D'Agustino by DeNiro ( won the Yr freestyle)
me in the geese at the lakeside

Julies @21st bday dinner

last day of european champs today!!! some amzing freestyles... truly awsome giving me lots of ideas for my young ones music.....

got to watch Anky warm up some of the dutch YRs very intresting as we sat behinmd her. got to see how she really uses the rolkur.... cant say i ever want to use that technique but intresting nonetheless to see how its applied..

intresting to note although she uses this head carriage on the horses the warm up is very simple.a little bot of canter etc ...then all transitions trot-halt-trot...or trot-rein back- trot.. for the 20minutes before the test just constant transitions nothing else was practiced. you really could see how it got the hind end more engaged....dont think you would ever see a kiwi doing that many transitions in a warm up..

walked around the village like crazy tourist all evening got heaps of photos. found beautiful foutains and courtyard, going back 2morrow 4 more pics