The Group Shot

Probably the most exciting, yet stressful job during my weekend visit at Cesar's was the group shot. We wanted to get the flavour of the Piaffe Performance team, of New Jersey and of the newly built barn all into one photo. It proved to be a whole task. In the afternoon, Cesar rallied all the girls and guys in the barn, saddled up the show horses and took them outside to the track hill for the photo.

The horses sensed something special was going on and got all excited. Thomas mounted Welfenprinz who was being the naughtiest of them all. Jen hooked Welfie up to the lung line and the group was able to go to the hill.

When this mission was accomplished after 20 minutes, the group was ready to return to the barn. Galant, however, couldn't hold his excitement and wanted to play along with naughty Welfenprinz. At the end of the photo shoot he lifted his rider Bridget out of the saddle. Fortunately, he had no where to go and was caught right away. Talk about an exciting finale.

Horses on the group photo are Silver Label (with Michael), Welfenprinz (with Thomas), Pik L, Cali, Charming and Galant.

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