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Lest you don't know, Katja is now back in her native Denmark with Cirkus Dannebrog, which will be in Copenhagen in early September, when Arena and Benneweis will be closeby.
John.
I always loved Katja as a horsewoman. I first saw her as a kid on a broadcast from Monte Carlo. She was very young at the time, and was travelling with her 7 horses and just one groom/driver.
Seems like a very hard working lady who has done every equestrian act imaginable.
I'll probably get blasted for this one, but there were aspects of her high school riding I didn't like. She didn't seem to hold her movements long enough. For instance a piaffe with just a few steps, so you didn't get a full appreciation of each movement. But, I only saw her ride a half dozen times, so that may not be general at all. My favorite of all was the way she did the skip over the hurdles, sidesaddle.
I remember reading a comment by a German trainer who said the use of the whip in presenting a high school horse was only acceptable when the rider was a woman riding side saddle. I think I saw Katja riding with a whip only once, even though she always rode side saddle.
America lost a great performer and horsewoman when she left Big Apple.
Ian
And, of course, after my lengthy comment about side saddle and the whip, I checked out Dannebrog's website and she is not sidesaddle now a days. Oh well.
Ian
Ian,
Irregardless of whether she is doing a sidesaddle demonstration any more, She is a women who truly did it one her own, without the help of "friends" for quite a while.
I disagree about the whip. Even from Baroque days, when it was a matter of cutting a twig from a tree, and carrying it over you shoulder, and using it to touch or encourage various parts of of the horses body, I think a whip is totally acceptable, IF IT IS USED PROPERLY AND WITH KNOWLEDGE.
Wade
Well, I think the guy who made the comment (I believe it was Hans Brick) wasn't refferring to misuse of the whip, but rather that the legs and reins should be used as invisibly as possible rather than the whip, which would compensate for no leg on the outside in sidesaddle.
Ian
Ian,
I don't think reins can compensate for no leg. I may be wrong, but I think you really need a whip if you are sidesaddle, without the leg on that side.
Wade
Ian - could you tell me please if the gentleman in the Vintage Chessington Zoo picture on July 5 was Hans Brick?
If so, Wade this is a man who you might also put in your Top Ten. Particularly as he, also, wasn't afraid to tell it like it really is.
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