Maxima Bella & Sandra Sysojeva - photo: H2R

The story about the young super mare Maxima Bella and her rider and owner Sandra Sysojeva

During Horses & Dreams 2024 in Hagen H2R caught international rider Sandra Sysojeva for a chat about her super mare Maxima Bella. Sandra is from Lithuania where she also is based, but competing for Poland.

Sandra and her just 8 year old Maxima Bella entered the international Grand Prix scene back in February.

A few of the quotes from Sandra during our chat:

You can get a good horse one time in your life usually you don’t get it, I’m lucky that I bought it.

The riding comes more from thinking, if somebody ask how I taught piaffe and passage, it just came.

When you train alone sometimes it can be that you ride to much, I always have this rule, every time do it like once, maximum repeat it because you can really enjoy the passage and piaffe.

At 6 years she was so hot, how would I do a flying change. I will never do flying changes. I started with normal single flying changes. I sent her (Dominika) a video after two weeks she was doing one by one.

Here below you can listen to our chat where we also were joined by Dominika Krasko (friend/groom/trainer etc.)