Wincento

Well I am going to begin this story not from the time that I actually bought this horse but from the time that he came to America. He came to America in October of '06 from Germany. He is a 3 year old black Hanoverian gelding out of weltmeyer. Christiane's mother (the assistant trainer at the barn that I used to ride at) travelled over with him on the plane and said that he had the sweetest face she had ever seen. Wincento stayed in LA for one day before he was transported to Christiane Noelting's Dressage Center in Vacaville CA. After he got there they gave him some time off to get used to being in America and well I guess there is no rush since he was just 3 years old. After they started putting him to work they realized that he was extremely talented. His first show was at Rancho Murietta ( he took first place in all of his classes except for the one where his german rider forgot the test and then could not understand what the judge was telling him!) Anyway to make a long story short I purchased Wincento about 2 months ago and have been driving from reno to Vacaville twice a week to take lessons. A few weeks ago we took him to Rancho Murietta to compete against the other top four year olds in the state but unfortunately he got a stone bruise on the first day and was unable to compete. He is now resting and we arent even going to try riding him for another two weeks. We have started giving him farriers formula because his hooves seem to be soft and are having a little bit of trouble adapting to America's harder ground.