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Nick’s current mount Zenith (Painted Black x Krack C) taken in May at Dressage at Flintridge where they competed and won Intermediare II. They recently made their debut at Grand Prix.
one had seen in those days. (What was thought of as extrav- agant movement a few decades ago is now fairly common among the world’s top dressage horses.) The pressure was intense. “There were the real highs and the real lows. I felt the
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pressure,” Nick continues. “I was going to the major compe- titions and being interviewed constantly. There were weekly articles coming out about Krack. If you didn’t win, the newspapers went after how you rode. They pitted Krack and Kennedy, who was being ridden by a good friend of mine, against each other. You would tune in every week to see who won. I had to get a thick skin because the press was brutal. They didn’t sugar coat things like the press does here.” The more successful Krack was and the more famous he
became, the more breeders and riders wanted a horse like him. “His way of going was so different from the rest of what was going on that people started to set him as the stan- dard,” Nick explains. “Today, if a horse doesn’t move like that, then they don’t have a chance. He really changed the type people want in a breeding stallion. He was way lighter, more elegant and Thoroughbred-like. He didn’t have the stal- lion body the more old-fashioned ones had. I think it really changed the model of what people were looking for in a stallion. I’m certainly not an expert in breeding, but Krack raised the bar for what was expected.” How did he continue to get the ride when at the time
several famous Dutch riders would have done almost anything to get the horse? “Luck and a good relationship,” Nick answers, recalling with warmth his friendship with Ad. Ad assured Nick that as long he was in Holland, he was
Krack’s rider. They rose to Prix St. Georges, but not without problems. Krack’s movement was so spectacular and unique at the time that a variety of rumors were flying around
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