BTB: "Almost" only counts in horse shows: A TB almost does dressage at WEG

"Almost" only counts in horse shows: A TB almost does dressage at WEG

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 02:20 PM PDT

Last month Britain's Laura Bechtolscheimer, the third-ranked dressage rider in the world, rode her mount Andretti H to win the 2010 National Championships. Their score of 78.55% is aaaawwwffuully close to the scores Bechtolscheimer achieved with her top mount Mistral Hojris prior to WEG (I think her high score was 81%). Last week at WEG she got three silver medals at WEG with Mistral and a personal best score of 85%.

But this is about Andretti. He stayed "across the pond," but if Mistral had not been able to perform he was in the wings as the backup horse.

A coverup? ;-)
Here's a word about Andretti's breeding. In the show programs and on the scoreboard, Andretti H is referred to as Hann for Hanoverian; Hanoverian by Arking XX, where XX indicates thoroughbred; or sometimes just German bred. Humpf! For the record, he's 7/8 thoroughbred (see pedigree). Here's a nice video...