Zackery and Henriette Andersen - photo credit: Kevin Sparrow
Three starts at small tour level, 72%, 77% and lately 81%!
Latest post at Henriette Andersens Facebook page says Dream Machine. H2R was of course curious to get to know a little bit more about the story behind this Dream Machine, as I’ve already heard a few years back “my wife has a fantastic young horse by Blue Hors Zack”, told by Henriette´s husband Danish international rider Ulrik Mølgaard.
The story about “George”
“He is bred by Nicky Golding here in UK, who has been a client of ours for many years. Zackery is born in 2011 by Blue Hors Zack out of a Obelisk mare, and we had him since he was two years old and put in the field with another two year old we bred ourselves. We kind of forgot about them and when we decided it was time to back them they were 4 instead of 3. . . . time flies 😊. In hindsight I think that was great as he is a big horse and given extra time to mature.
He did two competitions end of 2018 Medium level, and then plan was to get proper going 2019, but last year was a bit of a write off for us due to bad illness in the family and a lot of travelling forwards and back to Denmark.
This year has then been another semi write off due to COVID, but at least we have had time to train and has now come out at Prix St. Georg with great help from Carl Hester who describes him as “Perfect” and “A future International star”.
He really is a dream horse; paces, looks and temperament to die for. He is very sensitive and always thinks forward, which makes the piaff and passage work quite easy.
The plan is that he will do some more small tour classes this year, maybe an international if anything is happening, and then slowly step up to Grand Prix next year”, says Henriette.