I’m looking for the name that this horse was shown under. For a recap of my search so far, please see the thread on the H/J forum.
TL/DR 2009 17.2 Hannoverian gelding Gaijin FR was imported in 2017 and was never registered with USEF under that name or with his microchip number. My trainer bought him out of a goat pasture where he had been living and he is now a school horse.
He was so fancy back in the day, it seems impossible that he was not shown, but might have been registered under a different name—but what? Before his “retirement” his junior owner boarded at an eventing barn in Malibu. This is a still from a video taken at that facility. Look familiar?
My trainer has no interest in contacting the previous owner, but would just like to see what he’s done.
He’s a special guy. The German rider in his videos is Joachim Winter, director of the Hannoverian state stud. He competed Gaijin in his free time.
https://www.rimondo.com/en/pedigree/934272/gaijin-fr
