions."
 The Trakehner stallion Gribaldi has been proclaimed
Elite Stallion by the Danish Warmblood Society. The
black Gribaldi is a successful Grand Prix horse himself
and his offspring is performing likewise. Based on
the achievements of offspring in Denmark (so not taking
into account, for instance, Painted Black or Sisther
de Jeu) Gribaldi earned the title of elite sire. His
most promising Danish get are Zardin Firfod, who won
the Inter 1 Kur to Music at the CDI-W Odense and Astrid
Gemal's Schianto. (Read
more)
The newly founded ‘International Society
for Equitation Science’ (ISES) is
a non profit organisation devoted to the scientific
study of equestrianism.
Its formation is a direct result of the increasing
world wide interest in the welfare of horses among
equestrian professionals and academics alike. The
ISES council
members are veterinarians and equine welfare scientists
who share the view that problems with the ridden horse
are often difficult to address due to the lack of science
in equitation. Their aim is to promote and encourage
the application of objective research and advanced
practice which will ultimately improve the welfare
of horses in their associations with humans. The ‘International
Society for Equitation Science’ is
now represented via an online platform where more details
about the Society’s aims, its international meetings
and information on membership are given.
 Dutch
Olympic team rider Marlies van Baalen
has published a book on her riding career
from pony rider to Grand Prix rider. It also contains
a section on selecting and training dressage horses.
Written by Karin de Haan and beautifully illustrated
with photos by Arnd Bronkhorst, "Dressuur Met
Marlies" is pubishled by Fontaine and currently
only available in Dutch. The book can be purchased
through mediaboek.nl
Four dressage stallions out of five
were licensed by the KWPN society following the autumn stallion performance
test. Accepted for breeding are the 2007 reserve
champion Zhivago
(Krack C
x Jazz),
Zjengis
Khan (Rousseau x Rubinstein), Zanzibar
(Special D x Pretendent) and
Zambuka (Scandic x Biotop). Zo Romantic (by Don Romantic)
was not accepted. Zhivago has been put in training
with Edward Gal.
Hong Kong team rider Jacqueline Siu has a
new Grand Prix horse. She purchased Callaho
Wenckstern (Hanoverian, by Weltmeyer) as
hopeful for the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong.
Siu had recently
bought the Grand Prix horse Mariola in
The Netherlands a few months ago and trained
with
Anky
van Grunsven, but only a short time later the horse
had to be put down because it foundered. Siu now acquired
Wenckstern, which was owned by the
Callaho foundation that supports South African dressage
rider Nathalie
Hobday, who trains in Germany with Jonny Hilberath.
Siu lives in England but trains with Van Grunsven in
The Netherlands.
The President of the FEI, HRH Princess Haya
Bint Al Hussein, gave birth to a baby girl Alia
Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Dubai on December 2,
2007.
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