Warmblood
like the beach and you like the moun- tains. If she’s family-oriented and you don’t want to spend time with her mother, that’s a problem. With horses, however, chemistry is
As the saying goes,
huge—I’d say 90 percent of a success- ful equine partnership is compatibility, chemistry, whatever you want to call it. I guarantee nobody could have made of Gifted, Verdades, Brentina and Ravel what Carol, Laura, Debbie and Steffen made of those horses. Alison Brock and Rosevelt, too. A good brain is important, and so is conformation, but you have to believe in your horse if you want him to be all he can be. So go look at horses everywhere: consider gaits and
“you need to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.” So kiss a lot of frogs.
pretty good kissers—but I don’t know if they’re princes yet. (Though the two- year-olds, you can’t even put your lips on them!) Once we get them started un- der saddle, we’ll see what we’ve got. Whatever qualities you want in a
horse, get out there and look. Whether you shop in the U.S. or in Europe, see everything you can see, give each horse
a try, then take home the one you fall in love with. Your next prince is out there.
temperament and conformation, then follow your heart. Ask yourself if this horse makes you happy. Because if you’re bloody miserable, it won’t work. It’s like a marriage: if you do stick it out with the wrong one, you won’t have a happy life. Look at every horse you can until you find the one you’re looking for. There’s a lid for every pot. As the saying goes, “you need to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.” So kiss a lot of frogs. I’ve got a back field full of frogs. Some of them are
An FEI dressage rider/trainer of Long Valley, New Jersey, and Loxahatchee, Florida, Michael Barisone has a thriving training business and several young horses in the works. Michael was reserve for the 2008 Olympic team riding Neruda. He and Vera Kessels- Barisone, a Dutch native and Grand Prix dressage rider, purchase foals in Holland each year and produce all of their own Grand Prix horses.
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