![]() Your parents, were they your first teachers? ![]() The challenge of trying to find the next good horse, trying to win the next championship, or being a part of the team, it’s still there.” “Yeah, I love the competition, I love working with horses. I seemed to have some talent for it, I liked it. I started riding when I was three or four years old in riding school, it was just a natural thing. ![]() “My parents had horses when I was born, so I grew up in a stable. What drove you to make riding and jumping your life? If you get them when they are young you develop that partnership as they get older.” When you get them when they are older it takes time to get a partnership. For sure it’s nice to work with a horse when he is young, then you feel when he is nine or ten you are ready to do something important, something big, if the horse is up to that. “When you see a good horse, you have to jump on it. We had a lot of confidence when we made that buy.”ĭo you prefer to buy a horse like that – a horse that has been well started, or do you prefer to start them yourself? “And Jeroen had the horse since he was two, so he had a beautiful upbringing. Getting a horse from Jeroen you know there is no trash on it, he is such a classy rider… We’ve done business with Jeroen before so we had a lot of trust in him, we saw some videos of the horse… When I tried the horse, I loved the feeling and felt like I’d like to work with him.” The moment we saw him on the cross-ties, he drew us towards him because he is not just beautiful but very classy looking. “He was seven when we bought him and he had tremendous jumping ability. What attracted you about Breitling in the first place? I did several classes before that to make sure he was show-fit enough to jump enough rounds – he was third in the last Grand Prix so hopefully we have him peaking at the right moment, but you never know until you try…” He did some indoor shows in the fall, he won the World Cup qualifier in Washington, then he had almost two months break, then we started him up in Wellington, he did three competitions, one was kind of a prep week, then another when he did the nations cup and then a third week where he did a five-star Grand Prix. “He’s had a bit of a light season heading towards this. Have you given him a big prep or a light prep, coming here? He’s careful and he has enough blood to jump quite a few rounds – he proved it last year, we’ll see what he does this year.” He’s good for this competition because he’s quite rideable, he’s handy, he’s fast when I need him to be fast. He was born in Mexico, on the La Silla Stud. “He’s thirteen, we’ve had him since he was seven. I don’t like a horse that is too cold.”Ĭan you tell me a little about the horse you’ve brought here to defend your title, Breitling… “They are breeding Thoroughbreds now a much smaller size, much more speed, and not so many of them make it to jumping anymore, but I do like a horse with a lot of blood. ![]() Would you prefer to ride a Thoroughbred horse? The horses are becoming more similar, and so are the riders.” “Probably I am a little more American, forward style seat riding than some of the Germans, but I think it is all getting quite similar now, they have more horses with more and more blood. ![]() Working in at Göteborg – Beezie, Breitling and John…Īre you working with something similar to the German Training Scale, rhythm, relaxation, before you get complicated… If you do your homework, that’s what leads to success.” It’s the same thing with training riders, they need the basics, the correct position, in order to be able to influence the horse in the correct way. You can’t get too locked up into having one system for all horses, but I think we try to make everything have sense and having building blocks – when you start with a young horse you’ve got to work on the rideability, all the basic things before you can move up the levels. At the same time, I like to treat each horse as an individual. “My basic principles are to stick to the basics really. Lucky then to catch up with her, the day before the Jumping final began.Ĭan we talk about your basic principles when it comes to training and riding? In 2004 she was the first woman to amass $1,000,000 in winnings from showjumping, and the same year, won team gold at the Athens Games… In 2019, Beezie is still at the top of her game and comes to Göteborg as the defending champion, having won the cup in Paris last year. (FEI photo / Liz Gregg) Christopher Hector talks to the defending champion…īeezie Madden has been one of the enduring treasures of showjumping for almost two decades. Beezie and Breitling LS win in Paris 2018, can they make it two in a row? ![]()
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