Saturday

Saturday was a great day, we saw the final of the functionality and there were three worthy and professional presentations, the rest was not very impressive as the horses simply did not move but ran through the test. This was also reflected in the scores that varied with a difference of 20%, there were the three 'top' horses, the rest were 'fill out' and could really not compete with the others which is not acceptable, in the final we want to see more than three good horses/presentations please. Again, the horses need to have moves for dressage and not for carriage driving.
We saw the Grand Prix Kür, wonderful artistically, some really went for it with great composed music and advanced tecnical moves, it seemed like the artistic quality was favoured instead of perfectionism which was uplifting and inspirational! Enjoyed it!
I tried the horse we have for sale see Nr 357, excellent sporty PRE for dressage that has all moves for Prix St George + tempi twos and ones, a swingy passagy trot, lovely canter pirouettes, half pass and a good walk. It is a ambitious little horse, abit accelerated from pressure from rider, very very talented and uncomplicated to ride, I liked him alot, he has the electricity needed to do the upper level dressage. Therese rode 'Donut' meanwhile, did a very good warm-up job on him and I finished with some piaffy/passagy moves that is coming on great. Donut was admired in SICAB, Therese walked him around and had several people asking her if he was for sale, one person offered me 50000 Eur for him but he is not for sale. He loved the atmosphere, the horses and the people, I see a important horse in him, he is growing!
Therese & Donoso VII