Home Company Products New Products News Endorsements Research Contact Us Links	Click here for our archived news TRM NEWS – AUTUMN 2006 TRM INTERMEDIARY II DRESSAGE CHAMPIONSHIP Almost 350 competitors including the country’s finest riders gathered in Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, UK for the finale of the summer dressage season. The 2006 Blue Waters National Dressage Championships, which runs from 14-17 September is the biggest show in the British calendar. It is one of the few shows in the calendar where the performances of the UK’s top riders can be enjoyed alongside the star horses and riders of the future. TRM supported the championships by sponsoring the Intermediary II title which Hampshire-based freelance trainer Jodie Lister and her 11-year-old 16.2.hh Dutch-bred gelding Nicky won. Jodie, who trains with Jennie Loriston-Clarke and who has brought the 11year old Nicky up through the ranks since a three year old said: “He tries his heart out and has exceeded all my expectations. We won the elementary title here in 2001, but I never dreamt we would win at this level.” “This is our first season in the big tour, we just enjoy taking part in that class,” she said. The National Dressage Champion of the show was Sandy Phillips. This is her first time gaining the title. Sandy’s success was achieved by gaining the highest combined scores from the grand prix and grand prix freestyle during the 2006 Blue Waters National Dressage Championships TRM ATTRACTS STRONG INTEREST AT BEVA. One of the highlights of any scientific association’s calendar is the annual Congress, and the 2006 BEVA (British Equine Veterinary Association) Congress proved to be a spectacular success. Located in the ICC Birmingham, a fantastic venue from which to host possibly the best equine congress in the world, it ran from the 13th through the 16th of September under the banner ‘’Putting Science into Practice.’’ A great combination of cutting edge science, clear easy-to-follow sessions on diagnostic and treatment techniques in practice, and highly charged interactive panel sessions were a great success, and a tribute to programme organiser Mark Hillyer. TRM SPONSORED DRESSAGE RIDER The 2006 Pikeur Trophy Finals, were held at the Horse Event in Hooge Mierde the Netherlands in mid September. To win the 2006 Pikeur Trophy, the results of the semi finals, which were held in Wiekevorst, Belgium, in August and the results of the Horse Event Finals were added and averaged. The 2006 Pikeur Finals came to a conclusion with a Small tour Kur to Music finals that was won by TRM sponsored rider Moniek van Dijk on Now I’m Here. Van Dijk scored 70.30% and beat Thamar Zweistra and Roumanda with a minimal point difference of 70.25%. However in the overall championship Thamar Zweistra took the lead with 70.15% and won the 2006 Pikeur Trophy. Moniek van Dijk finished second.  The competition judge Jan Peters commented “Moniek is technically very correct and showed good traversal movements”. TRM “TRAINER OF THE QUARTER” In Autumn 2006 the TRM Trainer of the quarter was won by Freddie Head for the win of Marchand d’Or in the Group One Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville. A three-time Arc-winning jockey he gave up the saddle for the programme book in 1997. Head had taken his career training total to almost 200 successes , before he finally got off the mark in Group 1 company in the six and a half furlong Prix Maurice de Gheest. Marchand d’Or began his 2006 campaign with a spectacular victory, at odds of 29-1, in a minor contest at Compiegne in March, and has barely looked back since. He immediately stepped up to a listed event, and found only the subsequent Prix Jean Prat winner, Stormy River, too strong in the Prix Djebel, but made him fight all the way to the line to register a narrow success. A repeat of that form made a stakes success a formality, and it was duly achieved in the Prix Pont-Neuf before Marchand d’Or took the step up to Group races in his rapid stride, showing striking speed to get across from his outside stall and make every yard of the running in the Prix de la Port Maillot. His remorseless rise to the summit stalled temporarily in the Prix de Ris-Orangis, where he was taken on for the lead, but a change to waiting tactics paid dividends in the Maurice de Gheest, as the ‘’orange tornado’’ ( as has been dubbed in the local press thanks to the hue to the Giral silks) stormed home for a clearcut victory.
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