and a good brain—he’s not a high-maintenance horse.” Vindicator combines two proven sires: 00 Seven was Reserve Champion at the Pavo Cup as both a four and a five year old, while Ferro, also known as Olympic Ferro, earned a team silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. Barbi adds that her horse
is “headed to Grand Prix. He will be the eighth horse I’ve trained to Grand Prix.” In 2011, she hauled him to the U.S. Developing Horse Finals in Illinois, where they finished eighth overall. All the horses at the forum
demonstrated that intangible but incredibly important quality: eagerness to work. When choosing a prospect, Sabine Schut-Kery says, “I like the willing horse. It’s a feel—it’s how you apply the aids, and how fast the horse responds.” Gerhard Politz praises
Rohan, for example, for his positive attitude. “He’s a horse
Vindicator in half-pass at the trot with owner-rider Barbi Breen-Gurley.
that is very secure in his own personality. For a three-year- old that has only been out twice, he gave a demonstration of not only his good gaits, but of a horse that is secure of his own being.”
A willing horse also projects eye appeal that pleases judges and spectators. Dr. Schüle sums up this appeal. “It’s a charisma, how the horse presents himself—a nice attitude.”
SPECIAL NOTE OF INTEREST Many of the young horses at the forum share prominent sire lines. Tree have the prolific Hanoverian sire Weltmeyer in the second or third generation: Rohan, Walking on Sunshine, and RHR Smooth Jazz. Both RHR Smooth Jazz and Vindicator have the Westfalen Rubinstein I in the second generation. Rubinstein sired Rohdiamant and 00 Seven.
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