KYRA KYRKLUND A SUCCESS IN STROMSHOLM
At the end of September, Kyra Kyrklund was in Stromsholm, Sweden for a clinic. It sold out with 800 people attending and they had a waiting list of more than 200 people. “My lecture demo was a trip down memory lane,” she wrote. “It is always so nice to return to Strömsholm. 37 years ago, I stayed there for 2 years, the first as a student, the second as an “apprentice teacher”. The school has grown tremendously the last years, but the “heart” of Strömsholm, the old stables and the old indoor schools, are still the same.
At demos, I usually work with horses and riders, I have not seen before. The selection I had at Strömsholm was perfect, open-minded riders that were not too intimidated by the big audience and who were happy to try “new” exercises and horses who were very cooperative. Many of the horse-rider combinations were students at the school and I was positively surprised of the quality of riding. The following day I made a special demo for 65 trainers. Some horses were the same and some were new ones, a very interesting day!”
DOM PRIMEUR SOLD FOR 505,000 €
Don Primeur, the 2009 Oldenburg state champion of Rastede, was sold at the Oldenburg auction Saturday for €505,000.
The 2006 gelding by Don Primero out of a Castro mare was sold to Denmark at the auction in which 45 horses were sold to buyers from a dozen nations, including nine to the United States and Canada and one to Japan. The auction brought in a total of €1,963,500.
RAMBO EUTHANIZED
The Danish dressage stallion Rambo died at the age of twenty-three. The horse suffered cardiac complications, and veterinarians decided to euthanize the horse last Friday. The stallion was owned by Richard Freeman since 1999.
Approved in 1989, Rambo won the young horse championships in Denmark in 1991 and 1992, for five and six year olds. In 1995, Rambo began competing internationally, and in 1998 he reached the Grand Prix level. Rambo was then selected for the Denmark team for the WEG in Rome and the Olympics in Sydney.
When he arrived in the United States, he joined Heather Blitz's stables.”He influenced my life and I learned so much” Said the rider.