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This PageBettina Drummond: The Artist as Rider
Drummond was a budding pianist at the age of seven when her mother, Phyllis Field, pulled her from her studies in Paris and sent her off to Portugal to study with the great riding master, Nuno Oliveira. For the next 20 years, Drummond was immersed in the classical system of riding, most particularly the French training method. Her childhood and early adult years were spent in the company of some of the world's leading academic equestrian of the last half of the 20th century, many now long gone, but very much alive in Drummond's memory. The knowledge she gleaned from these masters, both as a student and through eavesdropped conversations among them, have carried with her through her life and is reflected in her own riding and training. Photo: Internationally acclaimed photographer Gerald Incandela captured a joyous moment of Bettina on the Andalusian stallion Boccanegra, owned by her sister Fiona Drummond and bred by Hamid Hill Farm. Read today's feature on Bettina Drummond Euro Update: Adelinde Cornelissen, 2008 Dutch Dressage Champion
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While much of the dressage world seems in conflict over the question of whether dressage is art or sport, classical trainer and rider Bettina Drummond faces no such conflict. For her, riding has always been art. 
In the
absence of the strongest Dutch Grand Prix combinations, Adelinde
Cornelissen foregrounded herself at the 2008 Dutch Dressage
Championships in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Aboard her fantastic Dutch
warmblood gelding Parzival (by Jazz), Cornelissen won all three rounds
with top percentage marks. She scored 73.750 in the Grand Prix, 73.480
in the Special and 78.700 % in the Kur to Music. Three times, Cornelissen
beat silver medal winning Anky van Grunsven
on her second horse Painted Black (by Gribaldi). The bronze medal went
to 2007 Dutch Euro Championship team gold medallist Hans Peter Minderhoud
on Nadine (by Partout). 
After five years you finally have your mare ready for Grand Prix. She’s proven she’s athletic and sound, and while you’d love to have a foal from her, you don’t want to give up any precious training and showing time. So you choose to keep competing her, but regret missing out on a great foal. Now you don’t have to make that choice. Embryo transfer just got easier. World-renowned veterinary clinic Palm Beach Equine Medical Centers, headquartered in Wellington, recently purchased the New Bridge Embryo Centre in Aiken. 
Spanish Riding School Rider Christian Bachinger will be doing at 5 day clinic, July 15-20, 2008 at Wellspring Farm, Pennsylvania. Herr Bachinger is a 3rd generation rider at the Spanish Riding School, both his father and grandfather were riders. Today his father Ernst Bachinger, long time trainer of Olympian Dorothy Morkis, serves as the current Director of the School, overseeing the horses and riders. 
The United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) Dressage Committee has released a revised draft of the Dressage Performance Standards Proposal for member review and feedback. This new proposal would establish a qualification process for competing at Fourth Level and above, at USEF-licensed and USDF-recognized Dressage Competitions. If adopted as a USEF rule change, the proposal would become effective on December 1, 2010 for the 2011 competition year. USDF members can review the new draft posted on the USEF Web site. 
Dressage rider Mrs. Lily Chiu Zilo was one of 120 torch bearers selected to participate in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Hong Kong today. Chiu-Zilo was born in Taipei and later moved to Hong Kong with her family. The Wellington resident represented her country in the 2007 Asian Games with her Dutch Warmblood mare, Windsor’s Mira, making the long journey to Qatar to represent Hong Kong. In her quest to qualify to represent her country in the 2008 Olympic Games Chiu-Zilo has been making leaps and bounds in her training with Michelle Gibson on her grand prix mount, Stradivari 14, a 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding she purchased from Hubertus Schmidt. 
Nick
Wagman won first place in the highly competitive High Performance
Intermediaire I class on Saturday with his lovely 16.2 hand Dutch
warmblood mare, Uforia who is by Negro out of Montana who is by Fruhling.
This was only the seven year old mare's second Intermediere test,
the first being at the Dressage Affaire CDI in March. Nick was delighted
with her performances over the weekend, "I can't complain. She
is now quite comfortable with the PSG test, and is becoming more
familiar with the I-I. I really don't want to pressure her, since
she is only seven. Her performances at this show made me decide to
go ahead and do the freestyle at the Flintridge qualifier in May
as we may make the Festival of Champions with these scores." 
