History

04/10/2012
2012 Great Evening of Classical Riding

Just one day after her appointment as chief German team trainer, Monica Theodorescu took part in an evening dedicated to classical dressage and former national coach Harry Boldt. The evening session was organised by the Personal Members (PM) of the German FN on 6 September 2012 and took place at the German Horse Museum in Verden, the home-town of the late Holger Schmezer who had followed in the footsteps of Boldt and Balkenhol during difficult times for German dressage.

30/08/2012
Greatest Oldies

In principle nothing special took place on a particular day in 1981 at the yard of Germany's most renowned and successful horse dealer, Ulrich Kasselmann: a client looking at an unbroken youngster whose breeder had dropped it off not long before. It was the beginning of a partnership that made Germany's Monica Theodorescu famous and that will always be remembered as one of the most inspiring of the past decades. That moment the young Monica became united with a black power house of a horse called Ganimedes.

06/05/2012
Eurodressage F.O.C.U.S.

The late Hans-Heinrich Isenbart, probably Germany’s most famous equestrian journalist, was legendary for his metaphoric language when it came to describing the relationship between man and horse. Nobody explained the passion and love for horses better than him: “Some people are even born with “bacillus equus caballus” which produces a permanent inflammation of the soul. This lifelong inflammation is not curable (…) because the patient doesn’t want to be cured," he said about innate passion for horses.

25/04/2012
Against the Odds - Exotics in Dressage

They are known as the biggest equine breed in the world. the Shire Horse is a magnificent giant with long feathers, once bred to pull a plough which became the backbone of the British farming community 100 years ago. Today the breed, which was feared to die out after the tractor took over after World War II, is popular amongst pleasure riders

17/04/2012
Against the Odds - Exotics in Dressage

The states of the former Soviet Union have a rich variety of breeds, but in dressage we usually only meet the Russian Trakehners, Latvian and Ukranian warmbloods. A breed not very famous in Western Europe and by far not a breed a dressage lover thinks of first is the one of the Orlov trotter.

04/04/2012
Against the Odds - Exotics in Dressage

It seems clever to cross a rather elegant type of coldblood like the Clydesdale, often called the “little brother of the Shire”, with a thoroughbred to get a strong and powerful horse. However it needs experience and knowledge to cross these two very contrary breeds and not end with a ton on thin stilts.

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