So its time again!

So it's time again! This time we are going to Show-Park San Diego!
Regent will go out again.Not only did he win all his test @ the last show,he also ended up with the high point in the lower level.Great start of his showing career.
Finally will come with,but only to school.He will do his first Grand Prix,the last weekend of March @ the Festival of Horses,in San Juan Capistrano.A Cornerstone show.I'm almost there!
Basquewille is the real fun part of this show. He will be ridden of a para rider:Breanna.
My beautiful Grand Prix horse,who is now 21 will hopefully take her to victory,and he will be so proud to be out again! After I retired him from the GP circuit,anna rode him in PSG and INt 1.
Since then he is teaching my students the beauty of dressage, home @ Mill Creek> And now,he will go again.It will be so much fun,and I hope he will be proud! Breanna doesn't know him,she will ride him for the first time this Saturday.It is like a blind date!
Anna Dahlberg will not only take care of me and my horses...She is also bringing her own 5 year old gelding Lourdes.He did so well in the January show,and is ready to do it again. So cross your fingers for Breanna Anna and Me...we will keep you posted.
Mette Rosencrantz

Los Angeles Mid Winter dressage show

Really great start of the season for Mette and her horses at the Mid winter dressage show in Los Angeles.
Mette took her beautiful 5 year old gelding, Hertzregent out for his very first show. He started of his show career in the best way possible with three blue ribbons by winning all his tests with great scores in the 70''s. Mette was very pleased with him how well he showed of and performed in his test and also staying focused in this environment. She is really excited for his future with his great quality as a dressage horse.

Mette also showed Anne Solbraekke's horse Moosegards Rico in the open Prix St George and they won their first show together with 71%. This was a very large class with two CDI judges so Mette was very happy with their victory.

Mette's assistance Anna Dahlberg showed Lisa McDowell's approved PRE stallion Hielo Mor in second level and did really well. Mette's two students Tracy and Margie also showed their horses and both of them got blue ribbons in their forth and second level tests.

CDS High point champions

Congratulations to Mette and her horse Taison, the CDS 2011 High point reserve Champions in Intermediare II open division in LA chapter!
Also special congratulations to Mette's student Adrienne Bessey and her horse Winston Churchill, the CDS High point Champions in Intermediare I Amature, LA chapter!

Congratulations Anna and Lourdes!!

Congratulations to Mette's assistant Anna Dahlberg and her horse Lourdes who were the High point winners at the LAEC Mid Winter dressage show in Burbank January 28-29!

Lourdes is a 5 year old Swedish warmblood gelding owned by Anna and bred by her parents in Sweden. This was Lourdes very first show and he showed great quality which gave them the highest score of the show with an 77.4%!
This was a great kick off for their show career together and we wish them the best of luck in the future!

Great weekend for Mette's students

There were lots of mixed feelings over the last weekend. Mette was supposed to have gone to the show at LAEC together with some of her students. Unfortunately Mette had to go home to Sweden since her mom got very ill. Mette is very close to her mom and its very hard to be so far away when anything like this happens. So of course it was very important for Mette to go home to visit and be with her mom. This will also explain if any of you didnt get respond on your emails right away.
As of now Mette's mom is getting better and we all give her our best wishes.

Mette was very excited to have taken Finally out for the first time of the season and also her new young horse Regent together with Anne Solbraekkes two nice horses. Instead Mette is now planning to take them all out at the next show in LA in the end of the month.

Even though Mette didnt go, her students still went. Anna Dahlberg, her assistant, took her own young horse Lourdes out for the first time and they were very successful. Anna and Lourdes earned a score of 77,4%!! This made them High point champions of the show! Congratulations!

Anna also competed Lisa McDowell's approved PRE stallion Hielo Mor and received their highest score of almost 71%.
Mette's other students: Tracy rode her horse Piet in 4th level, Adrienne her horse Winston in PSG and I1, Margie her horse Dresden in 2nd level and Veronica with Apollo rode as Junior rider. Everyone did really well and Team Mette ended up with lots of blue ribbons!

What was the most fun about the show, except the successful rides, was the great teamwork between everyone. Mette was very proud of all her students and was cheering everyone on from Sweden even though she couldn't be there in person. She is extremely happy to have such great clients and we are all very happy to be riding in her team! Thank you Mette for everything you do for us every day!

Mette, Finally and Anne Gribbons

At USET/USEF elite pre-Olympic games clinic in San Diego

Great start of 2012!

2012 has started of great! Everyone in Team Mette are very happy and thankful for all the nice horses that we have in the stable. They are all looking really good and we can’t wait to take them out for the coming show season.

Mette has now spent three month training with Steffen Peters in San Diego with Finally. Steffen is really a phenomenal rider and trainer. He is running his stable together with his wife Shannon Peters. Together they have lots of lovely horses and it’s a great atmosphere to be in. Everyone, including their hardworking grooms, has been super friendly and welcoming. Mette was really happy to get such great help. Finally has really stepped up a lot in his new work. His piaff and passage is fantastic and really soon he will have his one tempis set. It will be very exciting to see him in Grand Prix this season.
Mette will continue working with Steffen and will drive down to his place for lessons. For now Finally will mostly be stable at his own barn at Mill Creek since it’s a long drive to be going back and forth a lot and at the same time keep all the horses at home going now when the new show season is getting started.

Before Mette and Finally left San Diego for this time they participated for the second time in the USET/USEF elite pre-Olympic games clinic. The clinic took place at Steffen Peters beautiful farm. Steffen and his wife Shannon did a great job organizing the clinic and everyone was very well taken care of. There were again, many very nice and promising horses.
The format was slightly different from last time when the riders rode the first day with Anne Gribbons and Steffen Peters and for the second day they all rode through the Grand Prix test. This time the riders rode two days with Anne and Steffen where they spent a lot of time and focus on the different movements in the test. Mette really likes the combination with Anne and Steffen. You get the judge, the rider and the trainer’s point of view. . Mette was very happy with Finally who has improved a lot since last time.

As mentioned earlier we have lots of lovely horses at the stable and many of them are getting ready to show this coming weekend as the first show of the year. This time we are going to Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank.
Mette is taking her horses, including Regent, 5 years old, who she is showing for the first time. Mette is also showing Anne Solbraekke’s two horses Rico and Stravinsky in the open Prix St. George.
Mette’s assistant Anna Dahlberg is showing her own horse, also a 5 year old, for the first time and she is also showing Lisa Mc Dowell’s approved PRE stallion, Hielo Mor. Mette’s student Adrienne, Tracy and Margie are also coming with to show their own horses, so we have everything from young horses up to the higher levels at this coming weekend and we wish everyone best of luck!

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