Anna Kasprzak and Donnperignon at Equitour Aalborg - photo credit: horse2rider.com
News at Kasprzakdressage.com yesterday
A preventive removal of two teeth causes Anna to withdraw Pepe from the National Championships.
Pepe is not going to defend his silver medal from last year's national championships at Broholm next month. A routine check earlier this week revealed a broken tooth that had to be removed to avoid infection. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that Pepe had two additional bad teeth in his mouth that Anna and the veterinarian agreed to remove as a preventive action.
"We all know what toothache can do to ourselves, thus this was not a difficult decision. We find that it is better to give Pepe some time now without bits in his mouth, despite that it implies that he will miss the Danish Championships, than to leave the teeth in his mouth with the risk that he will get affected later this summer, and miss the chance of being submitted to the Danish team for the European Championships. A strategy that our national chef d'équipe, Kimi Nielsen, and coach, Princess Nathalie, fortunately supports," Anna explains.
Instead of Pepe, Anna will compete Rocky in the national championship, and she also plans to bring Q for the small tour classes and her 7-year-old mare, Romanova, for the M classes at Broholm.