Las Marismas to showcase new mounts in 2005
International dressage competitor Yvonne Losos
de Muñiz of the Dominican Republic, the 2003 Pan American
Games Bronze Medallist, will be showing three exciting new mounts
in 2005.
After being named the Leading Rider on
the competitive 2004 Sunshine Tour in Spain and the highest-placed
Latin American rider in the current FEI/BCM World Dressage Rankings,
Losos de Muñiz will be returning to Wellington, FL, this
winter with three new horses. Along with her Pan Am Bronze Medal
partner, Inatana Las Marismas, a 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood mare
by Latano, and her Grand Prix mount, Rittersport Las Marismas, an
11-year-old Westphalian gelding by Royal Angelo, Losos de Muñiz
has three new European acquisitions to accompany her to the show
ring.
Bernstein DVH 696 is an eight-year-old chestnut Hannoverian stallion
by the Trakehner sire, Banditentraum, and out of a Hannoverian mare
by Winterwald. Now standing 17hh, he was purchased at the Hannoverian
stallion licensing, and was presented as a three-year-old at the
Danish Warmblood studbook approval, where he received the highest
scores ever awarded.
Bernstein has already accumulated an impressive competitive record
under his previous co-owner, Morten Thomsen, a two-time Olympian
for Denmark. At the 2002 Young Horse World Championships held in
Verden, Germany, Bernstein placed seventh overall, receiving scores
of 8’s and 9’s for his gaits and impression. In 2003,
he won every dressage class he entered.
His offspring are also excelling in their own right, claiming the
2000 and 2002 Grand Champion Foal titles in Denmark. And there is
surely more success to come as, in 2004 alone, Bernstein covered
more than 100 mares.
“I feel that this is an outstanding horse with all the ability
to do grand prix,” said Losos de Muñiz, who divides
her time between training and competing in the Dominican Republic,
North America and Europe. “He has outstanding gaits and is
schooling passage and piaffe. Most importantly, he has a desire
to work and a willingness to please.”
In addition to Bernstein DVH 696, Losos de Muñiz has also
purchased two young horses that she plans to show in the FEI Five-Year-Old
classes in 2005. Ambassador is a stunningly beautiful chestnut Westphalian
gelding with three excellent gaits by the Oldenburg sire, Abanos,
out of a Parademarsch dam.
The other, Dondolo, was purchased at the famed Blue Hors stud in
Denmark and is a chestnut gelding by Blue Hors Don Schufro by Donnerhall
out of a Blue Hors Romancier mare. In a recent clinic with former
FEI Dressage Chair, Eric Lette, Dondolo received scores of 9 for
his walk, 9 for the canter and 9.5 for his trot. Lette also noted
the horse’s impressive quality and his outstanding potential
for the Grand Prix.
Fans of Losos de Muñiz can look forward to seeing all three
new horses on the Florida dressage circuit, as well as welcoming
back Inatana Las Marismas who made such an impression with her bravery
and elegance during the 2003 Pan American Games. Competing in Florida
will be a ‘retirement tour’ of sorts for the mare, as
she will begin a new career as a broodmare in Europe in the spring.
Losos de Muñiz, 36, will also be travelling to Europe following
the Florida circuit to continue training and competing.
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