Dutch A-team rider Stephanie Peters has lost the ride on her top Grand Prix horse Unlimited. The owners have decided to sell the 12-year old gelding.
Looks-wise the tall, long legged Unlimited is a spitting image of Adelinde Cornelissen's Parzival and he shares the same spookiness and sensitivity with many Jazz offspring. Unlimited is bred by Stal Arends and J. Sturkenboom-Vernooy and is by Jazz out of a Clairudith (by Winckenburg x Pantheon xx).
Peters and Unlimited made their break through at Grand Prix level at the 2012 Dutch Dressage Championships in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, where they produced their first top scores. Their highlight performance at the Nationals made them qualify to compete at the 2012 CDIO Aachen.
The duo continued on excellent form during the 2012-2013 winter show season with a stand-out performance in the Grand Prix (71.617%) at the 2013 CDI-W 's Hertogenbosch. However at the spring and summer outdoor shows they lost a bit of their high-scoring form and were struggling to crack the 70% barrier.
Unliminted is owned by B. Vonk and Stable Perlee, who prefer to sell the horse now. "For a high performance athlete as I am, this is very sour, but this is how the horse sport works," Peters commented on a sports program of the local Dutch tv-staton L1.nl. "I can't say much about it."
Photo © Astrid Appels
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