French woman on a mission. Foto: A life with horses
She participates internationally at Grand Prix dressage level and in addition to this leaves show spectators astounded by showing her competition horse with only a simple cord.
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Her most well-known YouTube video „Grand Prix dressage Movements with a simple cord“ shows Alizée and her horse Mistral during their very first attempt at using only a simple cord, that was 2014. „You can see it in the video after the first pirouette: me grinning, because I didn’t know whether it would work already.”
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stallions are her main actors: Lusitano Mistral and his son Sultan.
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years is the time she spent riding internationally at Grand Prix level, “and then I thought about what else I could do.” No bit, no saddle – she had tried all that already. So: bye-bye to the remaining head piece.
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At the European Championships 2013 in Arezzo Alizée Froment lead the French pony team to their best result so far: they took fifth place. „My pony riders are wonderful, they are a real team, they are happy about their rides and share the excitement with the others.“
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months she traveled with her mother through India when she was a child and she spent another 6 months on the Virgin Islands.
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years was the age when she switched from jumping to dressage.
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hours per week is the time she spends in all kinds of countries to teach: Moscow, Lausanne, Malmö, Chicago, for example.
2012
she presented Di Magic at the World Championships of Young Horses in Verden vor and won the second qualification. Di Magic took fifth place overall.
Photo: Marianne Schwöbel
