Sunday, July 23, 2006

Behind the Scenes in Germany With the US Dressage Short Listed Riders for the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games
Photos by Craig Bernstein and Debbie McDonald

With less than 30 days to go before The Games begin, we have been getting updates from our groom to die for (and so much more!) Craig Bernstein. And that’s not all, we are lucky enough to be on Debbie McDonald’s e-list, getting frequent updates from her as well. So we are here to share, photos and tidbits of life in Germany before the action heats up.

Craig works for Tuny Page caring for Wild One, as well as helping the team manage packing and shipping of equipment. And lucky for us he’s bored! That’s because with only one horse to care for, and the short listed riders and horses arriving at different times, Craig with his ever handy camera and Blackberry is keeping us posted with pre-Game news fro Stahl Balkenhol.

Tuny arrived last week, and was off to visit her beloved Clare currently enjoying her life as a mother to be. Guenter Seidel and Aragon, Debbie McDonald and Brentina, Tuny Page and Wild One, and Heather Blitz and Arabella are settled into Stahl Balkenhol, hanging out training, trying to keep cool, and preparing for their first national show next weekend. Suzanne Dansby-Phelps and Cooper will be coming in later this week to train. Then it will be off to Verden, where they will be joined by Steffen Peters and Floriano. We hear Leslie Morse and her “boys” Tip Top and Kingston are in England working with Kyra Kyrkland. Leslie’s stallions have to go through a longer quarantine process than the others, something she is used to after something like 11 trips over the last few