QUARTETO DE TOP & JENNIFER SCHRADER-WILLIAMS, FEI Freestyle

Quarteto de Top and Jennifer Schrader-Williams scored 65.00 and took second place in the FEI Freestyle Test of Choice Open at the 63rd Annual Del Mar National Horse Show Dressage "Evening of Musical Freestyles" in Del Mar, California on Saturday April 26th 2008. The Test was FEI Freestyle, Intermediate 1 2006
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Early 2005 Jennifer began working with Jurgen Hoffmann of German Dressage down in San Diego, CA. The goal was to qualify for the Festival of Champions and make it to Gladstone, NJ for the small tour on Wistar and the Grand Prix with Phirst Solo, which she did. After three qualifiers Jennifer, Solo and Wistar qualified second in the GP and ninth on the I-1 list. Then Solo and Wistar were shipped via Fed Ex back east (Jennifer flew as their caretaker) where they finished ninth in the GP and fifth in the I-1 after three days of fierce competition. Jennifer said of the event, "This was an amazing year for me to come with these two fantastic horses. They worked incredibly hard for me and they teach me something new every day. I can say that I feel extremely motivated to work on what I can do better for next year and to continue to learn from my successes and mistakes."

After Gladstone Jennifer and Charlene decided to retire the beautiful Solo from High Performance competition. Now at seventeen years old she needed a lighter work schedule but was still feeling healthy, sound, and fit and wanted to keep working. So a wonderful woman named Paula Helm was deemed the perfect fit and continues to work and compete Solo today at the Prix St. George and Intermediare one level. In fact in her first outing at Prix St. George she earned her silver medal under Jennifer's tutelage.


In 2006 Jennifer and Wistar's goal was to go down to California and qualify for the newly developed Brentina Cup. This was a program for the top eight horse/rider combinations that were age 26 and under and competing at the I-2 level. Again they trained with Jurgen Hoffmann and also received instruction from Klaus Balkenhaul at all of the USET training sessions. They flew back to Gladstone, NJ for the Festival of Champions and successfully finished fourth. About Wistar Jennifer says, "I am truly honored to have gotten the chance to ride the horse of my lifetime at such a young age. I will probably never have a horse as special as he is. Charlene is an incredible breeder!"

Currently Jennifer is competing two of Summervale Farm's top horses. She currently clinics with Janet Brown-Foy and Conrad Schumacher and works with Debbie McDonald and Krissy Harrison while in California. Jennifer and Wistar will be working hard to reach Grand Prix for 2007 and his young son Warado will compete in the first and second level tests. She will be heading down to California in the early spring of 2007 and compete locally the rest of the season.

Her plans for the future? "To represent the United States in International competition. My ultimate goal would be to ride in the "Olympic Games" and I plan to spend my life working very hard towards that."
Websites:
http://www.delmarnational.com/
http://www.summervalefarm.com/

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• Musical

[QueenBeatlesWings]

Dressage is so beautiful- its the best kind of dancing- where you're truly connected to your partner- the horse

[crazyimagination]

I agree with that but not in the harsh way :D

[akmcentyre]

I groom for Jennifer and Quarteto was a last minute ride. They only practiced the freestyle once before this. He is a super little stallion and Jen rides beautifully.

[boadicea1]

Saw a pic of this horse on the Northwest Andalusian Horse Assoc site, and found this video. What a beautiful ride and stunning horse. Honestly after those changes, I wanted to pet him too!

[LilMissDressage]

AMAZING! and great choice of music.... has really really reaching and uphill flying changes. Ive never seen anything like them.

But at 3:30 she pats her horse, (When starting extended walk) she isnt supposed to do that.

[MystSilverDragon]

Xburning you sound like a rated judge are you> :) hehe

[XburningontheinsideX]

very nice... but I think that on the parts where the gait isn't collected, there could be a little more impulsion... But this is one of the best rides I've seen

[Irridescent]

Aw, one of my life dreams is to ride a freestyle routine to one of the songs from Spirit, and she already did it! I really like Rain though, it gives me goosebumps.

[MystSilverDragon]

That, was an excellent performance!

Much applause!!

-Be Blessed :)