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April 4, 2009 Too cute...Sandra's little Juli photographed by Siggi in the backyard playing soccer with Jazz...
 April 3, 2009 Kristin kicked butt at the Festival of Horse show in LA. She earned her bronze medal by receiving her last required 3rd level score on Lars this past weekend. Congratulations - we are sooo... proud. They are now off to Sacramento and then will be working their way back up north to be home next week. Don Daiquiri was also at the LA show and performed his first freestyle at 2nd level. End result first place with 75.5%. Way to go. Hi Marion & Reinhart: Julia is doing well and enjoying her time - I know, it does not look like much work but believe me it is a REAL skill to keep those toes perfectly groomed...and we decided that it is a good thing to be horse trainers and NOT foot models because we would have a tough time finding work :0)
March 24, 2009 Today Kristin is heading from San Diego to LA for the Festival of the horse show. We will keep you updated with the results. Also, quick reminder, the Raf clinic is April 11-14. schedule
After that, it is time for the world Cup Finals in Las Vegas (April 15-19). Isabell Werth qualified both her top horses, Satchmo and Warum Nicht. She won the Finals with Warum Nicht in Vegas 2 years ago and will bring her Olympic horse, Satchmo this time around.
There was some drama with Anky van Grunsven, who wanted to qualify Salinero for Vegas but was not able to ride in two required qualifiers due to back pain. However, she has qualified the stallion Painted Black but is not sure if she will travel all the way to Vegas with him, as he is "only" her second horse and not quite as good as Salinero. She was hoping for a last minute wild card for Salinero but since the Dutch Federation did not apply for one, that was also a no go. The wild cards were awarded to Leslie Morse & her stallion Kingston and Jan Ebeling & his mare Rafalca.
March 19, 2009 The CDI in Del Mar was a blast. We got to visit Kristin, who has been training in California since the beginning of March. Unfortunately, bad timing would have it that an old back injury acted up two days before the event and she was unable to show off all her hard work with the 16 year old 4th level gelding Lars (below).
We saw former Cavallis sales horse and Siggi's "horse of a lifetime" award winner, Don Daiquiri. He traveled down from Vancouver BC and was enjoying the sunshine with his owner Jayne and trainer Karen. They kicked Guenther Seidel's butt in a Second Level class and won the class with a super score of 74.4%. They were able to repeat their winning streak 4 times that weekend. Congratulations :0)
Local show matador Jennifer Schrader-Williams showed Wistar in the open Grand Prix class and placed 2nd with a 62.979%.
It was fun to watch Debbie McDonalds protégée Adrienne Lyle, who originally comes from Whidbey Island. She took over the rides on Debbie's horses, Felix & Wizard as well as several promising youngsters, all sponsored by the Thomas family. Adrienne on Hanoverian gelding Felix during the CDI Grand Prix Kuer to music (left) and on the Hanoverian mare Whidbey during a second level class.
Jan Ebeling and his mare Rafalca had one of the most difficult and best freestyles during the competition.
Steffen Peters schooling his Olympic horse, Ravel (left) and competing Gwen Blakes gelding Sancette in the open PSG class, taking 2nd place with 70% (right).
Guenter Seidel with a promising youngster on the left and Leslie Morse during the jog with her stallion Kingston.
The ladies had way too much fun at Kevin & Sandi Fortun's amazing restaurant, Desert Sage in La Quinta. Yum, yum and more yum...
February 2, 2009 More great NEWs from Australia again. Kaz and Donna Bonita have won the prestigious Hanoverian Horse Society of Australia Novice/Elementary Leaderboard Award! We could not be more happy! For more information check out these two links: http://equestrian.cyberhorse.com.au/cgi-bin/tve/displaynewsitem.pl?20090119kazroe1.txt You girls rock!!! We wish you a great 2009 season!
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