He was just super, and yes easy on the eyes! I was a bit misty-eyed as well when he teared up after finishing the course. Great ride. I LOVE Marius! Does anyone know his pedigree?? (TB X HOL) I think? But sire and dam?
yeah, ground jury!
N NO mistakes,like in Athens!:mad: after the four horses all had time penalties,:eek: the time was increased!:yes:
Beautiful! Fluid!
Did you notice that M’s boots were taped in the German colors?
They finally have the evening dressage from the first day up. Commentary is that Mairus is a Holsteiner and was born in 1994. So the grey guy is 14 years old.
Eileen
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He was just super, and yes easy on the eyes! I was a bit misty-eyed as well when he teared up after finishing the course. Great ride. I LOVE Marius! Does anyone know his pedigree?? (TB X HOL) I think? But sire and dam?[/QUOTE]
Thanks Fannie Mae.
If any of you are into Schutzhund, at the Masters tournament in June, the top prize out of the 50 best teams in the world, was won by: a German dentist!
Must be something in the flouride!
Snoopy!!
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and on an entirely superficial note…he is a very nice man and incredibly easy on the eyes.[/QUOTE]
Snoopy!!
I totally agree. ;):lol:
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It’s kind of a German tradition, or at least accepted that an amateur can still be a top class rider and not simply dismissed. Remember Reiner Klimke was an amateur – he was a practicing lawyer his entire riding career.[/QUOTE]
Ulla Salzberger is a lawyer, as is Isabelle Werth, but I don’t believe either of them practice law.
What’s also rather nice is that he was interviewed on German TV and told his employees (while on TV):
“Close the office, go eat some ice cream, you have a day off.”
Anschließend gab er am ZDF-Mikrofon den Angstellten seiner Zahnarztpraxis in Rendsburg spontag einen Tag frei: “Macht zu, esst ein Eis, ich geb’ euch frei.”
So how would an ammie make it to the olympics? Sponsors?
COTH has a picture of them jumping the corner at the Great Wall that is just fantastic. Everything looks so perfect, yes, down to the nationalized boots.
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I don’t know about Hinni, but I saw it upclose with a good friend in 2000, Sydney, German eventing team. She is a veterinarian with her own practice, and ONE horse that she took to the Olympics. She had very little sponsor money, some help from the German Riding Federation, and mostly 40K Euro into it of her own money. She simply said “this chance only presents itself once in a lifetime”. She also did very well, but it was tremendously expensive (had to pay a vet to take over her clinic for 6 weeks, etc). That’s how ammies do it, and I really think that’s how it should be at the Olympics. Wishful thinking though …
I believe Hinrich has single handedly done more to improve the image of dentists than all of the dental association public service annnouncements in history…
I suppose he must still have significant help though, unless conditioning practises have changed a lot, don’t event horses competing at that level get exercised more than once a day? (not that this detracts from his success one iota)
I don’t know about Hinrich, but I remember reading that Dr. Klimke had his office near his home/barn, and would go home and lunch and ride two or three horses. The grooms had them ready to go and he would climb on, then he would go back to the office. And of course ride after he finished working.
He was a very successful and respected transactional lawyer on top of being such an internationally revered rider. Pretty amazing.
Of course, you have to remember that horses are a much more central part of the German way of life, and the German culture respects riders much more, than in the U.S. or almost any other country. It is easier in many respects to arrange things to accomodate an amateur there than it is here. That is, you can have your office near your barn, and your patients/clients/employer will respect that you have something important to do.
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I don’t know about Hinrich, but I remember reading that Dr. Klimke had his office near his home/barn, and would go home and lunch and ride two or three horses. The grooms had them ready to go and he would climb on, then he would go back to the office. And of course ride after he finished working.
He was a very successful and respected transactional lawyer on top of being such an internationally revered rider. Pretty amazing.
Of course, you have to remember that horses are a much more central part of the German way of life, and the German culture respects riders much more, than in the U.S. or almost any other country. It is easier in many respects to arrange things to accomodate an amateur there than it is here. That is, you can have your office near your barn, and your patients/clients/employer will respect that you have something important to do.[/QUOTE]
In Europe, the work culture/ethic is completely different. People actually take lunch breaks – long ones – and have shorter work days and ample vacation time. In France, for example, people are generally out of the office the entire month of August. It is a lot easier to balance outside interests.
What a lovely round! That horse has the kindest look on his face.
And I actually enjoyed the commentary–it was fun trying to understand as much of it as I could.
When I was little there was a toothpaste whose “hero” battled “Mr. Tooth Decay” in TV commercials. Mr. Tooth Decay was a dark grey ugly character. Watching this round, I couldn’t help thinking how Hinrich Romeike looked like the hero of a commercial about dentists! Just so bright and sparkling white!
Looking forward to seeing more of him and Marius!
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In Europe, the work culture/ethic is completely different. People actually take lunch breaks – long ones – and have shorter work days and ample vacation time. In France, for example, people are generally out of the office the entire month of August. It is a lot easier to balance outside interests.[/QUOTE]
Believe me, I am reminded of that every August when we can never get anything done with our European clients or cases. (I practice international arbitration.) We just mark August off the calendar – unfortunately, our clients still expect us to be here and working. 
Wow! Now there’s a dentist I wouldn’t mind being drilled by! :lol:
