Today we woke up to 25 degrees and snow. As usual, it bothered the people more than the horses. Hubertus rode Donneur again today (the third time) and if it is possible for a horse to grow up in 3 days, he did. What a huge difference in the amount of throughness and submission. The half passes were good from the beginning. Even the canter pirouettes were more controlled stride by stride. Certainly wonderful to see such improvement in a short time. Hubertus was very pleased and Donneur certainly looked like he belonged in a world class stable. After Hubertus gets back from doing a clinic in Australia, it will be Dolly's turn. Meanwhile, Dolly and I have been making steady improvement in all of her work as well, most of all keeping her round through all of her movements. News flash from the stable****** Hubertus is selling all of his Grand Prix horses including his World Championship mount Wansela Suerte, aka Winnie, and looking for a sponsor to but Fuerst Fabio, a 7 year old horse owned by Cesar Parra for 1 million Euros (approx. 1,300,000 US) Any takers? There is a show in Paderborn this weekend, about 20 minutes from here. Hubertus will be showing 2 horses and coaching several people. I went over tonight to watch the schooling and imagine my surprise to see the likes of Karin Rehbein, Isabelle Werth and Monika Theodorescu. How's that for a local horse show? Will go back tomorrow afternoon to watch the Grand Prix. Even after watching those riders school their horses, I am very sure that I am in the right place for training. All of the horses from Hubertus' stable are easy in the hand and swinging in their gaits and even in their piaffe steps and doing pirouettes easily. A lot of the other horses that I saw were impressive movers, but there wasn't the same level of cooperation from the horse. It will be interesting to watch the warm up and the Grand Prix.