DressageDaily: Dr. Cesar Parra Makes Debut with Galant Du Serein at Dressage at the National

Sunday November 30, 2003

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Dr. Cesar Parra Makes Debut with Galant Du Serein

Cesar Parra on Galant Dr. Cesar Parra, 40, of Whitehouse Station, NJ and Jupiter, FL, riding Galant du Serein owned by Anne Whitten won the Intermediaire II class with a score of 62.317%. Parra said that his goal at the show with the nine-year-old Selle Francais stallion was to become a pair. “He’s the one that bucked me off at Devon,” Parra said with a smile. “Wellington is Wellington – we’ve got ponies, we’ve got jumpers, everything, so my idea here was not so much to come and show off to win, it was more to dance together, that he listen to my aids – no whips, no half halts, just a nice pleasant ride so that he can start trusting me and I can trust him too.”

Parra, who has represented his native Colombia at the World Equestrian Games and Pan American Games, has had the ride for three months and views his new partner as an international caliber mount. Formerly shown at Grand Prix by Hubertus Schmidt of Germany, Galant du Serein placed second at Wiesbaden and won at Munich. “His scores were over 70, so I hope in three or four more months we’ll be up there,” said Parra. “This horse hopefully is going to the Olympics next year for Colombia. His strongest points are three good gaits, a world-class trot and excellent transitions in piaffe/passage.”

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