We present; The GOOD rider..

Nr 284

Nr 327
Mrs Leslie Reid has done 3 Olympic games and 3 Pan American Games for Canada winning the Individual Gold Medal in 2003 in the Dominican Republic! We told you she was a GOOD rider!
Nr 452
Leslie was the first rider to qualify for Canada's 1996 Olympic team and in November of 1996 she captured the Volvo World Cup Dressage Canadian League Final, and, although unable to attend, won the right to represent Canada.
She broke, trained and competed a bay dutch warmblood gelding called 'Mark', and became Canada's most successful dressage rider.
In 2003, Leslie and Mark, won team and individual gold at the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic. She became a member of the Canadian Olympic team showing at the Games in Athens. They won the 2004 Dressage at Devon CDI, the Canadian League World Cup Finals and finished second in the Consolation Freestyle at the 2005 World Cup Finals in Las Vegas.
Now Leslie has bought this very talented young PRE stallion from us and here is the story;
We saw the horse the day before we had to leave for SICAB and sent a email saying we had found what we wanted for her. We viewed the horse in our stables a thursday in the evening and Javier and I agreed (special occasion) it would be more intelligent to buy this horse rather than selling him..
Silence and Leslie said; 'Let's see if he does the canter backwards too!' Which was an interesting request, we have sold a horse that did spanish walk backwards and I thought that was quite extravagant. This young-super-talent did do flying changes, half pass in trot and canter, spanish walk and even though he did not do the canter backwards he did do a extended trot that made us all think - wooow, this horse is mine! Only a very talented horse can perform with such ease, lightness and balance. Later on in the evening we had the vet drawing blood to have a pirotest done, next evening we got the results and he was piro-free, Javier and I definitely felt ambivalent about that result as if he would have been positive he would have been our horse but, with this result clients go first. On the saturday we all attended the 4 hour long 45+ xrays vet. exam which he passed.

So Nr 1 on our Best-Movements-Ever-Seen list will go to Canada, we found the right horse for the right client, when things are flowing they are meant to be, congratulations!

Nr 451
Summary; We are delighted Leslie and Brian got this horse (Nr 451), we are also very excited as he is a wonderful representative of the PRE race and also for us, and, that he will get the great opportunity to be professionally trained by Leslie. We can't wait to see him fly! We wish Leslie and Brian much success and many happy rides.