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By Judy Wardrope Maturity of a Top Jumper
n general, there are two ways to gain maturity: age and experience. Reveur de Hurtebise HDC has both. He is sBs (Belgian Sports Horse Society) by registry, and his name means “Dreamer of Hurtebise” (the farm where he was bred). His current rider is Kevin Staut of France.
Although not the oldest jumper at the WEG 2018, the only horse older than him in his discipline, Salto Por
Salto Centina (age 18), has 32 competitions listed in the FEI database, while our subject gelding (age 17) had an incredible 310 competitions prior to the WEG.
Reveur’s History If the name Reveur de Hurtebise HDC does not roll off your tongue or tweak a recollection, it might help to know that he was entered in an auction as a four-year-old, but did not sell. The following day, Malin Baryard-Johnsson of Sweden was told she should look at him. “I saw a small chestnut gelding (1.64 m) with not much aura about him. I was pregnant, so I only rode him a little bit and jumped him a few times. I said, ‘We have to buy this horse,’ because of the feeling he gave me, not the look of him. He has so much power and energy, but is very sensitive at the same time. I had to be very still in the saddle,” reports Malin. Known as ‘The Fox’ in Sweden because Reveur sounds like the
Swedish word for fox, he started his career at the FEI level with Malin in La Baule just prior to his actual eighth birthday. He had a single time fault. “He’s very careful,” she says. Incidentally, Malin was at the WEG, riding a 10-year-old mare by the same sire as Reveur, but says the mare is much bigger (1.70 m), has a higher head carriage and is a different type, but still has the same sensitivity, power and jump. Reveur continued with his Swedish rider, logging between 30
and 50 competitions a year throughout Europe until March of 2012. France’s Kevin Staut had been watching the horse and says,
“The owners bought him because he was competitive enough and they felt it was safe to buy him because Malin trains them naturally. In modern sport, size does not matter. He uses his body well and is very clever.” The chestnut emerged again with Kevin aboard in April of 2012, and he fast became a regular on French Nations’ Cup teams. He was on the French silver-medal team at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy, so Tryon was not his first WEG. Two years later, he contributed a double-clear to France’s team gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He also won a
This series of photos shows some of the ranges of motion our jumper goes through over each fence. The time elapsed from #1 to #6 is approximately one second.
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