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"Remember--the ride is always the rider's responsibility."

"The most important thing a rider can do is try to 
understand the horse and make the work easy for him"

USET Selection Trials
Loxahatchee, FL
May 13-14 & May 20-21

Christine Traurig & Etienne

• Christine Traurig & Etienne finished in 5th with a 67.23%
  

  04/16	Golden State Dressage	68.44	1
  03/30	Dressage at Indio	66.02	2

• Etienne, Brown, Westfalen, Gelding, 1988 (12 year old) by Ehrentusch

• Career Highlights

• Christine who was born in the Hanover area of Germany returned to dressage in 1997.  She helps her husband, Bernie Traurig with show jumpers at their stable in California. She spent most of 1999 training and competing in Germany including Neumunster  (66.05) Amsterdam (64.83)

• From Reporter Lita Dove
  Rode horses for Verden Auction. Her talent was noted early, and she received help from the Schemzers, who run the auction and have made it one of the top horse auctions in the world. Invited to the US by world-class rider/trainer Bernie Traurig, she eventually married him. They have 2 children.
  
  Christine has trained and competed several horses at Grand Prix, but feels 
  that Etienne is perhaps the most special -- "and requires the velvet glove 
  treatment".
  
  Christine feels that the most important thing a rider can do is try to 
  understand the horse and make the work easy. Her advice to other riders might include: "remember--the ride is always the rider's responsibility." Which might sound simple and obvious, but is not...
  

• Birthdate: March 13, 1957.

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