Bettina Drummond has been reunited with her teacher after a battle with cancer. Rest in peace Bettina - or in the most glorious of heavenly haute ecole establishments, teaching all our beloved horses to piaffe and capriole at the rainbow bridge.
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A lovely tribute
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I am sad to hear this. I so enjoyed her interviews with Wendy Murdoch. May need to re-watch.
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Thank you for sharing those - I will listen. I found this bio and wow, talk about a remarkable life. Gone at 62 and way way too early and not fair at all.
https://www.bettinadrummond.com/about/
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Thank-you for this essay link! Really enjoyed reading it.
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Oh no 
I hadn’t seen her in at least 20 years but I loved clinicing with her. She had such a feel for what each horse and rider were experiencing. And so kind and respectful to us rag-tag riders with our backyard horses.
May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest 
RIP Bettina
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And this ride wells me up inside. The whole scene - their relaxation and movement together. The flow, the trust. There was no room for error with all those people sitting there just inches away.
It starts around the 3:40 mark.
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Where & What was that?!?
The sound on the vid didn’t let me hear the intro.
But YES! Amazing performance.
& Proved to me horses don’t hear music as we do. The acoustics in that space made me cringe.
Many years ago I was at a Cavallia-type performance in Brooklyn (BAMA sponsored) & one segment had Korean music.
The most dissonant stuff I’d ever heard 
But the horses at liberty could not have cared less. Even earpuffs couldn’t deaden that cacaphony!
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I don’t know the location but sure was congested and intense looking. I liked the music on this - ALOT - I really can’t say why. Felt like Annie Lennox but don’t think it was. I listened again and yes, the acoustics were not good.
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Music was Grace Jones, who I like.
But not in that setting 
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This performance was done at the awards dinner when Bettina was awarded the 2012 Action Maverick Award by the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics in Brooklyn.
“The STREB’s Action Maverick Award Benefit celebrates the heroes who inspire us, and serves as our signature fundraising event, helping us to pursue our mission and sustain our entire organization.”
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It was all Korean music. It was the spectacle, “Eclipse” put on in 1997 by Bartabas for the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a tent down by Battery Park…in the shadow of the Twin Towers.
https://youtu.be/x8vFvDEOYX8
Bartabas runs the equestrian exhibitions done at Versailles.
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No room for a swishing tail there! That would be dangerous.
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That’s it!
At least my aging memory got part of it right 
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Does anyone know if there is someone who studied with her that is carrying on the tradition?
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