handle on the ground at that time. You couldn’t put brush- ing boots, bell boots or anything on him. He wouldn’t toler- ate it. You couldn’t body clip him. You could ride him, but he would shut down on you. In the five years I owned him, he bucked me off three times. The bucks were horrendous.” Because she recognized his athletic ability, Roanne tol-
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erated the bucks and trained him to start his show career at Third Level. She showed him lightly in Florida to see how he reacted in the show ring. “We took him to a couple of shows. He was pretty good. He never showed his true colors there. Then I started to put the Grand Prix moves on him and I knew what I had in him. That was one big horse. He had a huge piaffe and passage. He did all the move- ments, the ones and everything.” Then she adds, “He’s a good looking horse, a big dark bay gelding. He is probably around 17.1, maybe 17.2.” In 2006 she brought him out at Prix St. Georges and
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Intermediate I. He did his first Grand Prix in 2007 and she showed him until January 2008. “I trained him to the Grand Prix. He was for the most part pretty good if I could keep him under control,” says Roanne. When asked where he excelled in the Grand Prix tests, Roanne answers jokingly, “Bucking.” Then after a pause, “He could, but not in tests.” The real truth was that Cinco excelled in piaffe and passage and was a natural. “We did a lot in hand with him as a youngster in piaffe. He was so enamored by piaffe that we had to stop. Most people need to keep going. Not with him! We put him under saddle and he took to it like a duck to water. You just had to watch the bucks.” She describes Cinco as “a fun horse,” adding, “I finally got
him around to be able to body clip him and put brushing boots and bandages on him. He was always good at shoe- ing. That was never a problem.” John Winnett, husband and coach, passed away in 2007, which was part of the reason Roanne sold the horse. She says, “I would go for a couple of shows and just school him. Everybody wanted him. He was just that good.” The horse attracted Colombian FEI rider Cesar Parra.
“Cesar loved him,” says Roanne. “Cesar wanted him primar- ily for himself. At that time it was more in my interest to sell him. Cesar competed him up to Intermediate II and the horse was brilliant. Then he was sold to Germany.” In Europe, Cinco (renamed Cinco de Mayo) has trav-
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eled to top shows with owner/rider Christian Brühe, an entrepreneur based in Cologne who owns the international company Uniplan and who also competes another Grand Prix horse besides Cinco named Roble AR. Cinco’s 2013 competitions included Vejer de la Frontera, Deauville and Wiesbaden. “He is still a great, great horse,” says Roanne. “His new owner is doing really well with him. I hear he is aiming to take him to the 2016 Olympics in Rio and may ride for Palestine at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in France. Good for him—and good for the United States!”
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