Vayron and Daniel Bachmann Andersen training with Nathalie zu Sayn Wittgenstein - photo: H2R
Inspirational day
What´s going on out there on an ordinary grey February day?
Tuesday morning H2R was heading towards Jutland to visit Daniel Bachmann Andersen, just to see and feel what´s going on, at his home arena on an ordinary winter day.
I was definitely a busy day as Daniel´s trainer Nathalie zu Sayn Wittgenstein has been teaching from the very first in the morning, and they´ve still got four more horses to do before mid day.
The eyes from the ground
You clearly get the impression of their professional relationship, as it is not like a usual trainer/student lesson, but more like “I have the feeling when I do so, it could be a bit more” tells Daniels, and then Nathalie and Daniel pick up this part for their training session. And as Daniel tells, “there´s no need to ride all exercises for Nathalie, partly because she knows the horses quite well, and knows my plan with each horse, but also that I want to benefit from her eyes on the ground for more of my horses when she is here. Of course we do go more into details with ex. Zippo M.I. and Vayron as I bring both of them for Neumünster this weekend.”
Neumünster this weekend
“Vayron still need more experience at the bigger shows and for Neumünster this weekend he will do the national Grand Prix Tour, while I will bring Zippo M.I. for the World Cup.
Both horses develops very nicely now, and as they both very talented it is of course always fun to bring them for the bigger events.” (Zippo did his first international back in May 2022 and Vayron still only has done two internationals)."
Teaching the pro´s
Nathalie tell that she for both Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour and Daniel Bachmann Andersen is the eyes from the ground and really enjoy the sparring about their training. “I´m definitely not gonna learn them riding, but my job is to help with the details, and maybe give them some other tools to solve a specific problem in the daily training. For me it´s not about one way speak, but very much about knowing each other, and where I can ask them for more, in order to reach not only today´s goal for the training, but for sure also the long term goals” says Nathalie.