{"id":36559,"date":"2017-08-18T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T00:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=36559"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:31:11","slug":"iah-rider-of-the-month-simone-pearce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2017\/08\/iah-rider-of-the-month-simone-pearce\/","title":{"rendered":"IAH rider of the month – Simone Pearce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ten for trot for Casablanca!<\/em><\/p>\n

For Simone Pearce, the last couple of weeks have been a rollercoaster. Twenty-six year old Simone starred at the World Young Dressage Horse Championships in Holland, scoring 10s on both her horses – riding the five-year-old mare, Casablanca, Simone was 4th in both the Qualifier and the Final, on the six-year-old gelding. Feodoro, she was 1st in the Qualifier and 7th in the Final.<\/p>\n

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Feodoro won the Six Year old Qualifier<\/em><\/p>\n

In an earlier interview, Simone described her base, Helgstrand Dressage in Denmark, as you drive to the end of the earth and then keep on driving, <\/em>I asked her, what does it do to your head, one week you are starring at a Worlds, the next, going around a 60 x 20 in the middle of nowhere…<\/p>\n

Simone laughs a lot!<\/p>\n

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“It’s definitely from one world to another, but on the other hand, I’m used to it now, it’s the lifestyle we live.”<\/p>\n

There’s no come down?<\/em><\/p>\n

“Yeah, especially when you live so far away from any sort of society, you definitely get a little bit flat, but at the same time, I’m setting new goals and I’m looking forward to the next challenge.”<\/p>\n

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I got the impression from the social media that there might have been a little retail therapy done between Holland and Denmark…<\/em><\/p>\n

That crazy laugh is happening again: “But of course! You cannot have any success or failure without supporting it with retail therapy.”<\/p>\n

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What are the new goals you have set yourself?<\/em><\/p>\n

“Now I have my Grand Prix horse, Wladimir, and I go to Germany next month to do my next international show with him, and I have the Danish Championships coming up with both the young horses, and then I’m really starting to think about next season – where I want to be, what I want to do? And what I have to do to get there…”<\/p>\n

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There has been a bit of shock horror, Casablanca has been sold – but that’s the life of a professional rider isn’t it?<\/em><\/p>\n

“All the good horses that I have had have been sold and it usually comes after a big success. Sadly the two, go hand-in-hand.”<\/p>\n

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Do you have a cunning plan to break this cycle and keep a really good horse for yourself?<\/em><\/p>\n

“I have an idea, but unfortunately not a plan in motion at the moment. I’m always trying and hoping, never stopping fighting to make that a possibility, a really good horse that I get to compete at the top!”<\/p>\n

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Young Dressage Horse star, Simone Pearce is back home in the wilds of Denmark, after her triumphs in Ermelo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4],"tags":[1732,1740],"class_list":["post-36559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-simone-pearce","tag-world-ypoung-dressage-horse-championships"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41795,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559\/revisions\/41795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}