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on July 5, 1991. The race was widely followed by the
English and European Press, and was considered an Olympic Qualifying event. In a daily double, she also won the Grand Prix Special in Goodwood that year. She was a law student at the time. In the Intermediarie 1, she again rode to victory, this
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England's Hermes International Meeting the following year and won the K Group Tokyo Grand Prix at Goodwood on May 1, 1992, but she immediately removed herself from competition after
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Her dressage trainers included the renowned Heinz
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Dressage consists of a series of 39 exercises demonstrating how well the rider communicates with the horse. Included exercises are the walk, trot, and canter, as well as having the horse walk backwards, and weave through a pre-determined serpentine course. Four judges score the maneuvers on a
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the riders, and to carry themselves as well in a more graceful, and balanced manner. Dressage means "training", and it teaches a horse to be safer to ride, more responsive to the rider, and more obedient.
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