A Para Equestrian Win at Lamplight 2009 Cavalor/USEF Para-Equestrian Championships Makes Long Trip from Mexico City Worthwhile

At this weekend’s Dressage at Lamplight CDI/CPEDI 3*, a long journey from Mexico City paid off for a group of Mexican riders who came for the Para Equestrian competition and a chance for a first-ever CDI. Reni Castro-Baitenmann, of Mexico City, is getting her first taste of CDI competition, while her mother gets a shot to represent Mexico at the next World Equestrian Games to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.

Next year’s 2010 Alltech/FEI World Equestrian Games will include Para Equestrian competition. Getting to Lamplight has been one heck of a trip for Castro-Baitenmann, her mother Erika Baitenmann and fellow rider Enrique Palacios, traveled all the way from Mexico City to compete in the Lamplight CDI.

With six horses in tow, the three riders traveled 16 hours to reach the U.S.-Mexican border, had to spend four days at the border with the horses and then travel two more days to reach Lamplight. Joining them on their long journey were grooms, a veterinarian, a physical therapist and their trainer, Antonio Rivera. “We brought a really big team,” Castro-Baitenmann joked…

Read the entire story
Date: 5-16-2009
By: http://www.dressagedaily.com